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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

I usually feature them on this blog under the banner of 10Q - ten questions. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think the general move to openness - MOOCs, OERs, open access, digital scholarship, open data - all these things are part of a bigger picture. Unported License.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” And folks are looking at blog posts the student wrote for class. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “First Ed-Tech Trade Mission by U.S.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Subscribe to their blog. They’re amazing.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. ” From the Mozilla blog : “ 10 Fascinating Things We Learned When We Asked The World ‘ How Connected Are You? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.