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OERwashing: Beyond the Elephant Test

Doug Levin

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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Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Bryan Alexander

On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. Twitter discussion went well, so I Storified it here. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER.

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Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11

Bryan Alexander

On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. Twitter discussion went well, so I Storified it here. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER.

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SETDA Names Dr. Karen Richardson the Recipient of the 2021 Candice Dodson Influencer Award

eSchool News

The recipient of the Candice Dodson Influencer Award was selected through a competitive application process and was presented to Dr. Richardson during the 2021 SETDA Emerging Trends Forum on June 15, 2021. For more information, please visit our website [link] or Twitter @setda.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify. However, most people remain unaware of OER.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow.

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Further reflections on EDUCAUSE 2015

Bryan Alexander

Many quiet signs of OER. ” On Twitter I asked her for access to the slides, and she promptly webbed them up. And Twitter! Not all the way, but watch this trend. I don’t know, honestly, if this group is isolated from some political and cultural trends, or just focused very practically in what I saw.

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