Remove Android Remove Books Remove MOOC Remove OER
article thumbnail

A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. YouTube gets little credit for this clean-up in my book, however, as it took journalists to uncover and talk about the problem. The business of OER. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will they make it happen?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. They haven’t.).

Pearson 145
article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case ” by James Grimmelmann. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. I’ve got Joshua Hunt’s new book The University of Nike sitting here on my desk. Indiana University has joined edX. Does Your College Offer a Concierge ?”