ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

These days low-cost alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, are getting a boost as a potential solution. Last week, for example, Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, announced it received a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2022

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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Computing Education Research Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Teaspoon languages: Support learning tasks that teachers (typically non-CS teachers) want students to achieve; Are programming languages, in that they specify computational processes for a computational agent to execute; and Are learnable in less than 10 minutes, so that they can be learned and used in a one hour lesson.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 28, 2023

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER are freely accessible educational materials that can be used, shared, and modified by educators to meet their specific needs. Her students became more engaged and enthusiastic about STEM subjects, leading to higher achievement levels overall.

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