LibreTexts is home to the most downloaded open educational resources (OER) on the Internet today and has already saved students $31 million dollars. The LibreTexts’ mission is to unite students, faculty, and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of Read more…
Dr. Illowsky is co-author of “Introductory Statistics”, “Introductory Business Statistics” and “Collaborative Statistics”, free and open textbooks published by OpenStax College that are used by hundreds of institutions throughout the U.S.& world. In 2013, the OpenEducation Consortium awarded her its top international award, the Educator ACE Award, for her contributions Read more…
Mountain Heights Academy is the most highly rated accredited online charter school in Utah for its high standardized test scores, unparalleled teacher interaction, graduation rate, and personalized instruction. Open Educational Resources are used as the basis of their curriculum.
Jim Buckingham (@buckinsand) is designing a series of F2F workshops tentatively titled Badge Leader, for members of an education technology association in the Arab Gulf. The goal is to empower education technologists in the region to become champions in the use of badges and to recognize their efforts with open Read more…