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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

OER Festival in Berlin - How An Open Event Inspires Open Educational Activities in Germ... - 0 views

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OER OERde16

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 18 Mar 16 - Cached
  • March 17, 2016
  • Overall and to sum up this brief review, it was an inspiring OER event given the diversity of formats and the nicely orchestrated opportunities for discussions. There are exciting times ahead of us and it is in the hands of all of us to keep OER going.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources - Market Brief - 0 views

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OER amazon

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 14 Feb 16 - Cached
  • Feb. 14, 2016
  • Amazon Education is working on a new platform that will allow schools to upload, manage, share, and discover open education resources from a home page that in some ways resembles the one shoppers are accustomed to accessing on the massive online retailer’s website.
  • to be called Amazon Inspire
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  • during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association
  • The new platform is in beta testing now, and is scheduled to be released publicly within the next two to three months
  • Users of the site will be able to add ratings and reviews, and to receive recommendations based on their previous selections
  • Educators will be able to curate open resources, self-publish material they have developed, and put a school’s entire digital library that is open and freely available online
  • select categories to modify their searches for open resources, much the way shoppers on Amazon today can choose categories to filter their searches
  • a completely free, open platform for free resources.
  • This piece we have committed to making absolutely free forever. We’re not going to lock the content up. We promised we won’t put a pay wall in front of it.
  • how it will achieve financial sustainability for Amazon Inspire, he said it could be in connecting users to books they might want to buy
  • or in using Amazon’s capabilities in self-publishing books
  • a lesson one of his educators uploaded in testing requires certain materials like batteries and coils
  • will be assigned metadata tags identified through the Learning Registry, a federally sponsored, online information-sharing network
  • “All of these groups–Amazon, Microsoft, Edmodo–they’re publishing their platforms on top of the Learning Registry,”
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Open Education 2030 - 1 views

blogs.ec.europa.eu/openeducation2030

OER OpenEducation

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 14 Mar 13 - Cached
  • There is a general agreement that openness has the potential to widen access to education and to improve, amongst others, cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning
  • the European Commission announced a new initiative on “Opening-up Education” to be launched mid-2013.
  • visionary papers and imaginative scenarios on how Open Education in 2030 in Europe
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  • School Education (Submission deadline: 28 April 2013)
  • normative or descriptive, idealistic or provocative, critical or imaginary, reflective or polemic, imaginative or concrete, comprehensive or selective, general or specific. They should be both inspiring and scientifically sound.
  • three dedicated foresight workshops
  • Seville on: (a) 29-30 April 2013 (Lifelong Learning) (b) 28-29 May 2013 (School Education)
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Open Educational Ideas - Annual barcamps on OER - How an open event inspires open educa... - 0 views

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OERcamp

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 03 Mar 16 - Cached
  • Mar 02, 2016
  • good practices that demonstrate such an apporach
  • the annual unconferences called “OERCamps” established a growing grassroot community for open educational resources (OER) in Germany
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

https://www.edutopia.org/article/uncertain-future-oer - 0 views

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OER Repository

shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 04 Jun 18 - No Cached
  • Open educational resources (OER) have been on the cusp of arriving for more than 15 years, but somehow they never do. So what’s the holdup?
  • Teachers Aren’t Onboard—With Good Reason
  • Back in 2012, when OER were more than a decade old,
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      the IDEA of OER was 10 years old
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  • Unlike Wikipedia, Yelp, and Airbnb, most OER websites have failed to attract a large and active audience
  • search OER Commons, Curriki, Amazon Inspire, OpenEd, or any number of other open-source education sites.
  • if districts follow this path, the discoverability problem may never be solved, a
  • products that allow users to access OER as well as proprietary content
  • Teachers Pay Teachers, which has been around since 2006, paid out about $100 million across the 3 million resources on the site in 2017
  • So a vital aspect of the sharing economy—the idea that everyone is a content creator—does not seem to be panning out for OER.
  • So will we ever get to a Wikipedia-type model of teaching resources,
  • After nearly two decades, it’s still too soon to tell when, how—or even if—OER’s moment will arrive for K–12 education.
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