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Cengage offers new OER-based product for general education courses - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...duct-general-education-courses

OER

shared by wlampner on 10 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Cengage predicts that the use of OER -- free, adaptable educational course materials -- could triple over the next five years
  • eady to “embrace the movement” -- adding their own services and technology to create “value-added digital solutions that help institutions use OER to its best advantage.”
  • aking OER materials freely available online from sites such as OpenStax, Cengage has added its own assessments, content and technology to the materials, which will be delivered through an “intuitive, outcomes-based” platform that can be integrated into students’ learning management systems
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  • psychology, American government and sociology, and more courses in science, economics and the humanities will be available this fall.
  • some materials that were previously under a Cengage copyright, will be registered under an open CC-BY license so that institutions can adapt and customize the content
  • But for those who want to use the OpenNow platform, fees start at $25 per student per course. “The $25 is for the delivery of content that’s aligned to assessment and learning objectives, the additional assessments and videos we either curated or created, and the outcomes-based platform with personalization and analytics
  • many problems faced by traditional publishers -- how to reduce prices, how to enable customers to customize content, how to ensure students have their materials on the first day of class -- were problems that OER can solve. “So why not use OER to solve them?
  • s OER has gained momentum, more and more companies want to attach themselves to the idea of being open. But for each product that’s launched, we need to keep asking questions. Is it really open, or is it just being branded as open? Open is not just a set of attributes, it’s a set of values and practices that make education better.”
wlampner

Lumen Learning - Courseware: Candela - 0 views

lumenlearning.com/courseware-candela

OER open_courseware

shared by wlampner on 22 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 22 Sep 15
     
    "Candela courseware from Lumen Learning provides an extremely low cost e-textbook alternative to expensive commercial textbooks in high enrollment college courses. Designed using open educational resources (OER), Candela courses offer much more than just an OER textbook. The Catalog includes OER-based courses for 50+subjects focusing on high enrollment courses students typically take during the first two years of college.
wlampner

Kyle Bowen: Robot Writers, Open Education, and the Future of Edtech | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

er.educause.edu/...ation-and-the-future-of-edtech

OER textbooks future ELI

shared by wlampner on 07 Dec 17 - No Cached
  • Bowen is part of a team that has developed algorithms for computers to learn how to write textbooks by extracting factual information.
  • if a machine writes a textbook or other resource, who is the author?
  • just who owns the copyright if the final deliverable qualifies as a derivative work?
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  • The single most exciting aspect for him, he explains, is accessibility. The advent of free or low-cost textbooks for underserved populations — especially within STEM fields, which advance so quickly that traditional books are typically out of date the moment they’re printed — is a very exciting prospect and, as Bowen puts it, ‘a powerful idea.’
  • he platform uses intelligent algorithms that search through OER repositories and return relevant resources that can be combined, remixed, and reused in the support of specific learning goals.
  • We could even have entire learning spaces that adapt to suit the specific needs of faculty or students
aimeede

Lessons From the Sharing Economy | Higher Ed Gamma - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...lessons-sharing-economy

oer video active learning sharing

shared by aimeede on 02 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • aimeede on 02 Nov 16
     
    Sharing/using other instructor's materials like videos in support of active learning .... I like this para especially: "The impact is especially great for women and others under-represented in STEM fields. Studies show that the achievement gap in STEM classes can be reduced or even annihilated for women, first-generation college students and underrepresented minority students if active learning strategies are employed. In order to make this happen in the classroom, it is effective to place some amount of foundational learning outside of class time."
Teresa Potter

Screens vs. Print: Does Digital Reading Change How Students Get the Big Picture? - Insi... - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ding_change_comprehension.html

e-readers digital textbooks oer

shared by Teresa Potter on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Among young adults who regularly use smartphones and tablets, just reading a story or performing a task on a screen instead of on paper led to greater focus on concrete details, but less ability to infer meaning or quickly get the gist of a problem,
  • Using a digital format can develop a "mental 'habit' of triggering a more detail-focused mindset, one that prioritizes processing local, immediate information rather than considering more abstract, decontextualized interpretations of information
  • the paper users were significantly more "abstract" in thinking. Digital participants reported preferring concrete rather than abstract descriptions of a behavior
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  • But first, they asked a third of the young adults to think about why they would solve a problem—a way to trigger an abstract frame of thinking—and asked another third to think about how they would solve a problem—designed to prime them for concrete thinking. The third group had no priming. Of the digital readers who had been primed to think abstractly, 48 percent chose the correct car—significantly more than the 25 percent of digital readers primed to think concretely,
wlampner

Membership | Open Textbook Network - 0 views

research.cehd.umn.edu/...membership

OER

shared by wlampner on 06 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 06 Feb 17
     
    The Open Textbook Network (OTN) promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks.
wlampner

The Price Is Still Right: 15 Sites for Free Digital Textbooks -- Campus Technology - 0 views

campustechnology.com/...or-free-digital-textbooks.aspx

OER

shared by wlampner on 06 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 06 Feb 17
     
    "The following list offers 15 sources of quality digital content to use in your courses without worrying about the price tag. "
wlampner

About | Affordable Learning Exchange (OSU) - 0 views

affordablelearning.osu.edu/about

#OER

shared by wlampner on 17 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 17 Feb 17
     
    "The Affordable Learning Exchange was created to help instructors take ownership of their courses and content. We are here to help navigate the waters of affordable resources and find creative solutions that promote students savings. This includes re-imagining the textbook, encouraging faculty innovation, and empowering our faculty through grants and training opportunities to adopt, adapt, create and share open educational resources"
Patrick Tabatcher

FLP Vol. I Table of Contents - 0 views

www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html

open_courseware OER

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 13 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 13 Sep 13
     
    Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol 1 - in HTML form.
wlampner

Stop Saying "High Quality" - 1 views

opencontent.org/...3821

OER

shared by wlampner on 30 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 30 Mar 15
     
    quality versus production value, quality=learning effectiveness?
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