Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. And this process of making OER more effective every semester – also known as “continuous improvement” – is where we see some of the most exciting opportunities to collaborate with faculty.

OER 114

OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 114

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

I usually feature them on this blog under the banner of 10Q - ten questions. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. This is particularly true of the sort of learners you might want to reach with MOOCs (people who cannot access normal higher education for instance).

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.”

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Subscribe to their blog. They’re amazing. . Not sure anyone else did.)

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tech devices won't fix our education system | Lockport Union Sun & Journal → Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently issued a plea for greater student access to high-tech tools. "This " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

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.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” The program will focus on nonprofits that help refugees, which will be able to apply for fee waivers to access the Coursera course catalog.” ” Grit ™ – a blog post about a trademarked grit product by Pearson , of course. “Can U.S.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60