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CommonLit: OER Curation and Creation

NeverEndingSearch

As librarians, wehn we gear up for a new school year, it’s exciting to have a few new strategies for engaging learners with literature and for building our own literature discovery/selection toolkit. Note that each theme offers age-appropriate strategies, leveled readings and activities for examining the essential questions.

OER 40
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Current List of Sessions for the Upcoming "Teaching and Learning with AI" Summit

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She also runs a Facebook learning community to allow instructors to learn from each other: [link]. She is a professor in English and Technical Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma who has been exploring the impact of generative AI on writing classrooms.

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"Teaching and Learning with AI:" New Keynote Panelist (Dr. Tazin Daniels) + Current Proposals

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She also runs a Facebook learning community to allow instructors to learn from each other: [link]. Thornburg Center ( Link to proposal ) K-12 Open Education Resources: How Librarians Can Use AI and OER Together : Julie Erickson, Chief Learning Officer, LanCrew Colorado ( Link to proposal ) How big is the AI advantage for student creators?

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Why ‘Personalized Learning’ Can Feel So Impersonal

Edsurge

Black-box software, as OER pioneer and Lumen Learning’s Chief Academic Officer, David Wiley writes, “reduce all the richness and complexity of deciding what a learner should be doing to—sometimes literally— a ‘Next’ button.”. This is a mistake.

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What Happened to Amazon Inspire, the Tech Giant’s Education Marketplace?

Edsurge

Some wonder when it will be open to the wider education community (and what the company’s broader education strategy is). At the time, the company got a talking to from teachers in comments on its Facebook page for Amazon Education. That official Facebook page for Amazon Education hasn’t been updated since June 30, 2016.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Two decades later, their strategy has clearly paid off: for-profit companies create and contribute to an incredible amount of open source software. releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook.

OER 86
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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. 2:00 p.m.

MOOC 60