Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Effective Advocacy. They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook.

OER 80

OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

MOOC 60

MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

But Large Language Models (LLMs), and particularly the recent demo of ChatGPT, seem to have put the fear of God into everyone from middle school English teachers to the CEO of Google. And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well.

OER 195

OER LMS Resources Course 195

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information?

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. ” In other Microsoft/Minecraft news , the company will donate $10,000 to the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics to build a Minecraft Lab at a local school. .” ” Upgrades and Downgrades. public schools.”

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. The CEO has resigned.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40