Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What’s more, the act of plagiarizing cheats students out of opportunities for authentic learning. Writing assignments, for example, do not exist to keep all the fun out of kids’ lives; they are designed to teach efficiently. Writing a good essay requires a great deal of analyzing and thinking outside the box. How do we prevent it?

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Social Media Sakai LMS Moodle 115

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

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. Not extravagance, but necessity.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. A few examples include: Automattic provides a broad range of for-fee, value-added services around the open source WordPress software, including WordPress.com (hosting), WordPress.com VIP (hosting), Akismet (anti-spam), Jetpack (security), and many others.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

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. You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ?

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Sakai MOOC Libraries LMS 76

Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

They want to create a learning experience to introduce people to a topic they’re passionate about. Canvas – a popular learning management system/virtual learning environment for institutions, there is also a Free-for-Teacher service which might do the trick. — Learning Technology (@learningtech) May 17, 2022.

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Moodle LMS Sakai VLE 116

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

Upon reflection several years ago, I came to see that despite all my efforts I was making the classic Field of Dreams mistake (“if we build it, they will come”) by assuming that “if OER exist in a faculty’s discipline and research shows them to be effective in supporting learning, faculty will adopt.”

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