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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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

OER Commons , The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ) it is clear that there is tendency to equate open educational resources to open educational materials and tools , such as course materials in text, audio, or video format, open textbooks, and educational software. Narrated practice: This might include making our own processes explicit.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Indeed, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has paid for some of that very press coverage, funding for example “an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.”

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Updates Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Kudos Updates GlobalEdCon Celebration and Meetup Reminder. See examples of how Shannon and I are doing it (poetry summit, virtual debate, author visits, class vista etc). Click here to register. Join via Blackboard Collaborate here.

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Libraries Google Common Core Conference 51

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? “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.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

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. The Flipped Classroom".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145