The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This post will be a live post of the Microsoft “mini keynote” about Unlocking AI's potential. Link to Session This blog post is sponsored by Microsoft, all opinions are my own. Lydia Smyers, lead for US for Education for Microsoft.

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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). Microsoft and ISTE also plan to work with school in the Microsoft Showcase Schools program to integrate ISTE's standards of edtech integration.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Throughout the past decade, Knewton ’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and venture capital community. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. content providers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. 11:00AM: The Promise of Big Data & Adaptive Learning with Dale Johnson (Arizona State University), Andrew Smith Lewis (Cerego), Dr. Colin Fredericks (HarvardX), Eric Frank (Acrobatiq), James Willey (Ellucian), Jose Ferreira (Bakpax).

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. It’s a partnership with Microsoft. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.”

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