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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Ministry of Education publishes OER ordinance | Iniciativa EA - 0 views

  • that determines that any educational resources paid for by the Ministry, which is to be used for basic education (K-12) should be open educational resources, giving permissions for anyone to “access, use, adapt and distribute at no cost”. It further emphasises the importance of open formats and standards whenever technically viable
  • open licenses for all educational resources produced through the Open University of Brazil program
  • open license for all educational material in a nationwide robotics for education purchase and the use of an open license (for some resources) in the nationwide textbook purchase program
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  • Open Education Initiative (OEI) in partnership with dedicated public servants
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • if districts follow this path, the discoverability problem may never be solved, a
  • 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.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Summary of the second edition EduCoop - Open Educational Resources Policy in Europe - 0 views

  • EduCoop – Open Education Cooperative
  • openness means cooperation, process, diversity, readiness for change, trust, courage and a willingness to experience something new
  • During last year’s pilot edition, we have worked with math teachers
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  • cooperation model for creating high-quality open educational resources (OER)
  • lack of materials for home room is a huge problem
  • We invited 14 teachers to participate in the project. They had absolute freedom when it came to the topics they covered or how they worked
  • the materials were to be made in groups and become open educational resources
  • During four meetings and additional remote collaboration they fine-tuned their topic and got to know design methods and technical solutions, all while learning about novelties from the education world
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration - 0 views

  • Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
  • We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning.
  • They are also planting the seeds of a new pedagogy where educators and learners create, shape and evolve knowledge together, deepening their skills and understanding as they go.
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  • This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet.
  • They also nourish the kind of participatory culture of learning, creating, sharing and cooperation that rapidly changing knowledge societies need.
  • open education is not limited to just open educational resources
  • open technologies
  • new approaches to assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Finnish Textbook Hackathon made history: School Mathematics book born in a weekend - Yo... - 0 views

  • 30.09.2012
  • Finnish mathematics students, teachers and researchers
  • the last weekend of September, producing an open-license High School Mathematics book in a three-day booksprint, for the first time in the world
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  • over hundred pages and three sections
  • manuals for open-source computer programs.
  • As far as as is known, this was the first one-weekend schoolbook sprint in the world
  • openness and transparency
  • Creative Commons license
  • Over 30 math teachers, researchers and students took part in the project, but representatives of the end users were also present
  • Additional Information: vesa.linja-aho@metropolia.fi. Tel + 358 40 487 0869
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    Im September 2012 erstellte eine Gruppe von 30 Personen an einem Wochenende in einem "schoolbook sprint" ein komplettes Mathematik-Schulbuch. Die Gruppe bestand aus Lehrern, Studierenden und Wissenschaftlern. Das Buch umfasst gut 100 Seiten und wurde unter einer CC BY-Lizenz veröffentlicht.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

An OpenEd Conference Update - 0 views

  • In 2003 I invited a small group of about forty people interested in open content and open courseware to Logan, Utah. Since then, this annual meeting has grown year after year to where we are today – 850 people
  • And so the time has come for us to reconsider, as a community, how we wish to organize ourselves, learn from each other, and collaborate with one another
  • this year’s Open Education Conference is the last I plan to organize. As of this Friday afternoon the conference will be adjourned indefinitely. This
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  • it’s a call to reset and start over
  • I expect this will be a difficult, messy, and at times even painful process. But most things worth doing are.
joerdis

Open Pathways to Student Success: Academic Library Partnerships for Open Educational Re... - 0 views

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    This paper explores the current state of open educational resources (OER) including notable library-lead and multi-institutional programs. The potential for OER and affordable course material creation and adoption programs to impact student retention and persistence is examined. Potential additional partnerships and future directions for library-lead programs are discussed as well as the framework necessary for assessing the impact of library-lead OER initiatives.
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

'Dark reuse': an empirical study of teachers' OER engagement - Open Research Online - 0 views

  • Beaven, Tita (2018). ‘Dark reuse’: an empirical study of teachers’ OER engagement. Open Praxis, 10(4) pp. 377–391
  • no empirical research has yet investigated whether teachers’ engagement with OER follows this model; evidence from OER repository analytics suggests not
  • through observation of lesson preparations, the paper’s contribution is to validate the OER lifecycle model and provide evidence of ‘dark reuse’.
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  • sophisticated models that embrace the complexity of OER ecosystems are needed
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