Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. With so many used books in circulation, it becomes difficult for publishers to sell new textbooks.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

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. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 96

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means. The amount of free information online dwarfs the amount of information available as OER. OER are not a threat to publishers simply because they’re free.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. To be sure, there are gold nugget lessons within the vast OER and marketplace libraries, but finding them is difficult and time-consuming. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 95

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

You may gasp, but gaming is a multi-billion-dollar industry for a reason. The book “ Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ” discusses how entering “flow” states makes us more productive. Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 121

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

The second obstacle standing in the way of the broad adoption of free software was the word “free” Many free software advocates understood that without adoption and use by business and industry, free software would never live up to its transformative potential. This received much more adoption than the original license.

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

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. Today, this is the new normal – open sharing and collaboration within what is otherwise an absolutely cutthroat industry. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. However, OER are not CPRs. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways. Ostrom’s 8.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Industry data show that there has been a significant decline in student spending on course materials over the last decade,” said a spokesperson for Cengage and McGraw-Hill, in a statement Wednesday.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 91

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. However, apart from making content available online, it is also necessary to make it affordable. a semester.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

and BS in Industrial Engineering/Human Computer Interaction from University of Alabama and North Carolina A+T State University, respectively. He is co-author of the book “Academic Librarianship by Design” and editor of the book “Crucible Moments: Inspiring Library Leadership.” She has a Ph.D.

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Libraries Conference Online Learning OER 28

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

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). Subscribe to their blog.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign. But department leaders are encouraging professors to take a close look at the Cengage books to get the deal. How do you do Cengage Unlimited unless your entire campus goes to Cengage? It was a horrible experience.”

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 106

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Rather than a single book or set of books, most basal programs now include a number of materials to facilitate learning. In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise. Simba Information is widely recognized as the leading authority for market intelligence in the media and publishing industry.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

Following your heartbreak is the single most effective way to help individual and organizations to discover their purpose and find an innovative way to act on it,” says Angela Maiers, author of the best-selling book The Passion Driven Classroom and founder of the Choose2Matter movement.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Tentative interest in where the porn industry is going. Meanwhile, on Twitter Steve Covello shared this resource : Here is my OER chapter on AR/VR/MR for my class: [link] Includes supp. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link]. Questions of accessibility. Exc historical bkgrd.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Tentative interest in where the porn industry is going. Meanwhile, on Twitter Steve Covello shared this resource : Here is my OER chapter on AR/VR/MR for my class: [link] Includes supp. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link]. Questions of accessibility. Exc historical bkgrd.

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OER Analysis Education Data 40

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

In an interview with EdSurge at the conference, General Assembly CEO Jake Schwartz said he was excited to continue to lead the operation, which will retain the brand and operate as a division of Adecco, and gain better connection to industry partners through the new parent company. But its education officials are looking for outside help.

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 96

Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” She was, apparently, at Koch Industries. Edsurge covers OpenEd : “Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? Related: this review of Robert Plomin’s new book, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are , in The Guardian.

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Education MOOC Company OER 55

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Via The LA Times : “ L.A. More LAUSD news in the legal section below.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Monica Crowley , Trump’s pick for director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, has decided to not take a position with the new administration following revelations about her plagiarizing her dissertation and her 2012 book. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” “A bold move,” says Inside Higher Ed.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” It’s boom times for the “regret industry.”

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” ” ’Tis the season for publishing books on “ grit.” Good grief.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. What’s next?” ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Highly recommended: Temple University’s Sara Goldrick Rab’s 2016 book Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Bretrayal of the American Dream.). Read her new book.) There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. To blame for the soaring cost of college?

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” asks Ron Srigley in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Edsurge on the business of OER. Everything about our lives has moved beyond the industrial era. ” Via Laughing Squid : “ Text-to-Teach Children’s Book Responds With Demonic Screeching When Battery Is Low.” Students lined up in rows.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47