Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 28, 2016

Above all else, this groundbreaking project demonstrated that an institution can openly share it’s core instructional resources without materially harming itself. Inspired by MIT’s example, hundreds of other institutions around the world began openly publishing the resources they created in support of their courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. Higher Education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources. Much to our surprise, over 1,500 people from around the world registered for the course — and, to date, are actively engaged in creating free, open resources for adult learners.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” There are fantastic learning resources out there of all breeds bringing different types of value to the learning process. ” The article poses three questions and answers them.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. The platform also offers a library of supplemental resources from third-party providers. million in investment to date.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From academic search engines that open doors to vast knowledge bases, to kid-safe search engines that ensure a secure online experience for our youngest learners, this post aims to provide a well-rounded resource for anyone involved in education. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) : A comprehensive database managed by the U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 17, 2017

May 17, 2017 In the last few weeks we shared with you a number of interesting free resources from OER Commons that you can use in your class for a wide variety of instructional materials (see.read more.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide. Those who call Open Education Resources “free” are misguided.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Ed-tech groups rally in support of federally-funded, open educational resources. In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Government National Action Plan.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. I spent most of my thinking time last week wondering about obstacles in the way of the ubiquitous adoption of OER in US higher education and how we might overcome them.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. Pearson agreed.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. Rather than a single book or set of books, most basal programs now include a number of materials to facilitate learning. In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

Annual survey outlines broadband, instructional materials, student data privacy as top among school IT leaders’ concerns. Broadband and network capacity is school technology leaders’ top priority, according to the results of an annual IT leadership survey from CoSN.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might now discover with their intuitive strategies. Curating OER.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. And we also were not looking at bringing in technology in any type of meaningful way.”

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 4, 2019

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) found that more states are providing guidance to help districts select and implement digital instructional materials. The post States Are Playing a Bigger Role in Digital Instruction, Survey Finds appeared first on Market Brief.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

I hold a PhD in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University. In calendar 2019, Lumen Learning directly supported over 250,000 students in using open educational resources. Another 75 million learners freely accessed the open educational resources on our website in 2019.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

School districts across the country are experimenting with “open” educational resources–and they’re getting strong encouragement from the Obama administration. ” Backers of open education resources often define them as materials released under licenses that allow for their free use, repurposing, and modification as users see fit.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Idaho and Pennsylvania discussed how state and district leadership support digital learning opportunities and implement digital materials. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

After all, schools are preparing them for their future careers, which will include using some aspect of online technology. They work closely with content providers to make sure that schools can access their resources as they need them with no waiting. Schools feel free to approach CEN when they need more bandwidth.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Albans City School (VT), SETDA’s 2018 Student Voices Award Winner, though, educators encourage the students to find places in their everyday work to incorporate digital resources, especially from their makerspace. Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Among other resources, it is a repository for professional development and digital student curriculum; student rosters, schedules, and demographics; and attendance and grades. Moreover, the system can accommodate any file type due to the interoperable nature of the platform and also uses a standard set of metadata to organize resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

. When technology is offered to schools free of charge, it always comes with the promise of improving teaching and learning. Today, the tradeoffs that school leaders and teachers face about technology — whether free or for a fee — are more complex and troubling. It also often comes with a catch. Related: Psst!

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. And 38 percent report that their institutions encourage faculty members to use open-resource content, compared with 33 percent in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Because there aren’t many alternatives, they did this despite concerns about the quality of materials. Photo: Jackie Mader. Now is the time of year when U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Also via Chalkbeat : “Black and white students score far apart on a new test of technology skills.” ” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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