Learning Libraries OER Resources 
Hapara
AUGUST 8, 2022
Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Types of OER you can develop for K-12.
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 31, 2022
This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”
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Edsurge
JANUARY 4, 2018
But who makes the pitch for free or low-cost alternatives to textbooks known as OER, or open educational resources? Increasingly, the answer is the campus library. She also tracks how well OER is working in the courses that use them, and tallies up how much money the efforts are saving students.
Edsurge
AUGUST 4, 2022
In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, plans to start offering professional development services for faculty that can be bundled with its titles. In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively.
Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2020
Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It In the U.S.,
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 9, 2020
In this first bite-sized installment I’m going to address the major flaw in the OER definition provided as part of the recent UNESCO OER Recommendation. Accessing an educational resource. If traditional copyright protection prohibited no-cost access, libraries could not exist. Definition and Scope reads: 1.
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