Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Leveled readings —Each of the articles in the course is provided at multiple reading levels to ensure that all students can access and understand the material, enabling them to participate in the class. Full size image here.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Where does open education stand in 2016? He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Where does open education stand in 2016? He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Esri has granted 200,000 students access to its professional online GIS mapping software for doing projects. Microsoft 1) provided over 3 million students with free access to Office 365 in K-12 schools across the U.S., Take Adobe , for example. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

So, for example, sometimes students who are struggling might be on the below end, in the sense that they have an even less than 25% chance of succeeding at these questions. 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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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. A Workforce Shift to Alternative Credentials : There’s a lot of buzz around “alternative credentials” these days.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Conference sessions will include topics related to: Libraries as Inspiration & Catalyst - topics and examples related to how libraries may provide leadership and serve as a model for sustainable practices through facility stewardship, innovative service design, and outreach and partnership practices.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 12:00 pm (PDT): Opening Keynote Panel: Defining the Library as Classroom Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Brian Kenney, Joyce Valenza, and Jessamyn West. There are notable examples of academic, public, and K-12 library spaces that have become creative classrooms. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference Classroom Social Media 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

. …This is key to its advantage over traditional business models when it comes to data, since a platform positions itself (1) between users, and (2) as the ground upon which their activities occur, which thus gives it privileged access to record them. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. Not sure anyone else did.)

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. This is still a very real risk for OER. ” you might ask.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The vice chancellor and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand , in Johannesburg, on Monday issued an unusual plea for help to ‘save the 2016 academic year.’” ” Spoiler alert: not enough access to data.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

. “Every Generation Gets the Beach Villain It Deserves” – The NYT’s Nellie Bowles on tech billionaire Vinod Khosla ’s attempts to restrict access to the California coastline near his mansion. His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Because “open.”).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

She seemed to fail to grasp some of the basics of education policy – the difference between “ proficiency ” and “ growth ,” for example, and the federal rules surrounding disability rights and education. Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.”

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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. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, By 2016, Glam Media, rebranded as Mode Media, shut its doors , transferring ownership of Ning to Cyndx.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. “Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016 ” by Edsurge (which mislabels ISTE as the biggest ed-tech conference in the world). .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

“In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports. (It’ll

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The program will focus on nonprofits that help refugees, which will be able to apply for fee waivers to access the Coursera course catalog.” From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.” ’” LOL job titles.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

" The sustainability of these courses – including the persistence of students’ own work – is precarious at best, as Coursera students discovered when the company informed them it would remove hundreds of old courses, along with their access to their coursework, from its site. The College Affordability Crisis.

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