Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students. Most recent advances in student success and completion have been possible because data helped shine the light on where barriers exist for students.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 91

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 142

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book.

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OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 241

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board. Are students paying the price in terms of their data? According to a study by U.S. Public Interest Research Group, each new edition of a textbook cost 12 percent more than the previous one.

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 166

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The most recent data NACS has on the latter behavior is from the fall of 2017, when 4 percent of respondents reported obtaining materials through illegal downloads.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 147

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum. Quick Notes.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

I know, from the data we collected, that these interfaces were used, heavily used. website evolution. In fact, they were used even more heavily when we moved to a 1:1 climate. At this moment in time, having a rich virtual presence is no longer optional.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 99

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 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. CK12 – Starting with their amazing free digital books is really just a start. Nova Labs – Discover this site that provides real labs, real data, and you. My calendar is filling. You will feel the engagement.

STEM 162

STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

ProfHacker

APRIL 4, 2017

What I really like about this book is that it takes a really broad approach to open, including Open Pedagogy, Open Teaching, Open Access, and Open Data. There are chapters that argue for the quality of OER resources, for the utility of Open Pedagogy, and for the transformational potential of these approaches and resources.

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Accessibility Resources OER MOOC 76

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. WolframAlpha – This is an amazing search engine based on data and mathematics.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. The library holds about 124 million items, including 125,000 telephone books, she said. It has the largest collections of recorded sound and maps in the world.

Libraries 127

Libraries OER Case Study Robotics 127

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through January and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

See booking info and please contact me anytime at (mjgormans@gmail.com). West Virginia PBL Project Data Base – This is a wonderful site where teachers can search through the subjects of reading, language arts, math, science, social studies, dance, visual arts, theater, and music. Thanks so much. Michael Gorman ( 21centuryedtech ).

Resources 105

Resources OER Learning STEM 105

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Lessons can be personalized while collecting data for future instruction. OER Possibilities.

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Assessment Tools LMS OER 60

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.

Learning 60

Learning OER Software Course 60

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. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article.

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Also, remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Formative and Summative Assessment –Obtaining progress data is imperative and typical summative assessment can be employed.

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope you’re aware of and looking forward to her upcoming book on Teaching Machines.) Citations below are from this book. Goclenius thus tacitly acknowledges the messiness and incoherence of his own book, no doubt produced in haste from his teaching notes.

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OER System Exercises Course 93

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Cengage and McGraw-Hill’s proposed merger is a step toward forming a monopoly over higher education data." —The And it paints a picture of a future in which the publishing giant created by the merger controls an “enormous data empire” that would be extremely difficult for new entrants to compete against.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 92

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. Image credits.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Broadband 387

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. government’s data center, Dava.gov, is a goldmine of open student and school data. But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page . Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page .

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books.

Libraries 45

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

He manages a portfolio of grants focused on building equitable digital communities, including open educational resources (OER), digital inclusion, data privacy and security, open data, civic technology and e-books.

Libraries 50

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Sign Up Now.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60