Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education.

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 63

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. I know NMC staff started researching examples for our findings, and drafting parts of the report itself. The announcement’s language suggests the site will go away, at least in its current, accessible form. As Kim Pearson quickly realized, This is a shock.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. I know NMC staff started researching examples for our findings, and drafting parts of the report itself. The announcement’s language suggests the site will go away, at least in its current, accessible form. As Kim Pearson quickly realized, This is a shock.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” Historiography is hard, but undoubtedly easier in the internet age, which has made primary sources more accessible than ever. But you need to teach them how to think.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. What will happen to encryption , for example? Or maybe it was a reality TV show.

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