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Navigating the Shift to OER

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Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. The post Navigating the Shift to OER appeared first on edWeb. Join the Community.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. Related: Are Digital Textbooks More Effective for K-12 Curriculum.

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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

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Many professors are still skeptical about utilizing smart phones in the classroom, but I believe we could get more professors on-board if entrepreneurs better understood the challenges and resistance faculty face to use mobile technologies. Here are 5 tips for entrepreneurs looking to make scalable impact in the community college market.

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The 2018 ‘Horizon Report’ Is Late. But It Almost Never Emerged.

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What’s In This Year’s Edition The Horizon Report aims to identify themes and challenges in higher education and technology, and predict which trends may materialize in the near future. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Network technology, disruptive innovation and the future of higher education

Mark Smithers

Network technology, disruptive innovation and the future from Mark Smithers. This is the invited presentation that I gave at the launch of the SAFFIRE project at the University of Canberra on Monday 18 March, 2013. Educational Technology' I was asked by @JonPowles to be provocative and I think I was suitably so.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

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Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5 The technologies are often purchased separately as well. Open Up Resources traces its history to 2013, when 13 states banded together to form the K-12 OER Collaborative to build low-cost, high-quality and openly-licensed instructional materials. million in investment to date.

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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

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After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. Eventually, I was able to find all but three of my 11 textbooks for my master’s degree in educational technology freely available on the library website, not to mention plenty of other materials (e.g., The Double-Dipping Problem.

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