The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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Libraries Conference OER Online Learning 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Frontiers Science For Kid s – Not only are these articles for kids… they are written by kids. CK12 – Starting with their amazing free digital books is really just a start. My calendar is filling.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), Things to consider: provide a safe environment for your “play area” in the library. Radical change: Books for youth in a digital age.

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. There would be huge benefits to the OER ecosystem if we made similar arguments with commercial publishers, helping them understand why switching to an OER model would be good for their business.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

These specialized search platforms provide access to peer-reviewed articles, books, journals, and a plethora of other academic materials, essential for in-depth research and study across various disciplines. JSTOR : A digital library housing thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115

Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

and Mrs. Perkins, a fifth-grade teacher, browses the district’s library of content in H?para Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. Mrs. Perkins reviews the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack library of content that her district has curated.

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OER Chromebook Hapara Accessibility 235

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles. As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @mjgormans ). According to Dr. Ruben R.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” 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. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.)

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

.–and search tools–Google Books, Images, Scholar, etc. They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. They still have more they could explore, search, etc. through this database.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

hl=en Social Studies Google Maps - https://maps.google.com/ G o Social Studies Go - A Good Alternative to Social Studies Textbooks - Multimedia books about US History, World History and World Religions. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. A lot of companies offer content libraries with repositories of various subjects. a semester.

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OER MOOC Education Adaptive Learning 16

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. 70+ million users’ account details.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign. But department leaders are encouraging professors to take a close look at the Cengage books to get the deal. Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 124

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. The students at Algonquin Regional High School helped their local towns with tech support nights at local libraries. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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OER EdTech Learning iPad 60

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. For more information. But wait, there’s more!

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This isn’t a “meanwhile on campus story,” but I’m not sure where else to put articles about sexual harassment and sexual assault. 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. So it’ll go here.

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Monica Crowley , Trump’s pick for director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, has decided to not take a position with the new administration following revelations about her plagiarizing her dissertation and her 2012 book. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” “ Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case ” by James Grimmelmann. The School Library Journal reports that “ New York DOE Green Lights Amazon eBook Deal.”

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). The NAACP endorses OER. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.”

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. ” Via Venture Beat : “Xavier Niel explains 42 : the coding university without teachers, books, or tuition” (or students over age 30). weeks in 2015.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Because MOOCs have now largely pivoted to corporate training and because they continue to push for alternative credentialing (rather than simply for MOOCs for college credit ), I will – sadly – have to talk about MOOCs again in subsequent articles in this series. To blame for the soaring cost of college?

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So, no doubt, were several articles by and about Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein and his defense of Trump and DeVos. “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” Via Chalkbeat : “Skipping meals to afford books: College students’ financial woes go beyond tuition payments, survey shows.” ”). .”

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Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40