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25 novembre 2017

Ask the Administrator: Labeling OER Sections

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. At its core, it’s about disclosure. Students want to, and should, know which sections won’t require them to buy books.  That may sound petty, but given the reality of student basic needs that Sara Goldrick-Rab and others have documented, it isn’t. California is many things, but a low cost-of-living state it is not. For a student on the economic margins, the difference between a couple of OER sections and a couple of sections with $200 textbooks could be the difference between staying and dropping out. More...
25 novembre 2017

Open Access Without Tears - 2017 Edition

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/library_babel_fish_blog_header.jpgBy Barbara Fister. It's not that hard - and you don't have to count on commerical sites to share. More...
23 novembre 2017

A Big Publisher Embraces OER

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses. More...

23 novembre 2017

Openness and the Decline of the Textbook Author

HomeThe emerging model of openly licensed educational content makes pedagogical as well as financial sense for today’s higher education market, fostering inclusivity and knocking down the wall between writer and reader, writes Brian Jacobs. More...

22 novembre 2017

Open Invitation to contribute toward the Ljubljana OER Action Plan

Open Invitation to contribute toward the Ljubljana OER Action Plan
UNESCO, 2017/08/15
Cable Green writes by email "UNESCO has released a draft "OER Action Plan" and has asked for our comments and feedback. The draft OER Action Plan is available in English and French."  The recommendations are pbroken down into five major categories: capacity-building and usage; language and cultural issues; access; changing business models; and policy. More...

22 novembre 2017

Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects

Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects
Gema Santos-Hermosa, Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Ernest Abadal, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017/08/16
This study examines resources from 110 repositories. It should be clear that this post doesn't measure actual reuse, it measures only how suitable the resources are for reuse. Having said that, there are some issues with how the observations are presented (for example, licensing is divided between CC-by-NC-SA (42.4%) and "Any of the 6 CC licenses (27.1%)", which is an impossibility). But there are some interesting things. More...

22 novembre 2017

Learning through the Open Creation of Knowledge

Learning through the Open Creation of Knowledge
Allison Littlejohn, Little by Littlejohn, 2017/08/14
This is a quick read exploring the idea of students creating and organizing heir own learning. As Allison Littlejohn notes, "Some Massive Open Online Courses have been designed around every learner also acting as a teacher and bringing knowledge to the network." Students don't always follow present objectives. More...

21 novembre 2017

A Big Publisher Embraces OER

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. For years, big-time publishers have been skeptical of open educational resources, questioning their quality and durability. But one of those publishers, Cengage, is today announcing a new product line built around OER. Cengage predicts that the use of OER — free, adaptable educational course materials — could triple over the next five years. More...

21 novembre 2017

How Machine Learning Is Easing OER Pain Points

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. Algorithms can help faculty discover and select open educational resources for a course, map the concepts covered in a particular text, generate assessment questions and more. The basic definition of machine learning is that it allows a computer to learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. More...

21 novembre 2017

UM System encourages faculty to use more open educational resources

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. Beginning next week, professors will have more incentive to offer free or low-cost textbooks. As part of a University of Missouri System initiative on educational resources that are free to access online, the four campuses will be launching an incentive grant program next week. More...

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