Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. To the best of my knowledge there is no one really working on next gen OER—OER that are interactive, simulative, really rich with multimedia AND combined with OAR [open assessment resources] that drive diagnosis, remediation, and adaptation. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.”

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OER Pearson LMS Robotics 65

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web. IOCS is aligned to select Common Core Curriculum standards for language arts literacy, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NET.S

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OER Resources Education MOOC 199

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. Thus, replacing expensive textbooks with technology in the classroom is the right thing to do in the current scenario. The teachers can customize an OER and include modules that they feel would benefit the students.

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OER Chegg Technology Pearson 67

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Pearson LMS Edmodo Technology 67

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos.

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OER Schoology Resources Common Core 120

Leadership Lounge

APRIL 10, 2017

In this series on educational technology game changers, I focused my first blog on one-to-one computing initiatives. Next I'll look at open educational resources (OER), because once all students have digital devices, they can access digital OER.

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OER Resources Survey Mobility 56

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform.

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Knewton Company Pearson OER 93

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. Larsen says this is a common criticism of OER textbooks, particularly among the conventional textbook industry, and he argues that errors in conventional textbooks are also reasonably high—and after all, he adds, the errors in conventional textbooks were the reason he started LibreText in the first place.

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Accessibility OER eBook Survey 124

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Or, with its penchant for amnesia , has education technology already forgotten? MOOCs were, for a year or two at least, able to dominate conversations about the future of education and the future of education technology, often invoking the words “free” and “open” as a rallying cry against institutions and practices that were, in contrast, “expensive” and “closed.” of courses use OER.

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MOOC OER Coursera Khan Academy 62

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In addition to the sets directly relating to theme or time period are primary source sets connected to popularly studied literary titles, like Sherman Alexie’s 2007 award-winning, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

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OER Study Groups Resources 58

hem.digital

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The focus of digital higher education during the previous decade was overwhelmingly on the technology itself - learning management systems, bandwidth, faculty literacy with technology, student technology support, and so forth.

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OER LMS Trends Tablets 46

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

These include: play, collaborative exploration of ideas and technologies, and other innovations. He presents to both national and international audiences about emerging technologies, learning, innovation, and libraries. and Beyond” (2007, Libraries Unlimited).

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OER Blackboard Libraries Conference 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Clint Carlson, Director of Education Technology, Istanbul International Community School When Curie Meets Cassatt: Infusing the Engineering Design Process for Global Teaching and Learning , Dr. Helen Teague, Adjunct Professor, Concordia University + Grand Canyon University Where Do We Grow From Here?:

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Conference Secondary STEM OER 74

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. It’s not that paying for a piece of technology will treat you any better, mind you.). But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

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Pearson MOOC Knewton Khan Academy 114

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? “ Will these four technology trends change education in India?

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MOOC Robotics Company OER 56