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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

Schools can use tools such as Learning Registry to collaborate on open educational resources (OERs), pulling content created by educators around the district, purchased, or taken from outside sources. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Pearson, Efficacy, Credibility, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

I’ve written about Pearson’s efficacy work in the past, and Ray Henderson’s twitter post this morning has prompted me to ponder and write a bit more. I believe we’re seeing this same effect across OER adoptions, and have labeled it the Remix Hypothesis. Efficacy and Comparisons.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. That was certainly the case in our experience.