Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). There are also education textbooks that teachers can use to find strategies for instruction. TextBookGo.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

I said my piece in the updated article that spurred my original comment (including that the service the company in question provides looks “interesting and valuable,” especially in the context of the K-12 assessment market). The Pro-OER Elephant Test. Open is the New Green.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. So the discovery, vetting, and alignment costs inflicted upon the teachers and districts that would try to embrace free and OER content would remain high.

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OER EdTech Common Core Company 60

Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide. So, where should district leaders interested in open education begin?

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks. The average price for a Pearson digital textbook subscription for a semester is $40, according to the company. But the company is not cutting the cord with print. “We

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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

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. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 125

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. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees. E-learning has seen a broad positive shift in the last couple of years.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 18, 2017

Cengage recently announced a new offering called MindTap ACE that includes OER and is now available in pilot. The video clearly shows Cengage content listed for each topic, followed by some OER. MindTap ACE addresses this challenge by including OER alongside Cengage’s best-in-class content.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 30, 2017

In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” Before I begin though, just to be clear, allow me to reaffirm that OER are free, plain and simple, full stop, period. OER = free + permissions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Open-licensed learning materials have generally been slower to carve out a spot in the K-12 market they have in higher education, where companies like Lumen Learning have found target demographics. But the move to OER and digital curriculum hasn’t been completely smooth for everyone, Williams adds. Larry Singer.

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Resources OER Pearson Common Core 86

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 28, 2019

College learning materials publisher FlatWorld releases a customizable textbook; supplemental education company Infobase acquires Credo Reference; OER courseware provider Lumen raises funds. The post K-12 Dealmaking: HMH Acquires Waggle; National Geographic Launches Pathways; Instructure Gets New CEO appeared first on Market Brief.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. The first has to do with capacity.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

Confusion over the meaning of the word “free” (e.g., ‘if my company uses programs licensed as free software, does that mean I can’t charge customers?’) ’) was the original fear, uncertainty, and doubt that kept companies from engaging in this work. Companies are starting to ‘get it’!”

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

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 86

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Some wonder when it will be open to the wider education community (and what the company’s broader education strategy is). At the time, the company got a talking to from teachers in comments on its Facebook page for Amazon Education. In 2013 it bought a math instruction company called TenMarks, which was co-founded by Agarwal.

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Education OER Company Facebook 110

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

MARCH 25, 2016

The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

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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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 90

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. These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! It has always been the case that companies that play nicely with others win.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. The Learning Counsel’s 2015 Digital Curriculum Strategy School Assessment Tool & Survey proved to be a valuable tool in this process! OER versus paying for fully complete publisher products. .

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 12, 2020

The interim CEO of the ACT talks about the company's recent acquisitions and what's ahead for the major provider of assessment and other services. The post ACT Takes Stock Under Direction of New CEO Janet Godwin appeared first on Market Brief.

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Assessment Company Adaptive Learning OER 81

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.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

This includes legislation and regulations relating to open educational resources (OER), textbook costs, and digital course materials across all levels of education. state-level policies relating to open education. This repository contains the datasets we created through this process. Tagged on: August 12, 2017.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies. Openness then becomes mainstream, is adapted and adopted by the big companies. This is a crucial time for determining the future direction of open education.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

While states are mainly providing strategies and not funding, there is a growing movement to create innovative solutions like wi-fi on buses and community partnerships to provide wi-fi access at home. In 2018, ENA joined forces with a company who share ENA’s same vision and passion for delivering excellence—CatchOn.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. faculty are completely unaware of OER.

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OER Software Data Accessibility 60

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, and Knovation, an online resource curation tool, announced a collaboration to expand and simplify educators’ and students’ access to professionally-evaluated, standards-aligned digital content.

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Accessibility OER Company Adaptive Learning 40

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form. to apply things to the real world.

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Full details are here. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community.

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