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Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free—and Be Financially Sustainable?

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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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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. More and more schools have gone 1:1 thanks to the cost-effectiveness of the Chromebook and cloud-based tools. Have you heard of it?

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New Report Sheds Light on Higher Ed’s Innovation Challenges

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Now, she says, the use of technology in learning has created more of a need to put money behind innovation. OLC’s Buban says that the online environment is “ripe for innovation” because there are many opportunities to be “inclusive of education technology,” such as digital courseware and OER. Evangeline J.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

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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Why American higher education faculty tend to resist digital materials: new study

Bryan Alexander

A minority are interested, but the majority prefer traditional (print) materials, with powerful implications for the intersection of technology and higher education. Put another way, the classroom use of digital materials is a very divided space, and progress towards the digital is slow. ” Think about that.

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

Edsurge

First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. We caught a few tidbits—take a look below. THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. And then, there’s Amazon.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.