Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. Edward Watson.

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OER Company Adaptive Learning Resources 65

Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

I said my piece in the updated article that spurred my original comment (including that the service the company in question provides looks “interesting and valuable,” especially in the context of the K-12 assessment market). The Pro-OER Elephant Test. Open is the New Green.

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OER Software Company Twitter 170

Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

YouTube algorithms: How to avoid the rabbit hole Explore how to use SEL to benefit learners and retain your teachers Check out our SEL strategies that can help you create a more positive and equitable school and district culture. You’ll find learning goals, resources, formative assessments and extended learning opportunities.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It is the newest addition to SETDA’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Collection , available for access in their OER Commons site. “As In collaboration with Microsoft and the K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX), this initiative underscores SETDA’s commitment to providing essential tools and guidance to support state educational agencies.

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Resources Microsoft Advocacy OER 86

Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide. From equity, to cost, to teacher empowerment, many benefits of open resources exist.

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OER Future Ready Edmodo Education 100

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. This confidence information is aggregated and provided to the learner as an explicit, externalized view of their own model of their learning.

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OER Assessment System Google 60

Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Assessment 283

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. As Freddy is wont to say, “No one gets good at anything without practicing the skill or strategy.” Working across so many disparate texts, it would be nearly impossible for a teacher to create anything like this when using OER.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 110

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees. It saves time and effort, while also providing a better learning experience for users.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

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.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 86

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The Cohort topics include Competency-based Professional Learning, Data Interoperability, Engaged Learning, Innovative Assessment, Learner Variability, and Rural Education. Assessment Data Interoperability: Integrating assessment data to support teacher instruction and student learning.

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Data Conference Assessment OER 167

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. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2016

Annual survey reveals more and more districts are turning to OER and other digital learning resources. Sixty-two percent of districts in a recent survey have a digital content and curriculum strategy, and more than half of those strategies (38 percent) include using Open Educational Resources (OER).

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Survey OER Digital Learning Strategy 40

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

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 27, 2016

For years open advocates have touted “day one access” as one of the primary benefits of choosing OER instead of traditional materials. For faculty who adopted OER primarily because they provided day one access for students, OER are now indifferentiable from publisher materials. 2) It leverages the “wow!”

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OER Accessibility Assessment Strategy 60

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might now discover with their intuitive strategies. In school libraries, digital curation represents a workflow strategy for student inquiry. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

G is for Grounded in Assessment: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning by Michael Gorman at [link]. The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stake holders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment.

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Strategy consultant. It includes assessment to inform personalization of instruction and is equipped for adoption across a range of institutional types and learning environments.”. The most structured option is offered directly from a vendor platform; it includes all course content and assessments.

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OER Assessment LMS Analysis 65

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. The survey tool was created to assist executives and curriculum and technology directors in assessing their readiness for a greater transition to digital curriculum and content. Transition barriers.

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The differences in rules between the many kinds of football have naturally led to the evolution of very different strategies for winning the different versions of the game. Can you imagine the result of applying strategies that have proven successful in American football to the game as it is played in Brazil? However, OER are not CPRs.

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OER Resources Groups Accessibility 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). Michelson Runway hired Designs for Learning , a learning assessment consultancy, to design studies to evaluate student outcomes for each of the companies. We’re learning alongside these institutions.”

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OER Company Outcomes Adaptive Learning 60

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. Freeriders!

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There is a collection of wonderful lesson plans, teaching tips, and pedagogical strategies You can also visit a Teacher’s Lounge or explore the all-level resources. Continue to explore all of the simulations, formative assessments, and lessons. It is fun to discover how science really works. Check out all the science areas.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 12, 2020

The interim CEO of the ACT talks about the company's recent acquisitions and what's ahead for the major provider of assessment and other services. The post ACT Takes Stock Under Direction of New CEO Janet Godwin appeared first on Market Brief.

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Assessment Company Adaptive Learning OER 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

Fortunately, there is an effective strategy for personalization as well as an effective delivery system: technology. We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. Technology changes what is possible.

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OER Outcomes Report Technology 71

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs. SALTO-Youth via Canvas.net.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson. We hoped this tool would help us meet one of our learning goals to enhance the learning environment by increased use of innovative teaching techniques, interactive technologies, and assessment data.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Tagged on: August 15, 2017 College Board Partners with AIR Assessment to Expand Digital SAT Testing | The College Board → Ultimately, the College Board will offer a digital SAT option during the school day to all interested states, districts, and schools. state-level policies relating to open education. Tagged on: August 12, 2017.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

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

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

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 47

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

Desired outcome (explore, apply, assess)? #2: They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. I see HyperDocs as an instructional strategy crying out for school librarian partnership, especially if you are working at a Google Classroom school.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

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. As it continues to shift, school librarians teach and model strategies for digital workflow.

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Libraries OER Wiki BYOD 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

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

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We will explore strategies, digital tools, professional learning, and much more! (10 Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Learn practice strategies, organization techniques, and a whole list of tools to make teaching this year EASIER!

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Google eBook Assessment OER 95

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.

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OER LMS Resources Course 192