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?OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. Here’s Why They Should

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With course materials averaging around $1,200 per year , many colleges over the past decade have adopted open educational resources (OER) to cut costs for students. Wiley—which looked at almost 5,000 undergraduates using OER at ten colleges and universities. This isn’t uncommon.

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New Posted Resources 10/11/2011

The Web20Classroom

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?Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans

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IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. As part of a new IBM philanthropic initiative, the supercomputer is helping to power a searchable database of open educational math resources designed for teachers in grades K-5.

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Dreaming bigger for Iowa education

Dangerously Irrelevant

The issues from our 2011 Iowa, Did You Know? What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? Bottom line.

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Thinking About Impact

Iterating Toward Openness

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. Valenza, J.K. TechLearning. Valenza, J.K. It’d be Really Dumb Not to Use It. Chapter in Mary K.

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

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Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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