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

marketbrief.edweek.org/...-website-for-open-ed-resources 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,”
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Amazon startet Portal für (offene) Lernunterlagen und US-Bildungsministerium ... - 0 views

netzpolitik.org/...ungsministerium-fordert-goopen OER USA Schule OERpolicy Amazon GoOpen
shared by Juergen Plieninger on 01 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Juergen Plieninger on 01 Jul 16
     
    "Im Ergebnis ist vor allem der starke Fokus auf offene Lizenzen für Bildungsmaterialien bemerkenswert, der sich durch beide Initiativen zieht. Zumindest für die USA ist damit die Frage, ob sich OER in der Breite durchsetzen oder eine Nische bleiben werden, beantwortet."
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Digitale Lehrbücher: es bleibt viel zu tun… | Rudolf Mumenthaler's... - 0 views

ruedimumenthaler.ch/...hrbucher-es-bleibt-viel-zu-tun OER epub ebook
shared by Juergen Plieninger on 26 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Juergen Plieninger on 26 Jan 15
     
    Nennt Amazon, nennt Apple, nennt sie verfehlt, schildert EPUB 3 und bringt doch nicht den Begriff OER. Egal: zutreffende Beschreibung des Potentials, die hinter EPUB steckt.
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https://www.edutopia.org/article/uncertain-future-oer - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...uncertain-future-oer 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,
    • Jöran Muuß-Merholz
      Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 04 Jun 18
       
      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.
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