Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning. Source: EdSurge.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015. Go To Class | Next Session : 3rd May, 2015. Go To Class | Next Session : 4th May, 2015. A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study. Go To Class | ★★★★★ ( 3 ratings ) | Next Session : 4th May, 2015. by Class Central. via Canvas.net.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

These changes usually incorporate new findings in a field of study, or reflect recent events. According to a study by U.S. higher education courseware sales in 2015. Studies have shown that publishers previously justified raising prices by bundling textbooks with supplemental software that are rarely used.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

A major publisher recently announced a new initiative designed to study the efficacy of the materials they sell to students. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). – the core content infrastructure supporting education is shifting rapidly toward OER. And that’s terrific.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

And this year’s predictions range from the abstract, such as “advancing cultures of innovation,” to more specific ones like an increasing appearance of new interdisciplinary studies on campus. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's an all-time high, and a big increase since the fall of 2015, when only 3 percent of students reported downloading free course materials. That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

When EdSurge checked the collection in July, the site listed about 3,600 materials for Social Studies, and now shows about the same. Peters says that some states ended up deciding to pick other platforms, like OER Commons , in their efforts to organize and review open materials created or used by their teachers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

The English language arts department debuted its curriculum in the 2015-16 school year, and the math, science and social studies departments will introduce curricula during each consecutive school year.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Commit to Long-term Sustainability.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. As per a study, 65% of students have skipped buying required textbooks at some point. These are basically free.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. In the last quarter of 2015, they released their findings in “ Students Computers and Learning: Making the Connection”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Black-box software, as OER pioneer and Lumen Learning’s Chief Academic Officer, David Wiley writes, “reduce all the richness and complexity of deciding what a learner should be doing to—sometimes literally— a ‘Next’ button.”. This is a mistake. It took a lawsuit to get Google to stop scanning students’ emails.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

The accelerator is a partnership formed in 2015 between Pasadena, CA-based nonprofit Michelson 20MM Foundation and San Francisco incubator Runway. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). Educators can customize courses and monitor student progress.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Peak Performance Mathematics Bridge Program —a six-week summer course for students who place below the first math class in their chosen field of study. In 2015, nearly 500 students participated in the program and 56 percent improved their math placement at least one level; one student jumped four levels.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

schools in the third quarter of 2015 were Chromebooks. Curriculum Foundry also provides districts with a searchable repository of high-quality, vetted and tagged open educational resources (OER) and other free digital resources. Authors can search by standard, grade, subject and item to identify just the right resource.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Next Generation Courseware Challenge project in fall 2014, and began implementing Smart Sparrow ’s BioBeyond technology in spring 2015. This has allowed students to experience studying biology lab and lecture as a whole as opposed to approaching the course as two separate entities. Bruce Johnson: CPCC joined a Gates Foundation-funded.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

PO: Now, with regard to math practice problems or studying math in general, I actually use the same philosophy. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. What makes Expii unique?

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

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. state-level policies relating to open education.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated. Image credits.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' Early efforts at openness, including the British Open University , were about removing barriers to study - this university became known as the 'university of the second chance'.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Ray Henderson (@readmeray) October 14, 2015. Now, to be fair, according to the case study the average test scores in the class using the product improved by 14%. The questions themselves that are asked and answered in the case studies are quite reasonable. That’s a fight I know OER can win. Efficacy and Comparisons.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Be on the lookout for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. Another student could find photographs of places or inventions he wants to study and then create augmented reality-triggered videos of himself explaining what he’s learned.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. It seemed like lots of people wanted to publish and share their own OER, but no one wanted to use anyone else’s.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

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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). A 2015 regulation by the U.S. It kept going on and on” Hardee said resolving the issue took time away from his studies.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Today some 600 higher-ed institutions are developing entire CBE degree programs in career-related fields of study like biomedical sciences and criminal justice. And in 2015, the Obama administration tapped LeBlanc to advise Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell on competency-based education. earlier this month.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

SAMR -Many teachers have studied the SAMR Model. Digital Curriculum… 24 OER (Open Edu Resources) Free. Top 40 2015 – Coming Soon. TIM – Take a look at this amazing program from the University of Southern Florida. Be sure to note the included matrix and resources This site provides a wonderful look at Blended Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Open Source and OER ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic! Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ? Lifelong Learning ? Music Education

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Associate Professor, Co-Director of Asian Studies, Adelphi University | Jan Dormer, Ph.D., Hawkesdale P12 College Let’s Hangout – Successful Student Study Groups – Snacks Optional , Candy R. TESOL Instructor and Practicum Supervisor at Touro College, Founder and Managing Director at Virtual Exchange 4 Change | Cristina Zaccarini, Ph.D.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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 Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

The** Department of Education** has selected the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education to manage its #GoOpen campaign. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Online education provider Udacity quietly drops money-back pledge for those who can’t find a job after finishing their studies.”

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via The Monitor : “Less than a year after classes formally began at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley , a ‘culture of fear is pervasive’ on campus that is exacerbated by poor communication by the administration, concludes a recent white paper study produced by the university’s faculty senate.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” weeks in 2015.” More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

According to a study conducted by College Board researchers , “The subgroups of students expected to enter the college-search process with the most information and most cultural capital are exactly the students who responded most strongly to the Scorecard.” So who does the College Scoreboard really serve?

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