The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Just a few days away, our third Library 2.021 mini-conference, " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Just two weeks away, our third Library 2.021 mini-conference, " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Remember OER resources provide curriculum that: Makes learning more authentic by giving the teacher the ability to localize learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2021

The first Library 2.021 | Seguimos Creando Enlaces conference, " Civic Engagement in Action, " takes place next Thursday and Friday, March 25th and 26th. The final hour-by-hour schedule has been published and lots of details are below. Be sure to register (free) in order to attend.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. There is clearly a disconnect here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We hope you'll consider joining our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). (We Please also join the Library 2.0

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. 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. This wonderful OER makes it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), Things to consider: provide a safe environment for your “play area” in the library. Incorporating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Libraries.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resources that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations. National Geographic Explorer – Bring National Geographic to your classroom through lesson plans, maps, and reference resources.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This skill is often referred to as "transliteracy." In this focused conversation, we will address the roles and responsibilities of libraries regarding the protections of intellectual freedom, privacy, free speech, information access, and freedom of the press. We're still taking session submissions!

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

As I wrote last month: Efficacy refers to whether a drug demonstrates a health benefit over a placebo or other intervention when tested in an ideal situation, such as a tightly controlled clinical trial. I believe we’re seeing this same effect across OER adoptions, and have labeled it the Remix Hypothesis.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Several participants pointed out limitations on faculty time which block creation and even adoption of OER. For example , Kristin Vogel : “Libraries ally, champion and offer expertise on this very value. Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability. Good things are happening and possible.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The FDA uses more specific language: Efficacy refers to whether a drug demonstrates a health benefit over a placebo or other intervention when tested in an ideal situation, such as a tightly controlled clinical trial. In “the real world” the drug cured less than one tenth of one percent of patients. So how effective is the drug?

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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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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” Students would be required to pay.

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