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“We need textbooks!”

Several conversations lately have made me ponder the importance of community understanding and support for various new initiatives like open learning and OER adoption. In particular, I was at a meeting with the mayor and city manager of a local

karen April 25, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Reflecting on my year of open – part 3/OER and districts

This year, I have reflected a lot on the way that districts adopt curriculum and what this means for OER. First, some background… The curriculum adoption and purchase decision in K-12 schools is a complicated process. There are many players

karen December 15, 2014 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Open means never having to say “pay up”

One of the benefits of open licensed materials that I often cite is that they will always be free (unlike the other free stuff on the Internet…Many of us have experienced the unfortunate consequences of great content and tools that

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State moves to open textbooks

This week Utah announced a major initiative to use open textbooks in K-12, thanks to the efforts of Dr. David Wiley. This move is significant for a number of reasons. It saves money. This isn’t trivial in these times of

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Remixing textbooks

Credit: Terriko There are some really high quality, open textbooks out there. For the most part, they’re pretty static and text-heavy though. For a while, I’ve been thinking remixing one of them into a more interactive, media-rich Moodle course. I

karen September 29, 2011September 29, 2011 Uncategorized 7 Comments Read more
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