Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Eventually, I came to the conclusion that every student should have an IEP—and that this could be possible with the support of technology like H?para. Meaningful data points In some schools, summative assessments make up the bulk of data collected about a student. We’ve seen how many of these technologies also serve mainstream users.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. There’s more bad OER out there than good; that’s a fact,” said Rebecca Kockler, assistant superintendent of academic instruction for the state of Louisiana, at the annual SXSWedu conference last week in Austin, Texas. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too. In addition to providing students with text and video content, courseware tools also have built-in nudges and assessments—sometimes personalized—that generate instant feedback about whether students are mastering the assigned material.

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Course OER Resources Education 184

edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. The post Navigating the Shift to OER appeared first on edWeb.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 12, 2015

He writes, “While to an OER advocate faculty are mere pawns to their agenda, to publishers, faculty are critical partners in academic success.” ” The overwhelming majority of OER advocates are faculty, and they have become OER advocates for two reasons.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Open Educational Resources (OER) have yet to cozy up with the more orthodox academics and pushy print publishers of the world. The most recent example occurred this week, when OER company Lumen Learning announced a partnership with one of the country’s largest textbook distributors, Follet Corporation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 91

Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Our students use technology for learning, connecting with friends and entertainment. Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology. Digital law : Teaching learners about legal issues concerning technology and how it applies to them.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

E-textbooks also often include digital assessments. Students can take these assessments along the way while they’re reading. Formative assessments in digital textbooks can also break up longer content to make it easier to grasp. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12.

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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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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 As technology continues to reshape education, ensuring the safety and security of students’ data and school networks has never been more crucial. For more information, please visit www.setda.org.

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Resources Microsoft Advocacy OER 101

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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this second post you will discover how careful examination of the nouns in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 29, 2016

In addition to appreciating the time savings, many faculty argue that participation in the peer assessment process can actually promote deeper student learning. This is absolutely true when faculty take the time necessary to design the peer assessment experience and supporting artifacts (like rubrics) well. They can’t.

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Assessment OER System Resources 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. They include; One-Half Day PBL Splash, Full Day PBL Starter; and a One-Half Day Technology Workshop dedicated to amplifying standards and process using Technology.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

After each lesson, students complete exit ticket assessments for subject mastery and social-emotional learning indicators. The startup’s origins trace back to Stanford University, where Yavne and Yael Haramaty, Tailor-ED's co-founder and chief technology officer, met as students in spring 2017.

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OER Exercises Analysis Groups 98

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Digitally Mature Leaders .

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

Which states and nations are willing to take this new technology head-on and which are going to be more cautious in their recommendations. Within the time frame of one full day of training, I can get teachers to think about assessing prompts over products. Which is a start to the shift that is needed.

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OER UDL Training Industry 67

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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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 18, 2016

Using resources that require a specific piece of technology or can only be used in one particular way only serves to stifle an educator's ability to innovate in their classroom. The US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology has placed heavy emphasis on the c reation and use of OER resources in the classroom.

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OER Resources Education Examples 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

How are technology decisions being made at our institutions? On the event’s second day, Lindsey Carfagna, a learning experience and assessment specialist at Thomas Edison State University, underlined that addressing institutionalized barriers to access and education is key to the open movement “growing up.”

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OER Conference Groups Outcomes 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology. The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 200

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

Learnosity , a provider of business-to-business SaaS education technology, and Learning.com , a provider of K-12 digital solutions, announce a new strategic partnership that will leverage Learnosity’s expertise to add robust assessment building functionality to Learning.com’s Curriculum Foundry digital curriculum management solution.

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Assessment Personalized Learning OER Learning 0

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. Office of Education Technology’s GoOpen Site. Understand State Open Work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. This led to a conversation about TextGenome and our work developing technology to improve reading comprehension with Drs. Yet, the goal across BHP’s activities and assessment is consistency. Finding time to do that work is even harder.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 117

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

If we truly want to improve student learning, we have to move beyond thinking about “OER adoptions” or “courseware implementations” or “course redesigns” and begin seeing our work as managing a complex human change process.

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Learning OER Exercises Student Engagement 146

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number three in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Part 3: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. OER Possibilities.

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Assessment Tools LMS OER 60

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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Libraries Digital Learning OER Learning 144

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 89

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. The technology is a driving force for the consultation industry wherein they specialize in training and staffing. E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A 2018 study conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) highlights schools in 9 states that have already started to implement interoperable systems with promising results. Reconfiguring networks to promote interoperability — seamless data sharing — seems to be the best fix for this issue. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Competency Based Learning OER Data Comparison 185

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

While opportunities to advance technology-enabled or -enhanced school reform and improvement efforts appear throughout ESSA (and are in no way precluded as a strategy anywhere in the bill), it is Title IV that presents the most direct opportunity for state leadership. These also speak to implicit expectations for technology availability.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 101

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 72

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @mjgormans ).

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