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Open Educational Resources: The Education Ecosystem Comes to Life
I was asked to explain why the introduction of open educational resources into the education ecosystem might in fact be one of the most important things that has happened to education in the last 100 years. I guess in centuries before we might have said that it was...
Travel Well
In 2008, ISKME conducted an exploratory pilot study of the factors that contribute to a resource’s ability to "travel well". We define travel well resources as resources that are localizable across multiple teaching and learning situations, including those for which...
Leveraging OER to advance DEI: A Guide for Campus Change Agents
This guide is designed to support the integration of open educational resources (OER) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals within higher education institutions. Built upon research funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that examined the...
OER in Texas Statewide Playbook; A Holistic Approach to Systems Change
The Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Statewide Playbook is a resource developed by practitioners and advocates actively involved in the labor of open education to guide new and expanding OER work at institutions of higher education. The Playbook is the result...
Five Faculty and Library Curation Personas to Aid OER Discovery Solutions
Abstract: Though use of OER course materials in college classes is associated positively with student success, a principal barrier to OER adoption by faculty is difficulty in finding needed resources. This paper explores how user-experience (UX) research can be used...