Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 19, 2018

I’ve read some really interesting books this year. The books that are affecting me the most professionally are those that are giving me language and frameworks for making progress on ideas that have been stagnating in the back of my mind for a while. What would “do more” mean in the context of learning materials?

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

While schools have traditionally used printed textbooks, choosing digital textbooks impacts learning in positive ways. By adopting e-books in your school or district, you can expand learning opportunities. They help your students thrive in school because they get to learn the way they want to learn.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. I caught up with this week and asked him to share insight into the process of students creating digital textbooks.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. High Hope #4: Cleanly Curated Open Education Resources In order for high quality OERs to be combined with high quality instructional design, teachers need tools that allow them to curate the resources.

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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. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. underwhelming.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 92

eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2015

But the book has petrified into rock, a veritable crystallized fossil, something long out of use and valuable only to future archaeologists studying early, primitive 21st-century homo sapien reading implements. Not a book, as in the actual physical object, to be found among the studying horde.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital. For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. By and large, it’s working. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. million last year from the U.S.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

Learn more here about their Marriott Lightning Sessions and raffle and follow @commonsenseedu & @graphite on Twitter. Visit CDW*G at Booth #2200 to explore solutions to better prepare for digital learning. dreambox learning. Readiness for Personalized, Digital Learning with Metiri Group.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Scaling Digital Learning with the CWiC Framework : Advocates of digital learning tout its potential to impact student success—but much of that depends on how institutions implement, choose and incorporate digital products with students and faculty. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

The seller: Book Dog Books. “ 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. ” The student in question: Tyrone Hankerson Jr, of meme fame.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

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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. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. They haven’t.).

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Among the things to be digitized, learning materials have emerged as the top consideration and the education sector is now discovering the best way to go about. The simplest form of digital learning material is eBooks or content published in ePub formats. Related Read: Top 10 Advantages of eBooks over Printed Books.

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