Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 28, 2018

From their website: OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library since scaled to more than 20 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students.

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OER Adaptive Learning Outcomes Libraries 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The two dominating factors that drive faculty course material decisions are quality and cost. “[One] tenth (11 percent) were using OER materials and 4 percent were currently using OER in their classes and also making their own course materials available as OER.”

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OER Study Survey Education 40

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek brief reported that Amazon Education was beta-testing a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (OER). Rolling out in fall of 2016 and into 2017, the courses will cover as yet undetermined aspects of school leadership. One of the top performers?

Microsoft 110

Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

adaptive technology. 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. Are you using adaptive tools in other courses? Tell me how the tool works.

Learning 60

Learning OER Software Course 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

We’re focusing on higher-ed access and completion and transition into the workforce,” says Michelson 20MM Foundation President Phil Kim. “We Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER).

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OER Company Outcomes Adaptive Learning 60

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? Wikipedia defines the subscription model as a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

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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Adaptive Learning OER Learning Course 76

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. Education’s Proto-Platforms. I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Here’s how Google describes it : “ The Chromebook App Hub , an online resource to help educators, administrators and developers work together to learn about Chromebook apps and activity ideas for schools. Developers Resource Page – a resource page for app developers to access best practices and policies.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

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. 2:00PM: TrumpED: How Will #45 Change the Learning and Work Landscape? Department of Education) and David Wiley (the.

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 71

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

That’s not the story that DeVos wants to tell, of course.). ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.” million total.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Edsurge : “How Udacity Decides What Subjects To Offer Courses In (And Why It Isn’t Doing New University Partnerships).” “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. The Business of Job Training.

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Education Department said this week it will make Pell Grants available to 10,000 high school students who are enrolled in courses at 44 colleges.” ” EdX also announced the for-credit courses, part of its Global Freshman Academy partnership with ASU, that are starting this summer. ” Via NPR : “The U.S.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Humphrey testified that he hired Hubbard on a $7,500-per-month consulting contract to connect him to legislative leaders in other states, as Edgenuity tried to sell digital courses.” Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

And of course current Undersecretary of Education, Ted Mitchell, is a former VC.) From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” Presidential Campaign Politics. weeks in 2015.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Of course none of this – not Africa is a Country’s excellent reporting nor Peg Tyre’s recent story in the NYT – stops Nicholas Kristof from touting Bridge as a “solution.” ” The test in question in ACCESS 2.0 , which recently changed how it was scored. for-profits?”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “ Unizin Partners with Cengage to Offer Discounted Course Materials.” ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Online course marketplace Teachable has raised $4 million from Accomplice Ventures, Naval Ravikant, and Matt Brezina.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40