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

Edsurge

Writing assignments, for example, do not exist to keep all the fun out of kids’ lives; they are designed to teach efficiently. Here are some techniques to help prevent plagiarism—and address it when it happens: LMS Compatability. What’s more, the act of plagiarizing cheats students out of opportunities for authentic learning.

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

Edsurge

This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). Almost every college uses an LMS for core tasks such as class announcements, file-sharing, assignments and grading. So, think of the LMS as an OS and these tools as the apps. You know what?

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

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. were graduate students.

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

Edsurge

You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? In your book you cite examples of people cobbling together an education from various sources, and there was a book several years ago by Anya Kamenetz called “ DIY U ” that argued that this will happen more often. And it just was a disaster.

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

Bryan Alexander

Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud. Sakai – this academic LMS also appears in at least one group’s paid hosting options. Miguel Guhlin describes these other options : WordPress with LMS Plugin of choice.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

Perhaps unsurprisingly, some our earliest and most painful experiences with supporting effective OER adoption involved the campus learning management system (LMS). From the very beginning, we have felt strongly that learners should work with OER directly inside their LMS. Everything is trapped inside the LMS.

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