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Innovation In E-learning In The Last 10 Years

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Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. However, it has taken the e-learning industry by storm. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry.

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The 2018 ‘Horizon Report’ Is Late. But It Almost Never Emerged.

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And the group will continue to use the software developed by NMC to coordinate the research, which was among the assets purchased by Educause. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. These days, OER quality frameworks have emerged and the technology is more commonplace on campuses.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

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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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Why ‘Personalized Learning’ Can Feel So Impersonal

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Technology companies—in all industries—make users anxious when they describe their work with the vagueness of a magician. Let’s, for instance, take how companies like Google and Facebook “personalize” a user’s web browsing experience through search results, ads and content—and then apply that to instructional experiences.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

In describing her coining of the phrase “open source software” in 1998, Christine Peterson wrote : The introduction of the term “open source software” was a deliberate effort to make this field of endeavor more understandable to newcomers and to business, which was viewed as necessary to its spread to a broader community of users.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Washington Post : “There’s a well-funded campus industry behind the Ann Coulter incident.” CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Don’t click. Never click.

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