Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Publicly-traded companies like Wiley generally share the price of their acquisitions, unless the financial impact is considered immaterial to the buyer’s bottom line. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. 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. colleges use at least one.

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Industry OER Course Company 101

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants.

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 114

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Intellus Learning , an educational platform as a service company, have partnered to provide academic libraries with a content curation, assignment, recommendation and analytics tool.

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OER Libraries Learning Company 40

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 125

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. There is clearly a disconnect here.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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OER Company Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 28, 2018

Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library since scaled to more than 20 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students. It’s difficult to find an OER initiative that doesn’t make use of their materials.

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OER Adaptive Learning Outcomes Libraries 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5 The platform also offers a library of supplemental resources from third-party providers. A license to Open Up Resources’ curriculum on Kiddom will range from $10 to $50 per student, depending on the district size, implementation needs, and other support services that the company provides.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 79

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. Soundtrap offers 20 Best of #ISTE19 podcasts.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Ideally professors need a way to synch attendance with an automatic mobile alert for students and have the option to quickly choose retention strategies differentiated for each learner’s specific on-campus needs (ex: a list of today’s available tutoring sessions, or upcoming MLA Citation workshops at the library).

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 87

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Michelson Runway , a San Francisco-based accelerator, announced the handful of companies that will be in its inaugural cohort. Around 200 companies applied for the five spots in the 2016 cohort. Michelson Runway has invested a total of $225,000 in the companies, with each receiving a minimum of $25,000 and some getting more.

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OER Company Outcomes Adaptive Learning 60

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

School administrators learned about the site, to be called Amazon Inspire, during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, held here. This piece we have committed to making absolutely free forever.

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OER Resources Education Edmodo 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week’s filing was made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, and it says that in the short run, allowing the marriage of the companies would create a duopoly in the textbook market, with the new combined publisher rivaled in size only by Pearson.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 94

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

The Daring Librarian

MARCH 19, 2020

Here's a kind of mirrored post that I put out on my Daring School Library blog for my kids, parents, and community. Since our schools closed down last Friday companies have been very generous and forthcoming to provide FREE resources for our quarantined or grounded kiddos. We've also shared our resources posted online. Keep reading!

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eBook OER Libraries Resources 46

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Companies are investing in immersive technologies. enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), Things to consider: provide a safe environment for your “play area” in the library.

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The company’s founder, Brian Jacobs, said in an interview that his organization has been fielding requests from potential pre-college clients and is likely to begin moving into that market “within the next year or two.” He mentioned Lumen Learning and OER Commons as just two examples. ” See also: Open Ed.

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Education OER Company Libraries 40

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. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” million total.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

In the absence of answers to this question, it is too easy for teachers and administrators to become unwitting brand ambassadors for companies seeking to integrate their products into the classroom, regardless of impact on student learning and success. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The report notes that navigating the procurement process is cited as one of the primary challenges for states and districts, and one that proves even more challenging to the companies that want to sell digital instructional materials to them. To that end, we have created an OER library of reviewed materials to help support districts.

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Instructional Materials Report OER Policies 40

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? A lot of media, telecom, eCommerce, software companies use this model, where customers pay for the service or product for a specific time period. a semester.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

Allowing cable operators and phone companies to act as gatekeepers means that all the things that we rely on pluralism or competition to promote, are endangered. I wanted to ask you about OERs. In terms of open access [journals] like [Public Library of Science]… they're leading edge. Why do you think that is?

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Education Exercises OER Meeting 63

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. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

[link] March 16th, 3:00 - 6:00pm US Eastern: Library 2.016: Privacy in the Digital Age The Learning Revolution and School of Information at San José State University are excited to announce the first of three Library 2.016 mini-conferences: "Privacy in the Digital Age." We're still taking session submissions!

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Chromebook Blendspace Libraries Conference 28

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

Contracts with publishing companies ensure equal availability and pricing for Idaho’s large population of rural schools. Students can now have an entire library in their backpack, and this changes the dynamic for schools and students. They have a continuous review and evaluation of curricular materials on a six-year rotation schedule.

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Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). CK-12 is at the forefront of OER by doing adaptive and personalized learning. Our model was to be more than an OER aggregator,” Khosla says. “We

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OER EdTech Exercises Resources 200

eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2020

Here is a closer look at Follett’s company-wide eLearning resources that are being made available at libraries, schools and universities in communities across North America affected by the COVID-19 virus: Follett School Solutions (PreK-12). Free access to OER courseware. Follett Higher Education Group (FHEG). Baker & Taylor.

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eBook OER Libraries Learning 83

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). Markson, Cengage’s strategy officer, argued that the company is “extremely committed” to driving down costs for students.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 110

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Consider the following fictitious scenario: A pharmaceutical company is developing a drug to cure a rare form cancer. The company takes the drug to market as a pill to be taken once daily for six months, with a six-month supply costing $100,000. 35% of the 1700 purchasers – 595 people – beat their cancer.

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OER Company Libraries Report 60

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Under LeBlanc’s leadership, in 2012 SNHU was the only academic institution on Fast Company’’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies list. You get into things like bundling, you think about OER and alternatives to expensive content. . The university is one of 40. It’s going to be great, actually.

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Competency Based Learning OER Assessment Company 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Marshall Exploring Gender Neutral/Inclusive Bathrooms in Libraries: A Global Perspective - Raymond Pun, Kenya Flash Flipped Learning in L2: How to Encourage Cross-Cultural Critical Thinking to Teach Global Problem-Solving Skills - Birgit A. Mary Ann Kahl Educational Diplomacy with High School Students - David Angwenyi, Ph.D,

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