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Barbara Lindsey

The Golden Ratio of OER « iterating toward openness - 0 views

  • many people caught up in the day-to-day vortex of teaching, advising, mentoring, and grading don’t have the spare time to problematize publisher-school power relations, realize the virtue of local control of curriculum materials, or fully appreciate the transformative benefits of transparency.
  • When teachers actively take advantage of the local control provided by OER licensing and engage in substantive adaptation / localization exercises, we can reasonably hypothesize an improvement in student performance.
  • Differences in cost need to be accounted for completely.
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  • The appropriate unit for this factor is probably percentage change in the organization’s curriculum spend.
  • That gives us a golden ratio of OER that looks something like: change in performance (as standard deviation) : change in money spent on curriculum (as percentage)
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