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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

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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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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” From the press release : “Treasury and Education Announce Progress Toward Multi-Year Income Certification System for Student Loan Borrowers in Income-Driven Repayment Plans.” Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.” ” More via Business Insider.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Republican lawmakers back bill that would substantially cut tuition and revenue , and seek more student diversity, at five system campuses, four of which are minority-serving institutions.” And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Oh and look at this: “Google Critic [Peter] Thiel Gave Money to Official Probing Search Giant,” Bloomberg reports. ” Via Poynter : “Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore?

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

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Google)’s biotech company, Calico. ” The system for funding American flagship public universities is “gradually breaking down,” Robert J. The New America think tank issued a plan in February to scrap the current financial aid system and re-start from scratch.

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