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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

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Writing assignments, for example, do not exist to keep all the fun out of kids’ lives; they are designed to teach efficiently. If you assign a paper on the features of a novel as a genre, for example, name a specific novel you’d like them to analyze for those features.

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

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The five most popular LMSs (Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, D2L and Sakai), which account for more than 90 percent of the market share in higher education, are all designed based on a 10-year-old standard called the Learning Tools Interoperability (or LTI) standard.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. Say, as a purely hypothetical example, that a member of a faculty team accidentally included a copyrighted resource in a collection of OER. Or, if you prefer an example closer to home, Reclaim Hosting.

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