Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER. When Grimaldi et al.

Khan Academy 108

Khan Academy OER Case Study System 108

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 193

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. WIll provide a foundation for further learning opportunities.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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Pearson OER Software Course 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Sparrow, the university’s senior director of teaching and learning with technology, thinks the fears that some faculty have about artificial intelligence taking their jobs echos the concern some had 20 years ago when higher education was first “branching out into online learning.”

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Robotics OER Industry Education 126

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

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. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. The real power of digital technology to increase learning remains untapped. Digital badges. underwhelming.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 88

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015. Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children’s learning across the curriculum. Self-Paced Online Courses For Teacher.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on innovation challenges at higher education institutions. Now, she says, the use of technology in learning has created more of a need to put money behind innovation.

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Report Competency Based Learning OER Survey 78

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

With tons of third-party integrations, it's ideal as a central hub for learning and productivity. Teachers accumulate a ton of materials over the course of a year. It's also a place for students to save research and learn organization skills. OER Commons. Productivity Notebook - Take Notes, Sync.

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EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley is one of several Beaver County school districts finding ways to supplement or completely replace paper textbooks with online materials such as eBooks, downloadable apps and openly licensed educational resources. Department of Education in efforts to provide schools with quality online material. image via AP ].

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Can online learning and digital tools help learners save money? On Tuesday, June 12 the #DLNchat community got together to dive into how improving digital learning could help institutions pass along savings to students, and how technology might also help reduce indirect costs for college attendance.

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OER Tools MOOC Course 68

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In addition to offering theoretically rigorous, research-oriented courses, also offering a few highly job-oriented courses as well,” he tweeted. In addition to offering theoretically rigorous, research-oriented courses, also offering a few highly job-oriented courses as well. Ed Garay (@garay) November 13, 2018.

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How To Mobility Course OER 115

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

LMS provider itslearning and Gooru , a nonprofit organization which provides a free online learning navigator for educators of the same name, announced a strategic partnership to enhance itslearning’s platform with open educator-curated content and successful practices for personalized learning.

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LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 69

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 84

IT Bill

JUNE 27, 2018

In a recent study Tony Bates shares what online students value about online learning. Innovative aspects that decrease the cost and time to degree (competency-based, stackable certificates, OER). Multiple channels that provide information about courses and programs (both traditional and digital).

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OER Mobility Online Learning Study 28

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As Troy Markowitz suggested, “Institutions need to better connect the skills attained derived from course curriculum/programs. Institutions need to focus on this and not just on measuring” student learning outcomes. At our next #DLNchat , we’ll discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Ed.

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OER Outcomes Digital Learning Online Learning 65

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” So when people tell the story of how the term “OER-enabled pedagogy” came to be they should absolutely include Maha in it.

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OER Technology Exercises Online Learning 113

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

There’s a new catch phrase in town, and it has massive implications for blended and online learning, especially as OER use begins to ramp up in schools and institutions across the country. OTT channels are the emerging elephant in the field of opportunity in online learning.”. What Is It?

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lynda.com Technology OER Education 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. He has taught courses on Communications + Information Technology as well as Culture + Technology. The call for proposals is now open HERE.

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Libraries Conference OER Social Media 31

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. 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.

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Libraries Conference OER Online Learning 28

Wired Campus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Especially for large, lower-division courses, he said, open educational resources are starting to look like a viable alternative to expensive textbooks. And this year, only 6 percent of courses use open educational resources. “The OER movement is still young.” Green, founding director of the survey.

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Report Survey OER Education 28

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). I chaired the OU''s first big elearning course in 1999 with 12,000 students which really demonstrated the potential for elearning.

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

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. In this series I will provide thoughts and free resources to help you make Blended and eLearning with of course face to face a PBL possibility.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

What’s the current state of online learning? A new report from Babson, Pearson, the Online Learning Consortium et al, Grade Level ( pdf ), offers some intriguing observations about campus strategy and leadership. of academic leaders say that their faculty accept the “value and legitimacy of online education.” .”

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Online Learning Report OER Pearson 40

eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2020

To help schools with eLearning during the closures, Follett announced March 11 it is waiving the cost for current Destiny customers through June 30 for its Classroom Ready Collections (CRC), which are standards-aligned, educator-curated Open Educational Resources (OER) that include lesson plans, activities, videos and worksheets.

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eBook OER Libraries Learning 82

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Of course, for this to apply to Pearson, it would have to turn out high quality content. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

It might be a thought to emphasize a Gold Standard using an online or blended idea. Of course, if you want to try multiple resources go ahead, Keep in mind that it is important that we take small steps, so just one is fine. Resources to Support the Gold Standards in the Blended Learning Environment.

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Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2018

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. To me OER is also about the democratization of access to education, and the pursuit and sharing of knowledge.

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OER Resources Education Digital Learning 78

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation? - Karla Pobke Coordinator Personalised Learning Born Accessible STEM: Making Sure Accessibility is Not Just an Afterthought - Anh Bui Director of Product Strategy for Global Literacy Project-Based Learning: You''re almost doing it already!

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : “With union’s blessing, students at 15 schools in the Bronx will take courses taught remotely.” ” Navitas is a for-profit education company that runs courses in Australia (and elsewhere). Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). .” ” Evil.

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Education MOOC Company OER 55

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

“Is there an elegant way to administer exams in online courses ?” Once upon a time, I’d have put Udacity in the MOOC section above, but I’m sticking this profile by RealClear Education here in the job training section: “Online Educator Udacity Adapts Courses to Changing Labor Market.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

You’ll remember Gove, of course, from his role as the former education secretary and as special friend of News Corp's Joel Klein. Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” Via Edsurge : “How Udacity Decides What Subjects To Offer Courses In (And Why It Isn’t Doing New University Partnerships).” ” That figure is K12 Inc founder Ron Packard.

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43