Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION.

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

On April 14th Cable Green, many participants, and I explored this question on the 11th Future Trends Forum. He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. TRENDS IN OPEN EDUCATION.

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. In fact, I think some of the biggest edtech trends have been rather. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. underwhelming.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The most recent data NACS has on the latter behavior is from the fall of 2017, when 4 percent of respondents reported obtaining materials through illegal downloads.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The tool not only helps emerging readers build confidence, independence and fluency, it offers teachers powerful formative assessment data and tools to analyze student progress without compromising valuable instructional time. A variety of optional fields provide more granular opportunities for examining data.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

“[One] tenth (11 percent) were using OER materials and 4 percent were currently using OER in their classes and also making their own course materials available as OER.” Casey Green will be my guest this week on our new Future Trends Forum. ” Think about that. Read the whole thing.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

least likely to be automated of 19 job sectors, based on data from the U.S. Black-box software, as OER pioneer and Lumen Learning’s Chief Academic Officer, David Wiley writes, “reduce all the richness and complexity of deciding what a learner should be doing to—sometimes literally— a ‘Next’ button.”. Source: Quartz. This is a mistake.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

The director of EDUCAUSE ELI describes six major trends (he calls them “trajectories”) for technology and education. Malcolm Brown begins with three major drivers: personalization, hybrid learning, and big data. It’s a very impressive article, packing a lot of insight into a short space. Read what follows carefully.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Sessions discussed them in terms of data analytics. Data analytics were all over the place. Casey Green takes a question, speaking of excellent data. This might complement, but is different from data analytics. Many quiet signs of OER. Not all the way, but watch this trend. Etextbooks were fairly present.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

"Cengage and McGraw-Hill’s proposed merger is a step toward forming a monopoly over higher education data." —The And it paints a picture of a future in which the publishing giant created by the merger controls an “enormous data empire” that would be extremely difficult for new entrants to compete against.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 95

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Essential Conditions: Support the essential conditions necessary for the successful acquisition and implementation of digital instructional materials for successful digital learning including Leadership, Equity of Access, Accessibility for All Students, Interoperability Considerations and Student Data & Privacy.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

“By sharing information, processes, and research that contribute to a successful transition, the Learning Counsel has helped education leaders chart a course that includes actionable data and current trends. OER versus paying for fully complete publisher products. . OER versus paying for fully complete publisher products.

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

GSE3x: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching. TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs. Go To Class | Next Session : 11th May, 2015. via CourseSites.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” It’s a cycle, Srnicek argues, that then encourages more usage, which in turn generates more data.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Doug Levin

MARCH 1, 2017

As compared to others, I am more likely to tag local/regional and state-specific news stories, in-depth policy analysis, open resources (OER, open source software tools, open data, open access, etc.), Today, I’m pleased to announce the return of the reading list feature to my site. Image credits.

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Trends EdTech OER Software 150

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The App Hub is dedicated to bringing transparency to developers’ data and accessibility policies, and to help decision-makers find information about apps to meet the unique learning goals and policies of their school districts.”. ASSISTments will give students and teachers actionable data and save valuable time. Khan Academy Kids.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

Engrade unifies the data, curriculum and tools that educators use every day to drive student achievement and inform district educational strategy. As a result, educators trust that the resources found in the Knovation Content Collection, including Open Educational Resources (OER), are ready to be incorporated into instruction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Open Source and OER ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic! Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ? Lifelong Learning ? Music Education

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. If I have a choice between three sections of a course, and one has OER and one has a $200 or $300 textbook, I want to know that because that’s a factor in my choice.” The university’s data supports that.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Cathy O’Neil’s criticism of data analytics’ misuse resonated with a large number of people. NGDLE may also do a better job of including social media within these systems, improving social functionality and integrating external services including publishers’ data analytics.

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Trends LMS Social Media Education 116

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This new approach is fueled by trends that have impacted academic publishing over the past decade, including: The Rental Market: Companies like Wiley report textbook rental as the major cause for their recent 27% revenue decline in their Q3 (compared to 2016).

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OER How To Industry Assessment 100

Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This is not just a technology experience, but the online collaboration and sharing among the many educators using creating these immersive learning games qualifies this item for a 2016 edtech trend in the classroom. However, these trends are not thought about in a vacuum. Which trends and technologies will drive educational change?

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

As the market consolidates, “you will see single platforms that can own and manage all the data relevant to teachers and students. you will see single platforms that can own and manage all the data relevant to teachers and students. But there’s an equally troubling and less circulated trend: underemployment.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

And That Has Given It Some Eye-opening Data.” ” (“Reinventing the transcript” seems to be one of the things folks are hoping to make “ trend ” this year.). ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.”

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The business of OER. This week’s Uber news, via Bloomberg : “ Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People.” ” More via The NYT : “Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data.” TBH, I still can’t remember what Unizin actually is.

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

.” (Yes, I’m tracking on this sort of thing as part of my 2017 “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Congrats to the education company Road Scholar for appearing in this Gizmodo story about how companies surreptitiously collect your data. Carson-Dellosa has acquired Rourke Educational Media.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Via Bill Fitzgerald : “Protecting Ourselves From the Equifax Data Breach, and Data Brokers in General.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Bucking a Boastful Trend, Stanford Will No Longer Brag About Its Application Numbers.” Thank you, big data, for giving people this insight. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” Rebrand.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. So many lessons here about controlling your own data and not relying on free ed-tech products. 3D Printing.

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