Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

How We Got Here In 1998, when I launched the OpenContent project and the first open license for educational materials and other creative works (that weren’t software), I encouraged anyone and everyone to openly license anything they were willing to openly license. 2016; Koedinger, et al., 2018 ; Van Campenhout, et al.,

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Strategy OER Education Policies 158

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

“You find a PDF of an open textbook for your class, you upload it into your LMS, and you’re done!” They’ll just write their own LMS, practice system, analytics, or other replacement tools themselves. — Bogdan Botezatu (@bbotezatu) August 25, 2016. “How much easier could it be?”

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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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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors. According to projections, revenues for LMS products are expected to drop to $1.5

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Students and teachers using the platform have access to and work within Google Suite products including Docs, Sheets, Slides and more. Updates and Upgrades: Apple Classroom officially hit the app store in March 2016. Though free to download, Classroom must be configured with mobile device management (MDM) software (like.

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Microsoft Google Classroom Schoology 133

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

He then put their raw responses into a software program, and was astounded to find that the most frequently mentioned word was “irrelevant.”. In order to extract the maximum benefit from the new design Vista realized they were on the wrong side of the digital divide , with many student’s families not having access to the Internet.

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Learning Digital Divide Case Study Personalized Learning 150

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

He then put their raw responses into a software program, and was astounded to find that the most frequently mentioned word was “irrelevant.”. In order to extract the maximum benefit from the new design Vista realized they were on the wrong side of the digital divide , with many student’s families not having access to the Internet.

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Learning Digital Divide Case Study Personalized Learning 150

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 69

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 56

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

The company found that while the camps have shown promise, most of their graduates weren’t prepared for software engineering without additional training or prior experience, Maggie Johnson, Google’s director of education and university relations, said in an email. “Can You Buy a New Job? Because Stanford.

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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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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

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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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

One pays a fee for the right to register (and renew) a domain name for a website; one likely also pays a fee to a company that hosts the files for that website so that it is accessible over the network. One pays a fee to access the network. These fees must all be paid monthly or annually to maintain access and functionality.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

(I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. Via the MIT Technology Review : “ AT&T Is Selling Law Enforcement Access to Its Customers’ Data.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Blackboard Study on How Instructors Use the LMS.”

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Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Today I’m celebrating my friend Jennifer Gonzalez’s 2016 The Teacher’s Guide to Tech. Haiku Learning (my LMS). ” More people access the Internet with mobile phones than with computers. Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. I highly recommend this book.

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Tools EdTech Haiku Learning Classroom 120

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” From the organization’s press release : the NAACP “ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice.” Through an LMS. Sounds super fun. million total.

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Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

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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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 ” “ University of Wisconsin System to Migrate From D2L Brightspace to Canvas LMS” by Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Data and “Research” Analytics software Tableau offers its report on “The State of Data Education in 2016.” ” Edutechnica is giving away data about LMS usage for Australia, Canada, and the UK. Mindwires Consulting is selling their report on the European LMS market.

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Education Report Android Libraries 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. .” ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. The quackery in 2016 wasn’t new, in other words, but it was notable.

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Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) December 13, 2016. Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill says this is the “price of faculty not using LMS.” ” Rather, it’s the price of deciding that “proof” of online education requires the LMS. ” Via Slate : “ Wrongful Arrest by Software.”

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Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. ” I look forward to the opinion pieces on how Workplace by Facebook will replace the LMS. Via The Washington Post : “ Facebook-backed school software shows promise – and raises privacy concerns.”

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. in 2016 on a student visa.” That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. ” asks Pacific Standard.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “ Salesforce will start selling its online learning platform, which has helped its own employees change roles and get promotions,” says MIT Technology Review , going with the wonderful lie in the headline “Making Job-Training Software People Actually Want to Use.” ” asks MIT Technology Review.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” CSS pic.twitter.com/JYyabJDAS3 — Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) June 6, 2016. Via Inside Higher Ed : “For-profit Ashford University , facing loss of access to GI Bill benefits by month’s end, needs approval from a state to stop thousands of student veterans from losing aid.” ” asks Edsurge.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

” Via Xconomy : “ Coding Dojo , which runs software development bootcamps in San Jose, Seattle, and other cities, will be offering some of its programming courses at Bellevue College near Seattle this fall in what it hopes will be the first of several college partnerships.” ” Meanwhile on Campus. “Anybody.”

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