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Book Interactive Open Educational Resources

Download or read book Interactive Open Educational Resources written by John D. Shank and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014! Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor’s curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution’s learning management system.

Book Educational Research and Innovation Open Educational Resources A Catalyst for Innovation

Download or read book Educational Research and Innovation Open Educational Resources A Catalyst for Innovation written by Orr Dominic and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and governments around the world are looking to improve their education systems.

Book Open

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rajiv S. Jhangiani
  • Publisher : Ubiquity Press
  • Release : 2017-03-27
  • ISBN : 1911529013
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Open written by Rajiv S. Jhangiani and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares the stories, motives, insights, and practical tips from global leaders in the open movement.

Book The World of Children

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Cook
  • Publisher : Pearson College Division
  • Release : 2013-07-08
  • ISBN : 9780205953738
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book The World of Children written by Greg Cook and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- Helping students make connections between science and practice The World of Children helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. The third edition features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges. It encourages readers to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives. The World of Children is a chronological child development text. MyPsychLab is available with World of Children, 3e. Through MyPsychLab, students have access to MyVirtualChild, an interactive web-based simulation that allows students to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time. A better teaching and learning experience The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to: Personalize Learning -- The new MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructions achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking --Prompts throughout each chapter jumpstart readers' critical thinking process. Engage Students -- Real-life cases encourage students apply what they are learning. Also, students can raise a child through MyVirtualChild. Explore Research -- With over 600 new research citations, this new edition reflects the latest research in the field of child psychology. Understand Different Perspectives - Several perspectives are included in the reading to help students think about the content from different points of view. Support Instructors -- New MyPsychLab Video Series. These cross-cultural videos feature original footage filmed in the United States, Mexico, and Botswana. Guided by series editor Ashley Maynard (University of Hawaii, Manoa), they show how culture impacts child development. Videos are available in multiple formats: on an instructor's DVD, tied to quizzes in MyPsychLab, and called out in the chapter with "Watch" icons.

Book Best Practices in Designing Courses with Open Educational Resources

Download or read book Best Practices in Designing Courses with Open Educational Resources written by Olena Zhadko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Practices in Designing Courses with Open Educational Resources is a practical guide that assists faculty and institutions looking to adopt and implement open educational resources (OER) and to foster meaningful, effective learning experiences through the course design process. Chapters loaded with tips, case examples, and guidance from practitioners advise readers through each step necessary for sustainable OER initiatives, from preliminary planning and course redesign through teaching, learning, and faculty development. Written by two authors with direct experience in training higher education professionals to use OER, this is a comprehensive resource for faculty, instructional designers, course developers, librarians, information technologists, and administrators hoping to rethink and refresh their curricula by moving beyond traditional textbooks. An authors’ website expands the book with resources, templates, and examples of implementation models, including faculty development workshop OER materials that can be adopted by readers.

Book Open Educational Resources  OER  Pedagogy and Practices

Download or read book Open Educational Resources OER Pedagogy and Practices written by Molly Y. Zhou and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This book examines open educational resources in education with a focus on pedagogical discussion and practices in teaching and learning in higher education and in K-12 schools"--Provided by publisher"--

Book Open Educational Resources

Download or read book Open Educational Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Open educational resources  policy  costs  transformation

Download or read book Open educational resources policy costs transformation written by Miao, Fengchun and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inclusive Access and Open Educational Resources E text Programs in Higher Education

Download or read book Inclusive Access and Open Educational Resources E text Programs in Higher Education written by Tracy A. Hurley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes a comprehensive and broad look at e-text programs across a wide spectrum of programs, institutions, and policies in three parts. The first part showcases several policy papers to contextualize the discussion and highlight the reasons for IAE programs’ structure and the obstacles they face for implementation. The second part is an in-depth exploration of various case studies that provide a detailed description of IAE programs, including information about program elements, program structure, program size, and insights into how programs are operationalized, and their shortcomings and benefits to students and stakeholders. The final part is a selection of research papers that offer evidence-based support for the adoption of IAE programs in terms of student success, access, engagement, costs, and a variety of other student and institutional outcomes. There are approximately 300 institutions of higher education that currently have some form of Inclusive Access or Open Educational Resources E-text (IAE) program in the United States, but there is little scholarship that engages on the topic of assessing these programs’ effect on student success. The results of the research studies included in this volume will inform faculty, administrators, and policy-makers who seek to support the development, adoption, and implementation of IAE programs based on their potential positive effects on student success and other outcomes.

Book Open Pedagogy Approaches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexis Clifton
  • Publisher : Milne Library
  • Release : 2020-07-09
  • ISBN : 9781942341659
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Open Pedagogy Approaches written by Alexis Clifton and published by Milne Library. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oer

    Oer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Wesolek
  • Publisher : Pacific University Press
  • Release : 2018-10
  • ISBN : 9781945398797
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Oer written by Andrew Wesolek and published by Pacific University Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, the drive to affect positive change--however vague or idiosyncratic our sense of this might be--has guided our work in higher education. We champion the pursuit of a college degree because few endeavors can match it in terms of advancing a person's economic mobility (Chetty, Friedman, Saez, Turner, and Yagan; 2017). Despite recent debates about the value of a college degree (Pew Research Center, 2017), the opportunities and financial stability awarded to those with college degrees remain apparent when they are compared to peers who have only graduated high school (Pew Research Center, 2014). And while more Americans have a college degree than ever before (Ryan and Bauman, 2016), access to a formal, post-secondary education continues to be elusive for some. Indeed, over the last ten years, analysts have projected that the cost of attending college would keep 2.4 million low-to-moderate income, college-qualified high school graduates from completing a college degree (Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2006). During that same period, college students in the United States saw expenses related to tuition and fees increase by 63 percent, school housing costs (excluding board) increase by 51 percent, textbook prices increase by 88 percent (Bureau of Labor, 2016). Because few students can afford a college education by salary alone, 44.2 million Americans have sought financial aid via student loans. As a result, total student loan debt is now topping $1.45 trillion in the United States (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2017), and student loan delinquency rates are averaging 11.2 percent (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2017). The burden of a student's financial decisions extends beyond the mere individual: society will inevitably carry the weight of this debt for years to come.

Book Affordable Course Materials

Download or read book Affordable Course Materials written by Chris Diaz and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable book demonstrates how librarians can use their collection, licensing, and faculty outreach know-how to help students and their instructors address skyrocketing textbook prices.

Book On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness

Download or read book On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the evaluation research literature that has accumulated around 19 K-12 mathematics curricula and breaks new ground in framing an ambitious and rigorous approach to curriculum evaluation that has relevance beyond mathematics. The committee that produced this book consisted of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and methodologists who began with the following charge: Evaluate the quality of the evaluations of the thirteen National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported and six commercially generated mathematics curriculum materials; Determine whether the available data are sufficient for evaluating the efficacy of these materials, and if not; Develop recommendations about the design of a project that could result in the generation of more reliable and valid data for evaluating such materials. The committee collected, reviewed, and classified almost 700 studies, solicited expert testimony during two workshops, developed an evaluation framework, established dimensions/criteria for three methodologies (content analyses, comparative studies, and case studies), drew conclusions on the corpus of studies, and made recommendations for future research.

Book The Educator s Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources

Download or read book The Educator s Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources written by Tim D. Green and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital video, audio, and text have never been more popular, and educators need to know how to make new media work in all types of learning environments. The Educator’s Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources provides practical advice on how to produce and use open access resources to support student learning. This realistic "how-to" guide is written for education professionals in any discipline seeking to transform their instruction with technology.

Book Open Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Blessinger
  • Publisher : Open Book Publishers
  • Release : 2016-12-19
  • ISBN : 178374281X
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Open Education written by Patrick Blessinger and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.

Book Open Educational Resources

Download or read book Open Educational Resources written by Unesco and published by Education on the Move. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of today's knowledge-intensive societies. The Open Educational Resources movement offers one solution for extending the reach of education and expanding learning opportunities. The goal of the movement is to equalise access to knowledge worldwide through openly and freely available online high-quality content. UNESCO has contributed to building global awareness about Open Educational Resources, through facilitating an extended conversation in cyberspace. Over the course of two years, a large and diverse international community came together in a series of online discussion forums to discuss the concept of Open Educational Resources and its potential. In making the background papers and reports from those discussions available for the first time in print, this publication seeks to share even more widely the contributions made by so many. It is intended for all who may be intrigued by the Open Educational Resources movement - its promise and its progress.

Book Foundations of Epidemiology

Download or read book Foundations of Epidemiology written by Marit L. Bovbjerg and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Epidemiology is an open access, introductory epidemiology text intended for students and practitioners in public or allied health fields. It covers epidemiologic thinking, causality, incidence and prevalence, public health surveillance, epidemiologic study designs and why we care about which one is used, measures of association, random error and bias, confounding and effect modification, and screening. Concepts are illustrated with numerous examples drawn from contemporary and historical public health issues.