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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

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Consider this sequence : 95% high school students cheat; then they go on to undergraduate education, where 68% cheat; then to graduate school, where 43% of them still cheat. This creates an unhealthy, competitive environment which actually promotes cheating by shifting the focus from education to grades.

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

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This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). As an example of what Matthew observes, here’s a snapshot from the CS 106B course at Stanford where professors use edtech tools extensively to enhance learning for more than 300 students.

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Longtime Higher Ed Leader (and Former U.S. Congressman) Argues For a ‘Networked College’

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It’s a key claim in his new book, “ Free-Range Learning in the Digital Age: The Emerging Revolution in College, Career, and Education ,” due out next month, and it’s one that might unsettle college administrators accustomed to directly overseeing more campus services in-house. Smith has a unique perspective on innovation in education.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. of all instructional staff in US higher education were part-time (adjuncts) and another 19.3%

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

A little background: the person asking me this is not affiliated with an educational institution at the moment, so they can’t relay on campus resources, nor use a.edu email address. Sakai – this academic LMS also appears in at least one group’s paid hosting options. — Hart Wilson (@riverside_hart) May 17, 2022.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. Say, as a purely hypothetical example, that a member of a faculty team accidentally included a copyrighted resource in a collection of OER. Or, if you prefer an example closer to home, Reclaim Hosting.

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