[Open-education] [OER-advocacy] Re: [OER] THREE IN FOUR U.S. TEACHERS SAY OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ARE USED MORE OFTEN THAN TEXTBOOKS | TES Global

Wed Mar 9 18:00:45 UTC 2016

Agree - it will be helpful to see the methodology and study details / data.

I have some friends at TES ... I'll ping them and will report back if I
learn more.

>From Dubai,

Cable

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Nicole Allen <textbooksnicole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Priscila. To me this doesn’t look like a very rigorous survey with
> respect to OER. It’s done by a UK-based education technology company, and
> there isn't any information on the methodology or wording of the questions,
> which is suspect. They also make several factual errors in the press
> release, including how they describe US Department of Education policy and
> neglecting that textbooks can be open resources too. So, I suspect this
> probably doesn't distinguish between “open” and “free online”, and while
> the results may be meaningful in showing that teachers are moving *toward*
> more open resources (using free online resources is a first step), we
> should also beware of anything that promotes misunderstanding of what open
> means.
>
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> On Mar 9, 2016, at 5:56 AM, Priscila Gonsales <prigon at educadigital.org.br>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> Tks Cable for sharing this survey! It's amazing results!
> But I'm in doubt if this "open" the survey discuss about is related to
> "our open understanding" or is also related to "free understanding" (I mean
> not paid).
>
> Anyone knows?
>
> Priscila
>
> 2016-03-08 20:15 GMT-03:00 Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>:
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