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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. If you assign a paper on the features of a novel as a genre, for example, name a specific novel you’d like them to analyze for those features.

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

Edsurge

The five most popular LMSs (Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, D2L and Sakai), which account for more than 90 percent of the market share in higher education, are all designed based on a 10-year-old standard called the Learning Tools Interoperability (or LTI) standard.

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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. Yeah, it was a disaster, or it didn’t work.

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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.

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

Bryan Alexander

Sakai – this academic LMS also appears in at least one group’s paid hosting options. For example, Neil Mosley carved this list into two groups : Broadly speaking they have a choice between – plug & play platforms like Kajabi, Podia, Learnworlds etc, or marketplaces like SkillShare, Domestika etc or the LMS route i.e.

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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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