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Why This Professor Believes OER Can Make STEM More Inclusive and Affordable

Edsurge

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. Visions of poorly edited texts that—when printed—turn into heaps of misformatted pages may cause professors (and students) to blurt out an immediate, “No thanks!” He and his students happily use open educational resources for textbooks.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Thirty percent of the company’s revenues come from assessments of one kind or another, which includes professional certification and apprenticeship programs, as well as summative exams. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Online Learning ? Open Source and OER ? Practical Student Tools (Email / Calendars / Organizers) ? Student 2.0 ? Student Entrepreneurship ? Teaching Online ? Testing and Assessment ? World Schooling See you “online!” Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ?

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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. But “precision education” does not simply rely on the assessment or behavioral data that feeds most learning software algorithms. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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