Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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OER Resources How To Education 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Free Isn’t Free For students, OER texts are typically free, or nearly free.

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OER Resources Course Education 148

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It It is moving up the adoption ladder,” says Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause, of OER. “It In the U.S.,

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OER Resources Education Report 178

eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Only one-third of school districts said they are aware of both the term “open educational resources” (OER) and its licensing, according to a report from the Babson Survey Research Group. Open licensed full-course curricula materials have been adopted by 16 percent of all districts.

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OER Report Survey Course 51

techlearning

AUGUST 8, 2018

Guest post by Steve Baule, Educational Leadership Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Superior: As the school year begins, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of Open Education Resources (OER). The OER Commons is a core site with resources from pre-school through adult education.

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OER Resources Handbook Course 40

EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment.

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

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. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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Industry OER Course Company 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The universities in Georgia have seen improved grades since the widespread adoption of open education resources, while Wake Technical saw better online course completion rates among minority students whose instructors communicated with them via text message and virtual meetings software.

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Report EdTech Tools OER 139

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 96

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight.

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Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

On Tuesday, June 12 the #DLNchat community got together to dive into how improving digital learning could help institutions pass along savings to students, and how technology might also help reduce indirect costs for college attendance. One of the larger questions during the chat was about scaling for cost efficiency.

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OER Tools MOOC Course 67

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 19, 2018

Isn’t there a better metaphor for the work we’re doing in OER than “the commons”? Isn’t there a better way to think about OER than as static content like a PDF? I also found it to be a compelling argument that we consider the coral reef as a new metaphor for our work with OER. Getting to causation.

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OER Software Digital Learning Course 60

Fractus Learning

MAY 24, 2016

To do this, Lilly turned to the CK-12 Foundation to help develop a suite of Open Educational Resources (OER) that would help them meet the school’s budgetary and educational needs. The first integrated mathematics text was such a success that the team is now in the process of creating the second and third integrated math courses.

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Digital Learning OER Laptops Learning 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. underwhelming.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 87

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials. Top Hat has been steadily expanding its suite of tools ever since the company was founded in 2009, and in recent years has charted a course to “create the next generation of interactive courseware,” says Silagadze in an interview.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 123

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

She thinks that the disconnect exists because in the past, there were ways to “slowly move an institution forward, or a curriculum, a program, a course.” Now, she says, the use of technology in learning has created more of a need to put money behind innovation.

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Report Competency Based Learning OER Survey 79

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The two dominating factors that drive faculty course material decisions are quality and cost. Whether or not materials exist in digital form isn’t an issue for a clear majority of instructors. There is a bedrock layer of faculty with strong resistance to digital materials. Let’s break down some details.

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OER Study Survey Education 40

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

House Bill 1915, which would establish a clearinghouse of federally approved online courses for students in grades 6 to 12, garnered unanimous support in the House Education Committee on Monday. The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year. image via AP ].

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As Troy Markowitz suggested, “Institutions need to better connect the skills attained derived from course curriculum/programs. Institutions need to focus on this and not just on measuring” student learning outcomes. At our next #DLNchat , we’ll discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Ed.

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OER Outcomes Digital Learning Online Learning 65

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A new report from Babson, Pearson, the Online Learning Consortium et al, Grade Level ( pdf ), offers some intriguing observations about campus strategy and leadership. One is that a huge gap yawns open between chief academic officers (academic deans, provosts, vice presidents) and their faculty on digital learning.

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Online Learning Report OER Pearson 40

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Backed by a 1 Mbps per student Internet connection, the school leader decided it was time to try using open educational resources (OER), a set of free materials that could be curated just to meet his students’ needs. The decision to be an early adopter of OER put the one-school district on the map, earning a visit in 2015 from then-U.S.

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OER Laptops STEM Meeting 53

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER. .” making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER.

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAwards) from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) last November. The awards recognize educators’ and institutions’ innovative use of digital courseware to improve outcomes for students, especially underrepresented ones. The result?

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 83

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Learning.com ‘s Curriculum Foundry, a solution for seamlessly accessing, organizing and sharing digital content, is now fully integrated with Google Drive and Google Apps for Education. Using Curriculum Foundry’s comprehensive set of tools, educators can build learning objects, lessons, units and even entire courses.

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Google OER Chromebook Education 40

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. And what kind of impact data should they be tracking over the course of a season? Tagged on: August 12, 2017.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

“These innovations have allowed us to in-source our adaptive learning capability, and thus we are phasing out our agreement with Knewton for select areas of our global product portfolio.” Pearson has already courted another company to enhance its higher-ed digital learning products: IBM. content providers.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 77

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

LMS provider itslearning and Gooru , a nonprofit organization which provides a free online learning navigator for educators of the same name, announced a strategic partnership to enhance itslearning’s platform with open educator-curated content and successful practices for personalized learning.

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LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 51

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Integrated Planning & Advising for Student Success : As technology steps in to automate traditional academic advising duties like helping students register for courses, a new approach to student success and planning has stepped in: iPASS (Integrated Planning & Advising for Student Success). Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

There’s also Pluralsight, a provider of tech-training courses that analysts bet will hit the public market soon. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. Department of Education) and David Wiley (the. Savoy Room).

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 70

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

“The national perspective that the Learning Counsel provides regarding digital transformation has proven invaluable as we have embarked on this journey,” said Janell McClure, the director of digital and multimedia learning at Cobb County Schools (GA). “By The impact of digital curriculum use. • Curriculum coverage.

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? “ Do Online Courses Really Save Money? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. But Do Schools Need – or Want – Them? ” asks Edsurge.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation? - Karla Pobke Coordinator Personalised Learning Born Accessible STEM: Making Sure Accessibility is Not Just an Afterthought - Anh Bui Director of Product Strategy for Global Literacy Project-Based Learning: You''re almost doing it already!

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

She was previously an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, and has taught courses for San José State University and the University of Washington. He holds an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Of course, for this to apply to Pearson, it would have to turn out high quality content. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We currently have 10 keynotes and 130 regular sessions scheduled over the course of three days. Associate Professor, Millersville University Dr. Ann Gaudino is as an Associate Professor at Millersville University, Pennsylvania where she teaches graduate and doctoral courses in education and education leadership. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Of course none of this – not Africa is a Country’s excellent reporting nor Peg Tyre’s recent story in the NYT – stops Nicholas Kristof from touting Bridge as a “solution.” His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). for-profits?” Sounds Familiar.”

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46