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Let’s Teach in Pajamas Forever

The Jose Vilson

Contrary to my own public activism and advocacy, I propose that we move the nation’s largest public school system into a completely online endeavor forever and a day. I’d definitely want a principal who can lead the school and rally their staff from their houses. It’s even a boon for kids.

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Self as OER

ProfHacker

When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., Some examples of open scholarship based on this definition can be publishing an article in an open access journal, teaching a MOOC, and joining a Twitter hashtag to chat about an educational issue.

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

The Hechinger Report

But payment caps can be as high as three times the funded amount, according to a 2020 report by the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group. In its March announcement, the Department of Education declared that ISAs are by definition private education loans.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? ” Nothing remotely like that has ever been included in my definition of open.

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

Neo LMS

I therefore thought that a definitive quick reference guide to the major players, with a brief description would be a handy resource for our readers. Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. Focus: Digital Learning Advocacy and Research. FLE also have a device grant program to enable the distribution of the software.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. Whatever “it” is. ” Instead, it said it would offer some diagnostic tools online.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” The Linux operating system is one of the most incredible success stories of the open source software movement. Let’s keep chasing this. Second point.

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