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. So far, more than 9 million students have used OpenStax books, the nonprofit reports, calculating their cumulative savings to students at $800 million. 1 in the market.

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Industry OER Course Company 106

Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. Another: individual faculty are often caught between publishers (so far, everyone here hates sales reps) and their tenure/hiring/promotion/review companies (strong sense of long-serving profs as obstacles).

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. Another: individual faculty are often caught between publishers (so far, everyone here hates sales reps) and their tenure/hiring/promotion/review companies (strong sense of long-serving profs as obstacles).

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OER Elsevier Secondary Pearson 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 89

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

As a report in The New York Times noted, Amazon appeared to have opened the site without a system in place to review whether users were violating copyright when they uploaded materials—systems that are standard on other collections of user-generated content. The company ended up restoring the sharing feature at the end of the summer.

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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 131

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Open Education Resources (OER). E-learning has seen a broad positive shift in the last couple of years.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In 2014, the Gates Foundation awarded the company a $4.5 Flash will be sunsetted on Dec.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 101

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. Where to Find & Curate OER Resources ] Faculty can curate and assign pertinent OER and library content to students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. In addition to better collaboration and communication throughout the university, there are a number of edtech companies out there that synthesize the process for you. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. According to.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

A new report urges care when purchasing digital instructional materials, and notes that factors such as interoperability, accessibility, and device access should be considered during the process. The report also outlines next steps for strategic support of the transition: 1. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Instructional Materials Report OER Policies 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

In 2013, PC Magazine reported that people between the ages of 18 to 24 are 16 percent more likely than any other demographic to have a cracked screen. But companies might not be attuned enough to how the user experience shifts from one device to another. A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 89

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Some of our clients now report being approached with acquisition opportunities weekly. With voice and video monitoring devices becoming ubiquitous in American homes, technology companies will take increasing steps to collaborate with institutions to adapt voice assistants and develop new devices for active learning classrooms.

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OER Knewton Kaplan Company 97

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.) Wondering about Apple?

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 112

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Technology companies—in all industries—make users anxious when they describe their work with the vagueness of a magician. Rather than answering the question, lazy entrepreneurs too frequently offer vacuous references to companies like Amazon and Netflix. (In fact, Quartz suggests that education services are the. Source: Quartz.

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Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 94

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it. The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn more about gaming while at ISTE—and beyond: Book a meeting at ISTE 2018 to learn about Classcraft’s Engagement Management System for schools and districts, and the Quests Marketplace featuring partners like Google Education, Discovery Educator Network, Newsela, LRNG, Breakout EDU and OER Commons. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 130

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades. And for just as long, I’ve believed that there are useful lessons for us to learn on this topic from open source software – OER’s far more popular and influential sibling. What does “bug” mean in the context of OER?

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OER Analysis Software Outcomes 147

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

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

But let it be reported that without a sales tax the hospital facilities of Massachusetts will deteriorate and cause a barely perceptible increase in preventable deaths—not many will drop a tear or reach for their checkbooks. Edtech companies are primarily focused on what we might call “statistical students.”

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Technology Education EdTech OER 72

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 Okay, okay.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

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

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. Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” ” Spoiler alert: Latinos.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

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

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Ralyea knows well the challenge of haphazard coordination, having lived it in South Carolina, where he had to work with a standards-based report card. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Join the Community.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype? Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Companies are investing in immersive technologies. Library Technology Reports , 54 (6). Library Technology Reports (vol. Coming in the next post: OER, OA and openness. The first of my shares was on AR/VR/MR with a sprinkling of AI. And, what’s in it for us?

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

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 204

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 116

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

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