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Beyond Textbooks and OER: reflecting on #OpenEd15

ProfHacker

There has been no shortage of critiques of the open textbook focus at The Open Education Conference #OpenEd15 – I wasn’t at the conference but I followed the Twitter stream and participated in three virtually connecting sessions in which I met both pairs of keynote speakers. — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) November 19, 2015.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Commit to Long-term Sustainability.

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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Be on the look out for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @ mjgormans ). I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Past Series Articles.

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Further reflections on EDUCAUSE 2015

Bryan Alexander

Many quiet signs of OER. ” On Twitter I asked her for access to the slides, and she promptly webbed them up. And Twitter! Overall mood EDUCAUSE 2015 wasn’t very buzzy about new technologies. This might complement, but is different from data analytics. Thank you!) Things were on fire.

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Preview: Books I’ll Be Reading This Summer

ProfHacker

There are three (open access) books I’ve been meaning to read and review, but I realized if I waited until I finished them, it would take a while, so I thought it would be good to post a “preview” here, of why I hope to dip into these books over summer. Jason’s review of Twitter and Tear Gas will come out next month!).

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: August 19, 2017 Cost Shouldn’t Keep Students From Taking AP Exams | Slate → In 2015 the Texas Legislature appropriated $10 million in its budget to develop educational resources that would be available, free of charge, to the more than 1,000 school districts in the state. So, why use a blockchain at all?

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Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 114 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. These are accessible, findable online. What makes Expii unique?

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