Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

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OER Learning Analytics Analysis Course 63

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.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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.).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. The program will focus on nonprofits that help refugees, which will be able to apply for fee waivers to access the Coursera course catalog.” ’” LOL job titles.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.” turns the most low-income students into top earners.”

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