Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Without conceptualizing an explanatory mechanism—a reason to believe a difference might exist—they simply compare the outcomes of students whose required course materials are openly licensed with those whose materials are traditionally copyrighted.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

We're excited to announce our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2023

. — The Epilepsy Foundation announced a five-year collaboration with Vector Solutions, the leading provider of training and software solutions for K-12 and higher education institutions, to offer the Epilepsy Foundation’s Seizure Recognition & First Aid Certification training in the Vector Safety and Compliance Course Library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join the Library 2.0 Please also join the Library 2.0 Steve Steve Hargadon Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Please consider joining us for this special Library 2.0 OVERVIEW: Library marketing can be effective without the expense of hiring a marketing and PR firm. OVERVIEW: Library marketing can be effective without the expense of hiring a marketing and PR firm. You will first need to be a member of Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Tomorrow is our second Library 2.020 mini-conference! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While she learned to navigate and understand the value of her library’s network of databases, she knows that many kids don’t even know what a database is. She recognizes the library as a safe space for the individual and as an important space that creates community. See video at 28:40.) I am standing here in privilege.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference is just one week away! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2023

But college courses? It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. Of course, there are plenty of tools already out there that support online higher education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. I want him to have access to things I didn’t have in my early years. And so is she. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

But that hasn’t stopped Diaz from advocating for parents like her to have better access to and understanding of school data. Those who are proficient can take regular classes, and choose their electives and sometimes enter advanced-placement courses. For people to go into the library to be able to access that data, that’s hard too.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2011

This is our official call for presentations for the Library 2.011 conference, November 2 - 3, 2011. The conference will be held online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and will be free to attend. We encourage all to participate, and ask that you share this information where appropriate.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 24, 2015

Each year I ponder what to do for the first of the year library orientation. As students entered the library, I played the book trailer. Over the course of reading the book to students, there were certain pages that started to stand out as the pages I wanted to pause on in order to connect the book with the first visit to the library.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 22, 2016

I’m beyond excited to finally announce that I’m a 2016 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. I’m extremely honored to represent the power of libraries in our world along with the many other talented individuals on this year’s list. The library has never been just mine.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It will take Chinchon an extra semester to earn his degree, and that’s even after he took courses in the summers to catch up. For these and other reasons, some take courses they don’t need, pick majors they will later change and don’t know what to do when the resulting problems leave them on the brink of flunking out.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. Effective Advocacy. What would higher education do in fall 2021?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We've had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. Thomas Petra ‏ @ RealWorldMath 6h 6 hours ago Day 2 of the Global Educ Conference.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ve had families who just needed some layer of support or to continue to access their education, and the online environment provided immediate response to that,” shared Mr. Hatcher. As the teacher librarian at RCCBA, Michelle also teaches elective courses in technology and information literacy skills to her students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We had a great opening day of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Join the movement to all children everywhere access to education. Tuesday, November 18th, is day two of the fifth annual Global Education Conference.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The sense I got is that reducing textbook costs isn’t enough anymore, the advocacy has moved on to eliminating them. For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. library resources, traditionally copyrighted resources online, etc.),

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. No one in her family has ever gotten a degree. She never took the ACT or SAT. “I didn’t know better, and it was too late.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In addition to being able to find partners for global projects, you also have access to the archived recordings of the several hundred sessions that have taken place over the last five years! Rob Howard - Founder Empowering Students through the Open-Access Teaching Method Students Empowered (STEMP) / Carlos S. Mohammad Dayem Adnan.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 31, 2015

The commitment to this maintenance continues to be one of the main reasons web projects fall by the wayside, or the reason you may be having a hard time getting your library to "support" you in the creation and maintenance of your digital humanities project. The complete site is there already. Take a look! Next time…

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Access to technology is another funding-related struggle. “If When her daughter didn’t have a textbook to take home for certain classes, she could still access information online, McCoy said.

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Reading By Example

APRIL 6, 2016

Classroom libraries and school librarians are viewed as ancillary instead of the essential resources that they are. Of course, no school or district is going to proclaim that, due to limited funding and support, not all students may have access to the same high-quality education. Source: Flickr.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. It might lead one to ask: after two decades and dozens of hundreds of millions of dollars, how many university courses can be taught using OER today?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

My name is Andy Plemmons, school library media specialist at David C Barrow Elementary in Athens GA @barrowmediacenter I will take over the DOE account this week. Partnering with Gretchen Thomas and her UGA Project Spark class to give students more access to our library makerspace. Always use the hashtag #gadoeteachertakeover.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. You had some experience in research and advocacy for privacy before you started there, while you were a student.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

It makes sense to define clear group boundaries – to determine who is allowed to access and benefit from resources and who is not – in order to prevent this outcome. and some other things involving accessibility and “non-traditional voices” that you honestly don’t follow fully. Probably not.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

Every year, CoSN awards a school district with the Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity to encourage and recognize those districts that are working to eliminate inequities and narrow the digital access gap. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. Public-Private Partnerships.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2022

Of course, administrators should be talking to and working with their educators and staff to understand school policies, but getting parent support is also essential. Both presenters said their districts offer a variety of training programs from in-person to online compliance courses to self-guided training.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Of course, having one-on-one conversations is also important, but in order to move forward—and to get community support—data is key. Next, the speakers have used technology to make social-emotional learning easier to access. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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