Flood of Open Education Resources Challenges Educators

Open Education Resources provide cheaper textbook alternative

Apprendre à programmer permet aux enfants un nouveau rapport aux technologies: de consommateur interactif de manuels scolaires numérisés à la capacité de créer des ressources éducatives numériques et même des mini-jeux.

people loading their own music up to SoundCloud

own music projects, exchanging tunes and coding in the online community that has sprung up around it. 

massive advances in Open Educational Resources

the internet has become essential to our everyday life

one wonders about the relationships between scholarship, technology, and the academic institution that engendered that turn from printing materials to printing ideas.

Introduction to Sociology 2e

Users publish coursework, build portfolios or tinker with personal projects, for example.

Support for Creative Commons

content (or “learning resources”)

What is needed is an edit / design network – similar to the thousands who edit the pages of Wikipedia on a voluntary basis

Faculty Stipends for Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogy

BCcampus estimates that students have saved nearly $1 million dollars already on textbook costs thanks to open textbooks.

Open education is a means, a way of doing something; it isn’t something. That something is for individuals to arrive at however they want to get there–that’s the point of making it all “open.” I hope they share that awesomeness when they arrive at it, but they don’t have to.

Textbooks Out of Step With Scientists on Climate Change, Study Says

open educational resources

The subject librarians work closely with faculty to help them identify open educational resources that they can use instead of requiring students to purchase textbooks.

Encouraging students to curate their own content

if free textbooks or OER offer learners free access to good quality knowledge

The real problem with textbooks, though, is that focusing on them is focusing on content. When learning, and open education, should focus more on process (a conversation on this from a year ago across my blog, Jim Groom’s, Mike Caulfield’s and David Wiley’s).

“why textbooks?”

Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup

Open Education Resources (OERs) Primer: Introduction

Is That What We Meant?

Canada is unique in the world in that it is the only country whose national government has no authority in education;

Northern Virginia Community College’s Extended Learning Institute (ELI) and open courseware provider Lumen Learning announced a collaboration to publish 24 online college courses for two complete degree programs. All courses were developed for zero student cost using open educational resources (OER)

U Wisconsin Stout Gets Grant for Open Textbook Pilot

technology's ability to help us more richly collaborate with our students and more effectively share the fruit of those collaborations with the wider publics that our universities serve

By replacing a static textbook — or other stable learning material — with one that is openly licensed, faculty have the opportunity to create a new relationship between learners and the information they access in the course. Instead of thinking of knowledge as something students need to download into their brains, we start thinking of knowledge as something continuously created and revised.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Better Lesson: A Common Core Aligned OER

USD 501 teachers looking to replace science textbooks with Web-based instruction

This article included an estimate from the system that further backs up the $530 – $640 figures. [Hanley’s] rough estimate: As of a few years ago, learners at the 23-campus, 460,200-student university system were spending $300 million a year on course materials — about $651 per student per school year.

Open Education Handbook 2014

Resource Repository Network will create a resource graph of learning/training resources data from multiple sources and formats including live and dynamic data

Development of a common platform for learning resource delivery: developing a working version of the infrastructure that partners can use immediately to address their training needs. This includes data and information harvesting services, and data and information synchronization services in a common resource network marketplace.

e-learning technologies and standards: SCORM, LOM, IMS-LD, IMS-CC, IMS-QTI, IMS-CP, LDL, SLD

Open Education We believe that educational opportunities should be available to all learners. Creating an open education ecosystem involves making learning materials, data, and educational opportunities available without restrictions imposed by copyright laws, access barriers, or exclusive proprietary systems that lack interoperability and limit the free exchange of information.

“Instead of having one prescribed way to do things that comes from a textbook, kids can do things where they’re truly interested,” says Lori Secrist. “When they’re truly interested, they’re engaged. And when they’re engaged, they learn.”

On Campus: North Dakota University System to continue support for open textbook initiative

Discover, Search and Find

some kind of curated library

creation of an OER culture among faculty

One key barrier to this shift is the time and energy it takes to find new course materials and ensure they are high-quality.

U.S. Education Department Proposes Open Licensing Policy As Part of #GoOpen

The Coming of OERRelated to the enthusiasm for digital instructional resources,four-fifths (81percent) of the survey participants agreethat “Open Source textbooks/Open Education Resource(OER) content “will be an important source for instructional resources in five yea

At William & Mary, one way Swem Library is leading the way is by bringing open educational resources (OER) to the campus.  

Letter: Legislators should stand up for students

A&M University Libraries Working To Solve Problem Of Expensive Textbooks

U of M's Open Textbook Network reports student savings of $1.5 million from open textbooks

Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative

Of the two textbooks Mr. Bourget chose as replacements, one cost $76 and the other was free.

new textbook initiative

Open educational resources

OER Dynamic Search Engine

Finding OERs

long time curating these tomes

Technology is the only way to dramatically expand access to knowledge. Why should students be limited to a textbook that was printed two years ago, and maybe designed 10 years ago, when they could have access to the world's best and most up-to-date textbook?

He gave the example of digital textbooks which can be updated as an example of how online technology could be better than traditional methods.

College Textbooks: Do You Get What You Pay For?

dissatisfaction with curricula offered by commercial providers

OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.

taking advantage of free, "open source" textbooks.

To clarify not only to survey respondents, but also to raise awareness to the public, the report provides the definition of OER based on the Hewlett Foundation’s definition: “Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”

Expanding the learning landscape: what effects can open educational resources have on new learning spaces?

and taking advantage of free, “open source” textbooks.

OER - related data need to b e accessible and readable across multiple platforms.

Implementable standards

A services model, which yields revenue by providing professional development and lesson planning services for OER such as Expeditionary Learning

Even New 5 In the 2011 Babson survey, 59% of Chief Academic Officers at the higher ed level said they “agreed” or “strongly agr eed” with the statement that OER “would be much more useful if there was a single clearinghouse.” This pain point was also cited by K - 12 teachers and OER ecosystem participants in the 2012 BCG work. 11 OER: MAINST REAM ADOPTION AND EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS York City is printing thousands of copies of Expeditionary Learning’s curriculum for use around the district.

Expeditionary Learning

Until a common system is widespread, though, t his dearth of standards makes OER difficult to integrate into the learning management and student data systems used by schools and educators

Many other states only use educational materials when they come bundled with assessment items and pr ofessional development services ,

CK - 12

Utah’s Open High School

gain academic credit

Carnegie Mellon University’s Cognitive Tutor program has helped students complete Open Learning Initiative

OER university 4 is a growing partnership of like - minded institutions

resource challenges faced by public sc hool system s , as well as the appetite and interest in technology - driven solutions, present a unique opportunity

civic participation

“Open” refers to free access in addition to the legal rights to reuse, revi se, remix, and redistribute a resource

equal access to knowledge

standards adoption

, revis

educational lockbox,

State data showed more than 20 million downloads of material from the site as of early June, with a third of downloads initiated from outside New York as districts like Berkeley, California, adopt it.

international classification standards to the extent possible

revise, remix

And the Open Education Movement is not just about cost savings and easy access; it’s about participation and co-creation.

Robin DeRosa is professor of English and chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University, and she is also a consultant for the OER Ambassador Pilot at the University of New Hampshire. Recently named as an editor of Hybrid Pedagogy (a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology), in August 2015 she'll be be a Hybrid Pedagogy Fellow at the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her essay "Selling the Story: From Salem Village to Witch City" was published by the open uneducational resource The Revelator in 2011.

Jennifer Purrenhage from the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, has this to say about her team librarian, Jennifer Carroll: “She has jumped on several seeds I mentioned early on, and has sent me materials to consider for my courses — materials that I did not know existed, and are great candidates.

adequate and f airly distributed resources ,

pen educational resources ;

GNU license

Where can I find a list of free and openly licensed OER course(s) developed by VCCS faculty?

NESCO/COL a nd UNESCO Chairs in OE

equal access

Answer: a minimum of $80,000, more likely around $130,000.

By calling attention to itself as a textual presence (rather than a vehicle of linguistic reference), the typography turns the lines back into themselves, leading one to identify the “black riders” with their immediate typographical unfolding.

and student engagement

, an OpenStax College resource. This textbook has been created with several goals in mind: accessibility, customization,

This is actually the biggest conceptual hurdle that most people moving from print based publishing to digital publishing have to contend with. It is often very disconcerting for those who have designed for the rigid formats of print to make the transition to the fluid world of digital. And they are often disappointed because they have to give up their pixel (or point in the print world) control and surrender to the fluid layouts of digital that put the user, not the publisher, in control of the appearance of the content.

about 77.4 cents to the dollar goes to the publisher.

The closing exhortation was to resources, meaning money but also more than money. Open Modernisms has been very fortunate in the first instance with real money, with a legion of 5 funded student RAs at Fairleigh Dickinson, sponsorship from Douglas College, investment from the MVP, and making it all possible an Open Textbook Grant. But money can’t buy you love, nor can it buy you an anthology jam… The students buy in with their own labour to help prepare and proof the text using the Open Modernisms workflow, whether it will be extended into a critical edition or used as it stands. The idea is to use coffee and pizza to open that dialogue and keep the jam running on love of the job, because if students are creating their own savings on textbooks, it really is a free lunch.

These are opportunity costs, or the benefits you are giving up to spend your time instead reading this text. Another way to look at is as the value of foregone alternatives.

Open source technology, open access publication, open education have all had their successes, but none of these movements could fairly be described as having transformed practice.

5.4 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MOOCS

MOOC materials may be limited by copyright or time restrictions for re-use as open educational resources

Recent surveys and data, interviews with educators and industry officials, and K-12 companies' development of new products underscore the enduring, widespread demand for textbooks and other paper-based materials in the nation's schools.

The blurring line between books and the Internet: Hugh McGuire at