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New Posted Resources 10/11/2011

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

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Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5 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. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. million in 2018.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

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There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. According to the American Association of University Professors , in Fall 2011 41.5%

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H?para partners with the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium to offer Student Dashboard Digital Backpack free in Alberta

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Additionally, the platform provides seamless management and distribution of open educational resources ( OER ), licensed content and materials created by school divisions. A key role of ERLC is to facilitate the effective implementation of curricula, including instruction, assessment, and student learning outcomes. Wayne Poncia, CEO.

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Southern New Hampshire University’s Paul LeBlanc Wants Higher Ed to Back Up Its Claims

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On a flight from Kuala Lumpur to New York in 2011 LeBlanc wrote “a little white paper” that set the stage for SNHU’s foray into direct-assessment programs. The game-changing idea here is that when we have assessment right, we should not care how a student achieves learning. SNHU President Paul LeBlanc. earlier this month.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 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. The Flipped Classroom". Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Increased by just 2, but still.).