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

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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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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

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THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. 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. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

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By the way, this resource is excellent for any Google for Education school that uses the Chrome browser, not just Chromebooks! While I can’t actually fit 100 ideas into this blog post and podcast episode, I can offer you a FREE Google Chromebook resource that is loaded with ideas, lessons, apps, and more! Click To Tweet.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.” ” Just make a note of this for the next time you hear someone tout how great the hiring process and work environment are at Google. ” Or, SuperAwesome has launched an app that features kid-friendly video content with a ton of advertising.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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million for English-language instruction videos. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57 Video game company Triseum has raised $1.43 ” Stanford University’s Larry Cuban on “ Proof Points: Selling and Marketing ‘ Blended Learning ’ to Educators and Parents.”