Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 1, 2021
It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. If you start with my github repo, you can build an LMS, a web site, an online teaching system, and even a camera ready textbook ready for printing using 100% free software. Really think about it.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 7, 2016
” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” ” And his partner Michael Feldstein : “ Student-Centered Educational Software.” Raise $146.1
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Hack Education
MAY 25, 2018
” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.” The discussion forum software maker has raised $2.4 What’s Going On?”
Doug Levin
MARCH 12, 2017
Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.
Hack Education
MAY 5, 2017
I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Elsewhere in algorithms… Via The New York Times : “Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms.”
Hack Education
JULY 1, 2016
The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand. .”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Or the company will have to start charging for the software. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). billion by 2025.
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