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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

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Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” .” Upgrades and Downgrades. It’s not really an “exclusive” when you re-write a Google blog post , but oh well.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. The following year, Negroponte boasted that “within two weeks, [children] were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “ For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes.” Via The New York Times : “How Google Protected Andy Rubin , the ‘Father of Android ’ ” “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. What’s next?”