Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Powerful learning must be collaborative and connected.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. Well, I’ve spotted some tools and strategies that have amazing potential to empower students and teachers to engage and learn more with the world beyond their school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 93

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. It seemed like lots of people wanted to publish and share their own OER, but no one wanted to use anyone else’s.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Luminary Labs hosted summits, interviewed educators and reviewed more than 100 educational resources to inform its four reports, handouts and a video series about making adult learning opportunities more effective and appealing. We’re not just looking to make costs go down in the USG.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. Personalized and blended learning pathways were proclaimed to be the future of education. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014.

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OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 243

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 86

SETDA Says

DECEMBER 18, 2014

ConnectED Digital Content E-Rate Equity of Access FCC In the News OER Policy Professional Learning' As the calendar year draws to a close and we take time to celebrate family and the holiday season, all of us at SETDA.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Why does personalized learning, ironically, feel so impersonal? Personalized learning, in its broadest application, suggests tailoring instruction to meet the needs, strengths and interests of each learner. One of the more measured posts reads: There is NOTHING “personal” about personalized learning! This is a mistake.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). Yet, professors can build their own OER textbook for free, and companies such as Lumen Learning sell courseware products based on OER (with homework-delivery features and other tools) for less (about $25 per student). It’s just out there.”

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 105

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. With OER, the report notes, “initial advances in the authoring platform or curation method of open resources is now overshadowed by campuswide OER initiatives and sophisticated publishing options that blend adaptive elements into an OER text.”

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Report OER Trends Industry 63

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Back in 2014, our interviews and surveys led us to a taxonomy of digital curation. Along the way they experience collateral benefits of developing learning agility, building social capital and demonstrating creativity. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Next Generation Courseware Challenge project in fall 2014, and began implementing Smart Sparrow ’s BioBeyond technology in spring 2015.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S. But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services. “If corporations, from Apple to Adobe.

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Larsen says this is a common criticism of OER textbooks, particularly among the conventional textbook industry, and he argues that errors in conventional textbooks are also reasonably high—and after all, he adds, the errors in conventional textbooks were the reason he started LibreText in the first place. “If

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Accessibility OER eBook Course 60

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Since the majority of their lessons and assignments are open educational resources (OER) they wanted to license their Operation Bee curriculum as OER.

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OER Tools E-rate Blackboard 40

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Throughout the past decade, Knewton ’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and venture capital community. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. content providers. K-12 courseware business under “ strategic review.”

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 73

edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

At ISTE 2015, Common Sense Education will provide a sneak preview of the latest version of Graphite, designed to help educators learn fundamental edtech teaching skills. Learn more here about their Marriott Lightning Sessions and raffle and follow @commonsenseedu & @graphite on Twitter. dreambox learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Join us today for a great set of final presentations, as well as for our closing celebration: we''ll hear a special message from US Congresswoman Nita Lowey, get reports on the five grassroots projects, announce dates for some special 2014 events, and issue the conference-created Global Education Declaration.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. Tagged on: August 18, 2017 Is classroom technology good for learning or wasting time? Not all of these things can be true.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Rebekkah Smith Aldrich , the Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System and co-chair of the American Library Association's (ALA) Special Task Force on Sustainability, Learn more about Rebekkah at [link]. At Westhampton he helped construct a new $7.8 and at the Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference OER System 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

” ProPublica, also writing in August, observed that “from 2000 to 2014, the average cost of in-state tuition and fees for public colleges in America rose 80 percent. There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. of courses use OER. I was skeptical then ; I am skeptical now.

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Wired Campus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. And 38 percent report that their institutions encourage faculty members to use open-resource content, compared with 33 percent in 2014. Green said.

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Report Survey OER Education 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Rebekkah Smith Aldrich , the Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System and co-chair of the American Library Association's (ALA) Special Task Force on Sustainability, Learn more about Rebekkah at [link]. At Westhampton he helped construct a new $7.8

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Rebekkah Smith Aldrich , the Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System and co-chair of the American Library Association's (ALA) Special Task Force on Sustainability, Learn more about Rebekkah at [link]. At Westhampton he helped construct a new $7.8

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Libraries Conference OER System 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

What can we learn from library innovators and innovators from other sectors and industries that will help us shape the future we want and that our communities aspire towards? She is the author of the Dialogue’s 2014 vision report, Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries. public libraries. He holds an M.Ed

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

What can we learn from library innovators and innovators from other sectors and industries that will help us shape the future we want and that our communities aspire towards? She is the author of the Dialogue’s 2014 vision report, Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries. public libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

The library as creative classroom means we approach the learning opportunities we create with thought, user-directed planning, and insights from research. This classroom may include physical spaces for instruction and discovery as well as online, multiscale platforms aimed at social learning and participation.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. The company behind the ACT on Wednesday announced plans for a Center for Equity in Learning, which will focus on helping underserved students succeed in college and the work force.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Technology is transforming education, with personalised learning at the heart of the curriculum. “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ? . “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” The learn-to-code company with the derogatory name has previously raised $730,000. Is this the future?” ” asks Clint Lalonde.

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Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” “How Can VR be Used for Learning?”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47