eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the new device-agnostic classroom, educators are taking the opportunity to ensure they are focused on purposeful applications first, with a secondary emphasis on the device itself. So how can schools ensure that they are creating effective, purposeful learning environments in a device-agnostic classroom?

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. David Wiley, chief academic officer of Lumen Learning The company did not specify a timeframe for how frequently it will print new editions.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In this relationship, open is a set of values and (legal, intellectual, pedagogical, and other) tools that can be employed in the service of improving teaching and learning. In this relationship, improving education is secondary to the goal of being more open. Open will often be useful. Sometimes it will not.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. Apart from rental services, these publishers can earn revenue through banner ads, and also by offering additional learning resources. Some might say that inflation is the cause of rising prices.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws. Pushes like the U.S. The Pennsylvania Legislature is joining the U.S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There is a growing consensus among those who work in open education – including organizations like BC Campus , Creative Commons , the Hewlett Foundation , Lumen Learning , OpenStax , the Open Textbook Network , Rebus , and others – that the Creative Commons Attribution (BY) License is our preferred license.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

For openly-licensed materials, there’s Lumen Learning and OpenStax. For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement. The terms of Nelson’s pending sale of its Canadian higher-ed assets were hashed out fairly quickly.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

The time and effort spent by students trying to find ways to get the learning resources they need to succeed is a huge waste. It’s time they’re spending on school, but time they’re not spending learning. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). And that’s terrific.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While everyone wants educational materials to be less expensive, lower costs are the least interesting thing about digital, networked learning. And obviously, both inclusive access and OER are about solving the cost problem. Keeping the conversation laser-focused on cost is the core of their defensive strategy with regard to OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

That makes the donations ‘nice to have’—but sadly limits the impact that they have on students and learning.” Autodesk provided more than 335,000 students and educators from secondary schools with professional software and services for use in classrooms, labs, and at home.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students? How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students? ” The article poses three questions and answers them.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With the increasing cost of a post-secondary education, many students opt to delay or completely forego purchase of required. Original Image Source … and important steps to help you get there! Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Select schools in Orange County are part of LaunchED, an immersive, connected, and collaborative learning experience providing students with access to world-class digital tools and resources. Alison is an experienced secondary school English teacher, a Florida native and a graduate of the Florida State University. About the Host.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

So, if you are a student whose school is completely reliant on surveillance tools to stop you from seeing genitals or whatever it is they're worried about, then anything you do to learn about how that system works and how to stop it ends running against the school's own core defense mechanism. I wanted to ask you about OERs.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” And I want to do it worldwide… Personally, my goal is not to provide less expensive access to the same teaching and learning experience to more people – access and affordability have never been my end game.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. With Greek secondary education teachers, we are going to talk about evolution teaching, didactics issues concerning this problematic subject for many science teachers.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Stephen has posted Four Conclusions on OERs he has drawn from our conversation. One of the things I’ve learned through this discussion is that some might benefit from the inclusion of a brief disclaimer somewhere on my writing. Let me start with “the goal” of the OER movement. ” Our advocacy.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said. Who Owns Student Data?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. This is still a very real risk for OER. ” you might ask.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 15, 2015

It should be absolutely mandatory reading for every student in a graduate program on educational technology or learning sciences, period. Learning objects are meant to be aggregated into a wide range of larger instructional structures. Over a decade ago I worked through the problems implied by this statement in excruciating detail.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our two-month, free, online summit focused on home-based and home-centered learning officially started last week. Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Sign up now: [link] Whether by circumstance or choice, learning at home is now the reality for more students than ever.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

A Pearson business motto is “content plus assessment, powered by technology, equalizes effective learning at scale,” Fallon said, and after years of striving for that goal, “we only feel that it’s really now starting to come together.”. Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Docente infantil y primaria Stories from the Earth: teaching about changing landscapes using 28 years of satellite observations - Peder Nelson, MS Creating equitable STEM learning opportunities for K-12 girls - Brenda Britsch, Co-Principal Investigator Maps, Math, and Media: Innovative Transdisciplinary Projects in Teacher Education - Melda N.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. These tasks are perfect for learning across the curriculum and especially for librarian-led learning. Among the learning experiences on ten pages packed with lessons are: Civil Rights Movement in Context.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. I spent most of my thinking time last week wondering about obstacles in the way of the ubiquitous adoption of OER in US higher education and how we might overcome them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” “How Can VR be Used for Learning?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” From the press release : “ Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab Release Blockchain Technology for Educational Credentials.” ” “ Lifeliqe debuts VR -enabled educational content to keep kids interested in learning,” says Techcrunch. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

.” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” ” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. .” ” Roy Moore has just been elected Alabama ’s new Senator.

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