Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Students in some courses also had access to lecture video. Readings and lecture videos are fairly straightforward formats to understand.

OER 60

OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Sucheta Kamath is a speech-language pathologist, TEDx speaker, graduate of Leadership Atlanta, and an entrepreneur whose new software ExQ® just launched in the edtech space. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters.

Learning 87

Learning Training Advocacy Strategy 87

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.

OER 40

OER MOOC Conference Advocacy 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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? Is it the new OER whose creation we’ve commissioned?

Accessibility 63

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 63

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. 2016; Koedinger, et al., 2018 ; Van Campenhout, et al.,

Strategy 149

Strategy OER Education Policies 149

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day. podcasts, videos, newsletters, infographics, narrated slides, tutorials, one-pagers), offering flexible meeting times, and leveraging various asynchronous communication methods.

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Technology LMS Professional Learning Advocacy 293

Reading By Example

MARCH 12, 2016

A multimedia presentation, such as an interactive video, doesn’t have to replace the traditional report. Another idea is to allow students to dictate their writing using voice recognition software. In fact, the report could be a prerequisite for the digital-based task which could complement the original writing project.

iPad 28

iPad Software Report Libraries 28

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. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad. K-12 market.

Tools 59

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Kaltura (video) – $166.1 In April, Education Week’s Market Brief reported on a study by the consortium claiming school districts could save billions if they shared with one another the details about what they were paying for hardware and software. Age of Learning (educational apps) – $181.5

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

Epson 53

Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 53

techlearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

28, 2018 – Impero Software’s flagship product , Impero Education Pro, has won a TCEA Best of Show Award from Tech & Learning magazine. Impero, a leading provider of classroom management, network management and online safety software to schools, showcased the newest version of Education Pro (v6.3) Austin, TX, Feb.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Handbook Software Advocacy 40

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

A search in LabXchange would one day pull up a list of videos, text descriptions, infographics and other materials. From that list of results, he says, you might pick three videos and an infographic, and then add a case study focusing on a really moving human story. And the platform lets you add your own videos or texts as well.

MOOC 152

MOOC Knewton Education Adaptive Learning 152

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

Tools 72

Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 72

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic!

Conference 34

Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. “Although it is a great look for me to spend 12 hours napping and 12 hours lounging, it is not a good look for a teenager,” Pele “says” in the video. “So

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Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Students have been blocked from going to websites that web-filtering software categorizes as “education,” “news,” or “informational.” Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.”

Social Media 77

Social Media Libraries Elementary Advocacy 77

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 16, 2016

The Center for Education Reform , a long-time charter school advocacy organization, says innovation and momentum within the sector of independent schools has slowed, and needs an infusion of new ideas that incorporate new strategies drawn from education technology and other areas. Washington, D.C.

Education 40

Education Advocacy Strategy Adaptive Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.

Personalized Learning 102

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 102

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” And his partner Michael Feldstein : “ Student-Centered Educational Software.” ” Good thing no major publications have gone “all in” on video lately, amirite. ” Mindset all the things.

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Newsletters Why : Advocacy, community connections, sharing resources, showcasing student work How : Wakelet , Padlet , Smore , Google Slides, PPT “A newsletter is a wonderful way of advocating [for your library], Holzweiss said. Students can find a video, photo, song, podcast, meme, or gif that illustrates a theme in their book.

Libraries 92

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92

MindShift

MARCH 28, 2020

Some of Jacob’s teachers have sent packets home — one, for a science class, includes a video and a worksheet on wolves — but teachers haven’t included any of the modifications, or “accommodations” he normally gets that are designed to adapt the lessons to his learning style. It’s about life skills.

PresenceLearning 62

PresenceLearning Advocacy Video Software 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

She uses a software program popular among architects and designers. The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” Via CNN : “ YouTube to start labeling videos posted by state-funded media.” ” “ School Shooting Simulation Software (and the Problem with How People Define ‘Ed-Tech’)” by me.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

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. Via Edsurge : “ YouTube Searches Favor Videos That Attack Public Education, Scholar Finds.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. And “free” doesn’t last. billion by 2025.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” “ Video Games Are a Waste of Time? " [link] — Kaitlin Mulhere (@KMulhere) October 30, 2018. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Labor and Management.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

million for English-language instruction videos. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57 Video game company Triseum has raised $1.43 .” “ Manufacturing ’s return creates greater need from higher ed” is some A+ spin from Education Dive and The Wall Street Journal. ABA English has raised $13.7

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” That’s UC Berkeley. David Kernohan responds.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

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. Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40