Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. I first came into the open education field as an educator frustrated with many traditional textbooks in my discipline.

Textbooks 131

Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 131

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Feedback dialogue sample from eighth grader Grace, Image credit: Christine Witcher In response, we created Floop , a tool that allows teachers to give digital annotated feedback, allows students to respond immediately to the feedback and facilitates a scaffolded and anonymous peer review session. Anonymous student.

Feedback 167

Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

It aims to publish “free, open access, digital editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs” in the humanities and social sciences, using funds from participating universities. The press’s top seller this year in print is an OA textbook that anyone can download for free.

Peer Review 145

Peer Review Counselling Science Textbooks 145

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

In fact, the JAMA Network just published a peer-reviewed report that “showed enhanced cognitive performance in children who played video games vs those who did not.” We’ve also seen growth in interest-driven learning, particularly around youth game-making—a key component of the huge success of Roblox and Minecraft.

Game-Based Learning 186

Game-Based Learning Learning Critical Thinking Peer Review 186

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

“Reading efficiency is about reading accurately, at an appropriate rate, and with prosody, which means reading with expression and awareness of the intended meaning of the text,” says Gehsmann, who co-authored a textbook about the developmental approach to teaching reading and writing and serves as a content-area specialist for Reading Plus.

Reading 156

Reading Peer Review Elementary School Elementary School 156

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available. After bouncing around a few, I finally settled on OpenStax , a free online textbook platform through Rice University. I’m here to tell you that concern is valid.

Textbooks 95

Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 95

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

As I began my first night of teaching in a university setting, I asked the students to take out their textbooks for the class and turn to a particular page. He said that otherwise I ran the risk of having people lose confidence in my capacity to guide them through the day of learning a new software program.

Teaching 167

Teaching Course Evaluations Peer Review Culture 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Freddy has been studying how kids learn to read for four decades and has written more than 100 peer reviewed articles on the subject. Tools like TextGenome create new opportunities for OER to resemble more traditional textbooks without placing more demands on the teacher. Elfrieda “Freddy” H. Hiebert and Kirill Kireyev.

History 144

History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

In this portion, instructors possess the autonomy to utilize instructional aids by offering visuals to accompany the podcast, offering class notes, figures or graphs, or reflecting pages from a textbook to proficiently convey the new material. Further, Dr. Blackburn is an ad hoc reviewer for the CPQ Orthopedics journal.

Instructors 111

Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

TOME allows us to achieve our mission of delivering high-quality peer-reviewed scholarship to the world,” said Dean Smith, director of Duke University Press, in an email. It’s a great example of libraries and publishers working together to enable widespread access to knowledge.

History 109

History Peer Review English Knowledge 109

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

You can also include what we call a chat box which is a specific titled slide that has an open-ended question and students are asked to brainstorm ideas or practice the topics being presented followed by the instructor offering a guided response from the textbook or reliable source that gives students some additional feedback on their thinking.

Student Engagement 90

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 90

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 90

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

In this portion, instructors possess the autonomy to utilize instructional aids by offering visuals to accompany the podcast, offering class notes, figures or graphs, or reflecting pages from a textbook to proficiently convey the new material. Further, Dr. Blackburn is an ad hoc reviewer for the CPQ Orthopedics journal.

Instructors 90

Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 90

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

You can also include what we call a chat box which is a specific titled slide that has an open-ended question and students are asked to brainstorm ideas or practice the topics being presented followed by the instructor offering a guided response from the textbook or reliable source that gives students some additional feedback on their thinking.

Student Engagement 66

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 66

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

It’s popular to predict the death of the textbook—and these days even textbook providers seem eager to move away from their age-old publishing model. Perhaps we’re in the zombie phase of textbook publishing, when commercial texts are walking corpses that never get fully eradicated. We do peer-reviewed research.

Textbooks 159

Textbooks Peer Review Writing Instructors 159