The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. There’s more bad OER out there than good; that’s a fact,” said Rebecca Kockler, assistant superintendent of academic instruction for the state of Louisiana, at the annual SXSWedu conference last week in Austin, Texas. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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OER Pearson System Assessment 60

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. Edward Watson.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. In recent years, Dror-Naim says his team has been building the next iteration of its adaptive course-creation tool. million last year from the U.S.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 96

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 191

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. — Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) July 13, 2017. I’d like to reproduce them here, edited very lightly. Does that debate interest you at all?

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials. in 1962.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 123

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” approach to updating its higher ed course materials, meaning that any revisions or changes to textbook content will happen first in the digital version. A bundle that includes access to its other online tools, including MyLab and Mastering, costs about $79.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. UGA first partnered with Rice University’s OpenStax to deliver content for introductory biology courses in 2013. According to C. Not Just the Text.

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OER Software Course Study 71

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Winners will be notified in early September and announced at OLC Accelerate 2017 , which takes place in Orlando, November 15–17.) 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. Success, of course, breeds success. The result?

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 83

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Finding the right tool to match the verb can take a bit of research. Quick Notes.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. The overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the 2017 school year was nearly $9 billion below its 2008 level, after adjusting for inflation. These are basically free.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources : Can free and open educational resources (OER) save students money without compromising their content or value? to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

House Bill 1915, which would establish a clearinghouse of federally approved online courses for students in grades 6 to 12, garnered unanimous support in the House Education Committee on Monday. The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

There’s also Pluralsight, a provider of tech-training courses that analysts bet will hit the public market soon. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. Department of Education) and David Wiley (the.

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 70

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. — Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) July 13, 2017. I’d like to reproduce them here, edited very lightly. Does that debate interest you at all?

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40

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. Reiser & J.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

One new category of tool schools are experimenting with is. These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Tell me how the tool works. adaptive technology.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. 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.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” “ OER , Capability, and Opportunity” by David Wiley. Via Edsurge : “ OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool.” ” “OER is about to become for course planning what LMS is for grading,” which frankly sounds awful.

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OER Education Robotics LMS 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. But that’s not my job.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in December 2016 and is re-posted here with permission. __ What was hot in educational technology in 2016 and what are some cool new things that are on the horizon for 2017? But these are just my opinions.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

.” A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg toured hurricane-struck Puerto Rico in virtual reality [link] pic.twitter.com/BEPfZesjF7 — The Verge (@verge) October 9, 2017. ” Sham courses. “ Can VR be a tool for inspiring empathy in higher ed? And of course, there’s an app for that. for Esports ?

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? MOOCs are not particularly "open." last year to 63.3%

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Then, of course, what we understand is we have to give them more basic questions that they have a better chance on. 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? Follow the hashtag to learn more.

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Classroom OER Software System 222

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

In this series I will provide thoughts and free resources to help you make Blended and eLearning with of course face to face a PBL possibility. Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. How do teachers and students learn about and employ these tools?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We currently have 10 keynotes and 130 regular sessions scheduled over the course of three days. This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. LOTS of information below! The entire virtual conference is held online. Kristin Hundt, Teacher. Global Citizen. Mowen, MS Ed.,

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

In fiscal 2017, the office was funded to employ 569 staff members, according to the department’s budget request from earlier this year.” link] — Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) November 16, 2017. Huh, I missed the bit about forcibly displacing the poor in Zuckerberg's great manifesto on communitarian philanthropy.

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Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Stanford University’s Larry Cuban continues his analysis of behavioral management tool ClassDojo. ” (Yes, I’m tracking on this sort of thing as part of my 2017 “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” The NAACP endorses OER. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

.” Christian school @BetsyDeVosED is visiting in her #trumpbudget ad doesn't accept special education students [link] pic.twitter.com/OYN49iCgrK — Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) May 23, 2017. ” University of Colorado Denver students can earn college credit by taking courses at the coding bootcamp Galvanize.

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Education Data Report Software 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Raw Story : “BUSTED: Trump Treasury pick took 4-week course on Dartmouth campus and called it a degree.” Via Chalkbeat : “New York City’s largest school charter network, Success Academy , has won the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.” Jordan sign on to Atlanta school cheating movie.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

The Girl Who Drank the Moon , written by Kelly Barnhill, is the 2017 Newbery Medal winner. Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat , illustrated by Javaka Steptoe is the 2017 Caldecott Medal winner. Via Campus Technology : “ Unizin Partners with Cengage to Offer Discounted Course Materials.”

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