Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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OER Software Company Twitter 170

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

Digital Badges 86

Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 86

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar.

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OER Edmodo E-rate Libraries 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Online case studies highlight OER implementation in schools. SETDA has published a series of case studies focused on the implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) at the school level. SETDA encourages state, district and school leaders to leverage this work as they launch and expand OER initiatives.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 78

K12 Open Ed

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s time for education to move past standardization and textbooks. Several conversations lately have made me ponder the importance of community understanding and support for various new initiatives like open learning and OER adoption. This relates to OER as well.

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OER Common Core Trends Outcomes 100

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Where does open education stand in 2016? On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. We touched on the just-concluded Open Education Global Conference in Krakow, which Cable found to be very higher education focused. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION.

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Where does open education stand in 2016? On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. We touched on the just-concluded Open Education Global Conference in Krakow, which Cable found to be very higher education focused. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION.

Trends 40

Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. What’s In This Year’s Edition The Horizon Report aims to identify themes and challenges in higher education and technology, and predict which trends may materialize in the near future.

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Report OER Trends Industry 63

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. If correctly implemented, it can make e-learning an extensive new way of education and provide an all-around scope. It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device.

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MOOC Gamification OER Smartphone 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Or at least, edited.

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Industry OER Course Company 95

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures.

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

” What does open education mean for higher education? After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. However, most people remain unaware of OER. “We are in the learning century!”

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Microsoft Education’s new (and free) Reading Progress application promises to be a game changer and I would get ready to introduce it to your faculty early in the school year. Educators choose and upload reading passages–in either Word or PDF formats–including licensed ReadWorks content, as Teams assignments.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I have a chapter about open educational resources that will be appearing in a book on trends and issues in instructional design and technology later this year. So here it is (with some links added to improve readability): Education is sharing. Ideas, knowledge, skills, and attitudes are public goods.

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Resources OER Secondary Education 60

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A minority are interested, but the majority prefer traditional (print) materials, with powerful implications for the intersection of technology and higher education. Consequently, many of the students who might benefit most from lower-cost digital and OER course materials are not able to do so.”.

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OER Study Survey Education 40

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

The director of EDUCAUSE ELI describes six major trends (he calls them “trajectories”) for technology and education. It’s a very impressive article, packing a lot of insight into a short space. Malcolm Brown begins with three major drivers: personalization, hybrid learning, and big data. Read what follows carefully.

Technology 40

Technology LMS OER Learning Analytics 40

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. That's an all-time high, and a big increase since the fall of 2015, when only 3 percent of students reported downloading free course materials.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 133

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

June 17, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) announced that Dr. Karen Richardson, Executive Director, Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Candice Dodson Influencer Award (CDIA).

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Advocacy OER Trends Conference 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 91

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Through the OER Commons platform, teachers can search for thousands of lessons or create and share their own. Professional learning KQED Education.

EdTech 66

EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Open-licensed learning materials have generally been slower to carve out a spot in the K-12 market they have in higher education, where companies like Lumen Learning have found target demographics. Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend.

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Resources OER Pearson Common Core 79

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Purdue and Kaplan University stunned the higher education world. What will be the most important new innovative practice in higher education in 2018? What will be the most important technological development in higher education in 2018? The last year certainly turned in its share of surprises. So what will 2018 bring?

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OER Knewton Kaplan Company 83

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures.

Moodle 40

Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

Before the Internet, educational materials were printed, making them scarce resources. Scarcity was a defining attribute of educational resources. Since the Internet, educational materials have become digital, making them abundant resources. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.).

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OER Software Outcomes Smartphone 60

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts. Her remarks.) .”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Department of Justice opposing the proposed merger of two of the world’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The 49-page brief argues that the merger would hurt competition, limit innovation and could lead to an eventual “platform monopoly” in education, just as Facebook dominates social networking.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 83

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at OECD, warns that this analysis “should not be used as an ‘excuse’ not to use technology, but as a spur to finding a more effective approach”. There are a wide variety of resources available including Youtube for Schools and Google for Education. Digitally Mature Students.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. We caught a few tidbits—take a look below. WHAT ARE TEACHERS EXCITED ABOUT?

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 107

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Yet there is clearly a gap between how educators and entrepreneurs perceive “personalized learning” and many other technology-infused terms in education. Few education entrepreneurs today would suggest that technology should or will replace the teacher. (In In fact, Quartz suggests that education services are the.

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Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 81

Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

As K-12 educators, you face unique challenges when it comes to using the Web. With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media.

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

As K-12 educators, you face unique challenges when it comes to using the Web. With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media.

OER 40

OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

In addition, previous Horizon domain areas beyond higher education are on the table (“We’ll be exploring those soon.”). For “Mid-Term Trends: (three to five years)” the report found “Proliferation of Open Educational Resources” and “The Rise of New Forms of Interdisciplinary Studies.”

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Report Trends Robotics OER 46

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia. Heading to ISTE?

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Tools How To Classroom OER 105