Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. They indicate the richness of today’s unfolding LMS discussion, and help illuminate where things might be headed.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

” The overwhelming majority of “open textbooks” used in US higher education today are delivered to students via learning management systems (LMSs) like Blackboard, Canvas, and Desire2Learn. Specifically, it is critically important that the answer to these questions be “no.”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

OER Possibilities. The first lesson plans were displayed to students on the blackboard as students practiced on the individual slates… possibly the first 1 to 1 environment. This capability provides teachers the ability to use a multitude of OER (Open Education Resources) and web applications that are bountiful on the internet.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Although they aren’t in the classroom together, the students stay connected on their project leveraging tools like G Suite for Education or Blackboard Collaborate.

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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. faculty are completely unaware of OER.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

However, most people remain unaware of OER. MOOCs can be deployed if used creatively, based on emerging pedagogical practices from online learning, and if the technology works (cites a Blackboard problem). Bonk mentioned some early wiki work ( Wikibooks ) where noncredentialed users were prevalent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Recordings : all conference sessions are recorded and are available almost immediately after being given. Be sure to come sign up on the conference website to be notified of recording availability.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 12:00 pm (PDT): Opening Keynote Panel: Defining the Library as Classroom Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Brian Kenney, Joyce Valenza, and Jessamyn West.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Dr. Bryant is an active member of Educause, and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC); she also served as an Exemplary Course Program reviewer for Blackboard, Inc. She has a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from Georgia State University, and earned an M.S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well. Uploading a syllabus PDF into Blackboard is not instructional design. Current funding for the creation of OER (when it’s available at all) typically focuses on the courses enrolling the largest number of students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

It''s an online global event highlighting “wow” moments in teaching and learning , and the entire conference will be held online using the Blackboard Collaborate webinar platform, running out of my FutureofEducation.com community.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education) and David Wiley (the. Is it, perhaps, the state’s lower alcohol limit for beers?).

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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. . “ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. But Do Schools Need – or Want – Them? ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.” Via Common Dreams : “Downplaying Deportations: How Textbooks Hide the Mass Expulsion of Mexican Americans During the Great Depression.”

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example. .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

“ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. Edsurge celebrates by reprinting Blackboard founder Matthew Pittinsky’s blog post “4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed.” .” ( No disclosure about shared investors.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. The company IPO’d in 2015 and finally surpassed Blackboard’s US market share in 2018.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. “ Blackboard ’s Debt Grows While Canvas Gains Contracts,” says ELearning Inside News. Via the CBC : “ Sesame Street to enter U.S. ” More via the AP.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” ” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.).

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” That is, the latest from Blackboard announcing a string of changes to executive roles. “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. . “ Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog. Labor and Management.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” “ Blackboard ’s Online Learning Trend Report ” by Blackboard. See also: Peter Thiel versus the First Amendment in the “courts” section above. OpenStax has been striking a lot of vendor deals recently, no?

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Edsurge on the business of OER. A teacher in front of a blackboard. Edsurge on " reality-based education.“ “ Edsurge on the ethics of ed-tech companies paying teachers. Edsurge on ”Words to Never Use If You Want to Build a Diverse Edtech Company." Students lined up in rows.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. “As a result of this program,” Lumen Learning’s David Wiley wrote , “by fall of 2017 somewhere between 3% and 4% of all community colleges in the US will have at least one all-OER degree program.” of courses use OER.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). It’s 2017, and ed-tech is so “disruptive” that we’re still debating the LMS , a technology that is at least 30 years old (and that’s just if you date it to the founding of Blackboard. Sounds Familiar.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Blackboard cofounder Michael Chasen takes CEO reins at PrecisionHawk.” ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” From the HR Department. Teresa Sullivan will step down as president of UVA next year. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Blackboard Study on How Instructors Use the LMS.” IBM partners with Pearson.

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