Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

It’s a topic that I’ve been thinking about recently, particularly with yesterday’s revelation that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” “But wait!”,

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 18, 2021

I will provide a short explaination and some free resources examples! OER Commons – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. Our challenge is… how to break down the classroom walls even more with the technology we have today.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Example uses: a virtual fossil; an augmented bus stop redesign. Korkin turned to Microsoft Hololens, in part for its built-in gaze, voice, and gesture recognition, and partly because of the chance to get pre-commercial tech. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link]. Exc historical bkgrd.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 25, 2018

Example uses: a virtual fossil; an augmented bus stop redesign. Korkin turned to Microsoft Hololens, in part for its built-in gaze, voice, and gesture recognition, and partly because of the chance to get pre-commercial tech. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link]. Exc historical bkgrd.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 15, 2015

Audrey’s constant refrain that “no one seems to remember our history” was made for her again this week when McGraw-Hill and Microsoft announced a new project based around – I kid you not – learning objects. For example, take teaching materials about the Ruby programming language.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Microsoft 1) provided over 3 million students with free access to Office 365 in K-12 schools across the U.S., Take Adobe , for example. Over the past few years, the government has made several moves in other edtech spaces, mostly related to open educational resources (OERs) and evangelizing innovation from the top-down.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). Example Standards. Past Series Articles.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

When the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman toured the US recently, he hung out with Mark Zuckerberg , Jeff Bezos , and Sergey Brin , for example. Via Techcrunch : “ Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? Microsoft says it is open-sourcing its patent portfolio.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). AI extra: I couldn’t help spilling this trend over into artificial intelligence (AI) by sharing some of my favorite examples of useful applications: JSTOR Labs Text Analyzer Upload an article, your own paper, an illustration. Coming in the next post: OER, OA and openness.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources : Can free and open educational resources (OER) save students money without compromising their content or value? Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? EdSurge 4:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example. ” Rebrand. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” million total. million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” Microsoft has acquired Chalkup. million total. ” More from Edsurge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Here’s another example of the terrible potential (and the terribly obvious potential) of predictive analytics. ” Edsurge on a YouGov/Microsoft poll of parents: “Survey Says: Parents Think Tech Companies Should Help Build Kids’ Digital Skills.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

“In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

This is a good example of why we should be more critical when we hear about schools that boast everyone was admitted to college – at what cost? His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). Kahoot has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Creandum, Northzone, and Microsoft Ventures. Sounds Familiar.”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. An example might include the collaborative activity Chalk Talk. Keep in mind that these example below are here to give you some ideas to start with. 2017 Beyond SAMR.

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