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Behind the Scenes with Jacqui Cain, an OER Content Developer
April 03, 2012Jacqui Cain, an instructor at College of the Redwoods, has worked on many OER projects. She has developed content as part of the the Open Course Library Project and created an open textbook/reader under the Kaleidoscope Grant. She is also currently designing an “Indigenous Peoples Reader” that uses folk stories and myths from the original… Read More >
Open Education Resources: What’s in it for me?
March 05, 2012From Sue Evans, Co-Founder and CEO Many of us involved in e-learning and education are very excited about one very big idea: open education resources, or OER. It’s easy to find out who’s making them, where to find them and how to use them. However, it can be harder to articulate why your average teacher… Read More >
Blendedschools.net is Empowering Schools to Teach and Learn Online with Open Educational Resources
November 08, 2011Our next Innovators in Online Learning webinar will feature blendedschools.net (BSN) and their adoption of the first independent, branded CONNECT repository, BSN Cloud. The webinar will show how this implementation supports BSN’s initiative to increase accessibility to high quality learning objects and promote blended learning. I had the opportunity to conduct a short interview with… Read More >
Freshly Tweeted – A Snapshot of the #OERseries
November 01, 2011We wrapped up the OER webinar series yesterday with an informative panel presentation on funding OER by Paul Stacey, Director of BCcampus, Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons and James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons. Get a feel for the topics that… Read More >
The OER Webinar Series Continues and the COT Small Grant Program
September 20, 2011If you’re interested in creating, sharing, finding or funding high quality open educational resources, you won’t want to miss the last two webinars of the OER Series. The third webinar, Creating OER: The WHO and the HOW, will be held tomorrow (sign up now – before it’s too late!) and the forth and final webinar,… Read More >
Cutting Textbook Costs with OER
July 21, 2011With the rising cost of education, particularly textbooks, many educators are turning to technology to reduce costs. Whether it’s the use of e-books, iPads or open educational resources, the idea that technology is playing a major role in revolutionizing content availability is one that no one can deny. This is made apparent by many of… Read More >
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