Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
How We Got Here In 1998, when I launched the OpenContent project and the first open license for educational materials and other creative works (that weren’t software), I encouraged anyone and everyone to openly license anything they were willing to openly license.
Neo LMS
AUGUST 2, 2018
Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. Focus: Digital Learning Advocacy and Research. The offline version need only be downloaded once onto a seed device, and the seed device is then able to connect via a local network to distribute it. FLE also have a device grant program to enable the distribution of the software.
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Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 9, 2018
We know that in parallel contexts, like open source software or Wikipedia, long-term sustainability can be possible with only a tiny fraction of all the beneficiaries of the open work contributing directly. In a more nuanced version, they don’t believe companies should be able to benefit from OER without giving something back.
edWeb.net
APRIL 23, 2022
Teachers can no longer download any app they want and use it the same day—every piece of instructional technology must be vetted for how it relates to educational goals and checked against software the school already has. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.
techlearning
JUNE 21, 2018
Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.
Education Superhighway
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
As a former teacher, tech coordinator, and chief technology officer, Jennifer Bergland now leads advocacy efforts as the Director of Governmental Relations at Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA). I got an Apple IIe computer and we had free open source software programs for our kids.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Common Sense Privacy Evaluations Common Sense, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization, maintains a database that evaluates edtech tools on whether they are safe for use in schools. Exodus publicizes how many trackers—or software that collects data about users and their usage—and permissions are found in each app.
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