Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, both the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and Lumen Learning use OER this way. These more sophisticated prompts might be able to direct a large language model to act as a highly skilled tutor in an extended teaching interaction with a student, for example. 2016; Koedinger, et al.,

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” For example, Stephen talks about willingness to pay. All integrated cohesively within the LMS. ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

About Instructional Designers I think a lot of people believe that instructional designers are the people who are really good at using the campus LMS – folks who can create new course shells for faculty, help faculty get their content uploaded into the LMS, and maybe even help with a little multimedia editing and production.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

“Education is going to be a powerful example of the potential of VR,” he said. iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” Via The Atlantic : “How ‘ Daycare ’ Became ‘ School ’ ” Via Edutechnica : “4th Annual LMS Data Update.”

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations? Doesn’t that seem small?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. Some of these areas that are popular for investment do coincide with the popular narratives about “the future of education” – “everyone should learn to code,” for example.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Verge offers its “ Back to School Guide 2016 ,” which includes a $235 backpack and a $42 mug if you need an example of how woefully out-of-touch tech journalists can be. ” Edutechnica has new data on LMS trends , including installations and migrations. ” Via Fast Company : “How Musical.ly

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