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A new framework to guide OER curation

NeverEndingSearch

It is also identified as a leadership area on the Future Ready Librarians Framework. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the privilege of serving on the advisory board of the IMLS study, Exploring OER Curation And The Role of School Librarians. Curation is one of our Shared Foundations.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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Curation and the School Librarian

NeverEndingSearch

It’s identified as a leadership area on the Future Ready Librarians Framework. Meet the Cs (AASL Concurrent session on curation and collaboration). OER and you: The curation mandate. OER: Issues, Possibilities and the Promise of Curation (with Brenda Boyer). Curation Situations Poster.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

The future of ConnectED: Exactly how much play should and does the government have in bringing edtech to K-12? 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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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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itslearning, Gooru enhance LMS platform with open content

eSchool News

The alliance will initially give teachers an avenue to find, remix and share collections and courses of open content designed for future-ready learning. Unfortunately, many of the tools available only meet a small portion of teachers’ needs or they are prohibitively expensive.

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How today’s tech departments are moving into the future

eSchool News

Fortunately, districts appear to be meeting these challenges head-on, as evidenced by a recent panel discussion for administrators and tech directors in Dallas, hosted by the IT products vendor PCMG , called “Preparing the Next Generation of Personalized Learners in the Digital Age.”

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