EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device. E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course. Open Education Resources (OER). Learning Management System (LMS).

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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OER LMS Assessment Course 60

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

Our EROI journey began with a specialist in assessing ROI, Glimpse K12. With hundreds of software programs, OER resources, strategies, and programs permeating our curriculum, making sense of ‘what’s working for our students’ had blossomed into an administrative quandary. Taking control of the ‘why’.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 88

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Business and technology have become truly complementary: Forbes gives the example of engine manufacturers relying on software to push forward production. Robust and well designed infrastructure.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

In three years as an investor at Reach Capital, an edtech venture fund, I’ve watched public, private and philanthropic dollars pour into school operations, adaptive software, data analytics, teacher development, and teacher tools in worthy attempts to improve education. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 108

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Tyton Partners describes digital courseware as “instructional content that is scoped and sequenced to support delivery of an entire course through purpose-built software. It includes assessment to inform personalization of instruction and is equipped for adoption across a range of institutional types and learning environments.”.

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OER Assessment LMS Analysis 69

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 49

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

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. frequent formative assessment opportunities) can appear in educational resources with any copyright license.

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

COVID-19 accelerated the rollout of Mosaic by ACT, which is being billed by the company as a comprehensive, adaptive learning solution weaving together assessments, curriculum, and social-emotional learning. The post ACT Rolls Its Recent Acquisitions Into a New, Integrated Learning Platform appeared first on Market Brief.

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Adaptive Learning Learning Assessment Company 70

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more. They researched trophy designs, used software to create the trophies, and printed them on the 3D printer. She used the school’s design software and vinyl cutter to develop and print her stickers.

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Personalized Learning Learning OER Broadband 40

Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Broadband 387

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment. To add to the richness of the experience, BioDigital Human allows students to virtually conduct dissections and use the information to study and explore. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/biodigital-human/agoenciogemlojlhccbcpcfflicgnaak?hl=en

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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OER LMS Learning Sakai 60

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

With our classroom teacher partners, we build instruction; we build projects and assessments that focus on creativity and knowledge building using the information tools and strategies of our time. In the largest classrooms in our schools, we work with teachers to develop both traditional and emerging literacies.

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Libraries OER Wiki BYOD 40

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? A lot of media, telecom, eCommerce, software companies use this model, where customers pay for the service or product for a specific time period. a semester.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

An open implementation of RISE was recently published in the Journal of Open Source Software. T]he bigger concern with the way grades are addressed in the RISE framework is that they are plotting assessment scores instead of individual item scores. [T]he Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f

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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 93

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

In the following sections, I describe how the educational technology program will operate – including the roles for actors at the district, state, and federal levels – and my assessment of what the program says of the federal view of and role for technology in education. I may touch upon some or all of these in a future post.

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. Rather than roll out a broad campaign to promote OER on campus, the center is focused on working with individual faculty members who teach large enrollment courses, Watson says.

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OER Software Course Study 79

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

While most of the dialog around AI and education seems to be focused on assessment, I think the implications for instructional designers are critically important, too. And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well. And improvements will absolutely need to be made.

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OER LMS Resources Course 192

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. License Must Not Restrict Other Software.

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OER Software Data Accessibility 60

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. This is still a very real risk for OER. ” you might ask.

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OER Secondary Software Outcomes 96

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Open Source and OER ? Testing and Assessment ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic! Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In its simplest form, digital courseware refers to the curriculum delivered through customized software to facilitate teaching and learning. Textbook Bundles – Printed textbooks are converted to eBooks with supplemental materials and assessments, making the course complete. Converting textbooks to eBooks is a simple process.

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eBook Gamification Education OER 98

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. ” asks Edsurge.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS. Oakland Public Schools.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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 End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). billion by 2025.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Oh.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47