EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ).

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. Have you ever used the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage? I mean, this is Google ’s search algorithm we’re talking about, created by an army of PhDs.

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OER Assessment System Google 60

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Furthermore, universities and school are also inclined towards diversifying their facilities through online courses. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). However, some courses are chargeable. Personalized E-Learning Courses.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. You will, of course, have some very different needs or ideas and I know you will want to redecorate.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A Google Custom Search Engine could be the answer. A Google Custom search (or CSE) allows you to guide searchers to the sites you want them to search or sites they most need to search. teachers to the best resources across the multiple OER portals. wax museum researchers to solid sources of biography.

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Google OER Resources Course 66

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

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

A quick search via Google shows that Stephen Downes is mentioned over 500 times on the pages of Iterating Toward Openness. Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Are they denied access?

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OER LMS Assessment Course 60

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. 4c6x4p5qplh7 Google For Education Resources [link] Google Classroom - new resource for teachers to manage classes, assignments, student work, and to communicate with students. The process is so simple!

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Google Classroom. Google Classroom is the go-to resource for teachers looking to organize and streamline their workflows. Teachers accumulate a ton of materials over the course of a year. OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Teaching Tolerance.

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EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. These mobile messages keep students connected to course material and let students know we care about them, but the system is still too one-size-fits-all.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 86

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Teachers in each department have been developing their own custom Google-based websites over the span of a year with help from high school teacher John Hineman, who is overseeing the project. 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

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

One of these days, after I’ve retired, I’m going to write a radically restructured, OER-based freshman music theory course, based on research I did early in my career and what I’ve learned about good teaching since then. Something has always stuck out to me about the freshmen music theory course.

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Data Education OER MOOC 94

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

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

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Following on the heels of “ Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond ,” three more School of Open courses are now open for sign-up. These free courses are: 1. This course will equip Australian educators with the copyright knowledge to confidently use copyright material in the classroom. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS).

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Course OER Case Study Education 28

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 109

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model. And a switch to OER would help publishers solve both of them.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As Troy Markowitz suggested, “Institutions need to better connect the skills attained derived from course curriculum/programs. At our next #DLNchat , we’ll discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Ed. Add it your Google calendar for Tuesday, January 9 at 1pm PT/ 4pm PT. Students simply don't make the connection.

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OER Outcomes Digital Learning Online Learning 64

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

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

Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Visit [link] and you’ll see that these search services include Google and Flickr. Check out more exercises and courses like this at [link]. Used under a CC BY license.

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

The most open license, and the license generally recommended for open educational resources, or OER , is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Visit [link] and you’ll see that these search services include Google and Flickr. Check out more exercises and courses like this at [link]. Used under a CC BY license.

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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OER LMS Software Course 103

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” Even though it paints me in a fairly poor light, I recommend that you read it. ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.).

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OER Technology Exercises Online Learning 113

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. Real World Math – Welcome to a collection of free math activities for Google Earth designed for students and educators. Each is a complete project that you may wish to include.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

And what kind of impact data should they be tracking over the course of a season? Using half of the funds, the Texas Education Agency contracted with OpenStax, a nonprofit based at Rice University, to write textbooks for several popular high school STEM courses. state-level policies relating to open education. Powered by Pinboard.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

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! Here are our slides.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

According to the HyperDocs site , HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. What Google App can I use to package this lesson? And then, of course, you’ll want to Evaluate your HyperDoc.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Then, of course, what we understand is we have to give them more basic questions that they have a better chance on. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. And we’ll pull up Google; you know, anyone can help. What makes Expii unique?

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Classroom OER Software System 222

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Google Scholar : Known for its wide-ranging scholarly literature, Google Scholar covers articles, theses, books, and conference papers across multiple disciplines. Google Books : A comprehensive service from Google, this platform offers a wide range of books in digital format.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

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. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | The breach affects 1.3

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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. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150