Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

I’ve been writing this article 30 minutes here and 60 minutes there for several months (WordPress tells me I saved the first bits in March). This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’

OER 162

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 162

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). And there's the fact that surveys show many students still prefer printed textbooks to digital ones. Who Owns Student Data?

Pearson 96

Pearson OER Course Accessibility 96

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The twenty assessments include: Evaluating Wikipedia : Students evaluate the trustworthiness of an article on Wikipedia, assessing whether they can reason about the specific features that make a Wikipedia article more or less reliable. Comparing Articles : Students determine whether a news story or a sponsored post is more reliable.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. National) Education Politics.

Education 44

Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” From the article: Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to ensure that education has a chance to flourish in VR. iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” “ Deloitte Publishes 2016 Digital Education Survey,” says Edsurge. (Dead) Lady Macbeth? Also dead) Ophelia?

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

Conference 72

Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145