Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 21, 2019
OER advocacy, like most work, is filled alternately with advances and setbacks. For example, I’ve been co-writing OER textbooks with students since my Spring 2005 course Advanced Topics in Learning Object Design and Reuse, followed by Project Management for Instructional Designers , and then An Open Education Reader.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
JANUARY 18, 2023
Between 2005 and 2007, productivity increased by 41% and employee turnover decreased by 90%. We might think of the following as examples of student autonomy: Playlists and self-paced learning. For example, it is hard to focus on what choices we do maintain as teachers when so many parts feel inequitable.
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Iterating Toward Openness
MAY 8, 2019
” This is not the first example, nor will it be the last example, of peer-reviewed research demonstrating that OER plus a system that provides opportunities to engage in online interactive practice results in better student learning than OER alone. Scheines, Leinhardt, Smith, Cho, (2005).
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.
Edsurge
APRIL 15, 2024
Only about 14 percent of families eligible for the child care subsidies are actually enrolled in the program, according to a report from the First Five Years Fund, a child care and early learning advocacy group. But that’s not how it works for students on subsidies in half of U.S.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2017
For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. Open enrollment schools are open to all students who live in the city, regardless of street address or skill level. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.
Edsurge
JUNE 7, 2023
I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. I would leave her my card so she could call me if she wished to learn more,” Martinez offered as an example.
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