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How do we talk about “open” in the context of courseware?

Iterating Toward Openness

In an article from a few years ago, Michael Feldstein describes courseware as the combination of (1) content, (2) platform, and (3) design (see the graphic at the bottom of the article.) ” is not a question we know how to answer today. We know how to talk about the component parts of courseware with regard to open.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Via Diggit Magazine : “The end of Academia.edu : how business takes over, again.” ” asks the Student Experience Manager of the Minerva Project in an article in Edsurge. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. So Why Not in College?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. ” Rebrand.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). The NAACP endorses OER. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. a month.). .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. And speaking of utterly uncritical reporting, here’s another story in The NYT that does very little to demonstrate the claims made in the headline: “How ‘ Makers ’ Make the Classroom More Inclusive.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. Edsurge on the business of OER. A teacher in front of a blackboard. National) Education Politics. Students lined up in rows.