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Susan Jones Post 1

2 June 2018, 8:46 PM

It Depends!

   OER to me is a project I need to get busy on so I don't have time for making a video, illustration...   but I deemed it the "rabbit hole of choice" for the summer, when I have a fair amount of 'down time' in my job providing academic support to developmental level students at our community college. 

OER to me is a great potential for getting people learning who don’t have access right now — and even people who need specific, complicated things for whatever reason.    (Yes, it’s complicated.)  It’s fragmented — this course is very much in the context of postsecondary instructors, with a world view.   (Hey, it spared me doing the preliminary survey, right?)   A recent article in edutopia  is very much … ignorant of that whole community, speaking to OER’s disorganized repositories for K-12, and for postsecondary… the assorted profit-making perspectives.   There’s so much more than that!

I dream that the OER community can be more than The Latest Innovation that gets morphed and strangled by The Way Things Are.


Jenni Hayman Post 2 (summarised) in reply to 1

2 June 2018, 10:20 PM
Thank you for joining the course when you can Susan, that's why informal...
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Jennifer Nohai-Seaman Post 3 (summarised) in reply to 1

7 June 2018, 8:48 PM
I teach developmental math at my community college and it had changed...
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