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Live Tuesday August 16th with Gary Lopez on HippoCampus.org and Teaching with the Power of Open, Digital Resources

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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The Consensus Around “Open”

Iterating Toward Openness

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. faculty are completely unaware of OER.

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

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This year, she launched “ The FAST Fund ,” a grassroots effort – a micro-scholarship of sorts – to meet the emergency financial needs of college students. There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. of courses use OER. Read her new book.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Journal & Courier : “Legislation that set the stage for Purdue's dive into online higher ed also exempts ‘New U’ from state’s open meetings, public records laws. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard.

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March 13th Library 2.0 Mini-Conference "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dr. Bryant is an active member of Educause, and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC); she also served as an Exemplary Course Program reviewer for Blackboard, Inc. He has given hundreds of presentations at conferences, meetings, webinars, and workshops. She has a Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Who’s Meeting With DeVos ? “The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.” Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Protestors were outside the meeting in force. His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). It’s 2017, and ed-tech is so “disruptive” that we’re still debating the LMS , a technology that is at least 30 years old (and that’s just if you date it to the founding of Blackboard.