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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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GlobalEdCon 13 - Final Day + Global Education Declaration

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag # globaled13. Mitchell II, CEO/ Executive Director The Olympic Games 2012, working collaboratively in a globalize world to develop cultural awareness.Connecting classroom programme. Recordings of all sessions are available here.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify. Access and convenience remain major motivations that bring learners to open content. After discussion via chat and Twitter we settled on professional development. However, most people remain unaware of OER.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.”