Learning with 'e's
DECEMBER 25, 2011
On this occasion, I was delighted to be invited to keynote the Northern Grid for Learning Annual Conference, and what an event it was! In March I attended the JISC annual conference in Liverpool, for once purely as a delegate rather than as a speaker. Full story here: The next ten years. Auckland, New Zealand.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L.
Iterating Toward Openness
DECEMBER 3, 2015
The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.” From 2003 – 2008 I focused on the evangelism problem. What is our long-term goal?
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. Founded by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Edsurge ’s Tony Wan asked in 2016.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 6, 2016
The spending at public four-year colleges and universities rose, on average, by 2 to 3%, “the largest such increase since the start of the recession in 2008.” There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. of courses use OER. I was skeptical then ; I am skeptical now.
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