NeverEndingSearch
AUGUST 31, 2021
Microsoft Education’s new (and free) Reading Progress application promises to be a game changer and I would get ready to introduce it to your faculty early in the school year. Microsoft Education shares selected research suggesting connections between reading fluency and growth in reading comprehension. How does it work?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 2, 2016
For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 11, 2022
I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades. And for just as long, I’ve believed that there are useful lessons for us to learn on this topic from open source software – OER’s far more popular and influential sibling. What does “bug” mean in the context of OER?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. It’s now an LMS too.
Hack Education
MARCH 23, 2018
” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Government Will Travel to Latin America.” million total.
Bryan Alexander
APRIL 25, 2018
Also on campus: sports analysis and training; campus tours. He described the challenges of integrating structural bioinformatics, network biology, and next generation sequencing analysis. Worse, any visualization needed to scale up to thousands or millions of nodes and edges, while being receptive to search and analysis.
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