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Expensive Textbooks Are Still A Problem. Will Higher Quality OER Help?

ED Surge

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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What a Homework Help Site’s Move to Host Open Educational Resources Could Mean

ED Surge

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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Top Three Open Educational Resource (OER) Databases

Career in STEM

Open educational resources (OERs) are those that are “freely available to the public, both technically and legally, to use and redistribute without limitation” ( U.S. OERs are: Public – available to all to no cost. OERs themselves are free, and the need to replace textbooks is eradicated. adapted from U.S. The US Dept.

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Unlocking AI’s Potential: Live Blog #ISTELive

Cool Cat Teacher

Tara: AI Teaching Assistant in Computer Science with OER curriculum to support students in those subjects. Rolled out an AI Chatbot called Eureka and have seen it is great help with a 30-33% drop in call volume as a result of using Eureka to support students. Found the best way to improve is by doing. How can AI support teachers?

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

She has built a large online education resource (OER) on teaching data literacy in social studies. Her OER links to several tools for creating data visualizations, like Timeline JS , CODAP , and GapMinder. The teachers love the OER, but get confused about why should do in their classes. That’s where we come in.

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Show Learners the Possibilities. And Then Get Out of the Way

User Generated Education

Students anywhere in the world can access OERs at any time, and they can access the material repeatedly ” ( Pros and Cons of Using OERs for Instruction ). In this age of abundance, free online technologies and resources are just ripe for the picking. These resources leverage the playing field.

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The information won’t just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology-assisted data literacy instruction in social studies

Computing Education Research Blog

Since this was a journal on educational technology, we mostly focused on two technologies: The OER Tammy created to support data literacy in social studies education — see link here. DV4L, the Data Visualization for Learning tool that we created explicitly for social studies teachers — see link here.

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