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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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How do we talk about “open” in the context of courseware?

Iterating Toward Openness

I will exclude design, the third component of Michael’s definition, from the discussion that follows and explain why at the end.*. When we ask whether or not content is open, we mean is it openly licensed (is it OER)? Moodle) does not convert it to OER – the content continues to be All Rights Reserved.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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For top students, taking an online course didn’t definitively have a negative effect on a student’s grade point average. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. .” ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students.