Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

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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Report OER Trends Industry 66

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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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The open source software side of the open house has absolutely no issue with commercial entities using or contributing to open source software. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?” What the heck is going on?

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OER Pearson Microsoft Education 60

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. Collections can help reduce instructional planning and research time, maximizes visibility and usage of your educational resources, and encourages deeper learning in and outside the classroom. Are you leveraging it to its fullest potential?

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OER Social Media Software Resources 40

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

In the last quarter of 2015, they released their findings in “ Students Computers and Learning: Making the Connection”. Business and technology have become truly complementary: Forbes gives the example of engine manufacturers relying on software to push forward production. Digitally Mature Students.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades. Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.)

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OER Analysis Software Outcomes 147

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

. When technology is offered to schools free of charge, it always comes with the promise of improving teaching and learning. Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

SchoolMessenger Passport allows districts to provide teachers, staff, parents and students with quick and secure access to online learning applications, open educational resources (OER), and a variety of school management and administration software programs using a single sign-on.

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CMS OER Social Media Microsoft 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

From giving kids problems with the right level of difficulty to solving problems with students, learn how to take any math student to the next level. You’ll also learn about the open source resource, Expii invented by Po-Shen Loh and how you can use it. READ: Learn about the USA Math Olympiad Team. What makes Expii unique?

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Classroom OER Software System 227

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

I look forward to learning from you! He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. One example used was Google’s idea to allow its employees 20% percent job time for self direction.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 27, 2016

Andrew Rickard has written a thoughtful essay on OER, open pedagogy, and commercial interests. In the interest of transparency let me remind the reader that I co-founded and currently work at Lumen Learning , a for-profit entity that works in the open education space. Think about our older sibling, the open source software movement.

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OER Knewton Software Company 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

But Large Language Models (LLMs), and particularly the recent demo of ChatGPT, seem to have put the fear of God into everyone from middle school English teachers to the CEO of Google. And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well.

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OER LMS Resources Course 192

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 16, 2016

In many contexts – like open content, open educational resources, open source software, open access, and open data – “open” means “free plus permissions.” Just for fun, look at Google’s definition of open. Matthew hints toward a path through the confusion later.

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Resources Education OER Software 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our two-month, free, online summit focused on home-based and home-centered learning officially started last week. Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Sign up now: [link] Whether by circumstance or choice, learning at home is now the reality for more students than ever.

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual reality hit the educational community in 2016 with the release of the low-cost 360° cameras (like the Ricoh Theta series) and the prominent use of Google Cardboard headsets for classroom use. My August Kathy’s Katch column provides many other ways this phenomenon can be used to support teaching and learning.

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Chromebook Android Trends OER 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That led to him announcing a $10 million fund specifically for learning applications. Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). A Wi-Fi system.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

“Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘ learning to code ’ agenda” by Ben Williamson, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Catarina Player-Koro, and Neil Selwyn. ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.” Importantly, students and other informal learners will have an equal number of new opportunities with regard to their learning.

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OER Education Course Resources 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

OLPC is premised on the basis of one child interacting with one free laptop, in many ways a counter to social forms of learning witnessed in communal contexts such as Mitra's Hole in the Wall project. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept.

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OER Broadband Laptops Social Media 53

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” Can Electrical Stimulation Help Us Learn?” CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” ” Immigration and Education. “Zap!

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. ” Rebrand.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” “How Can VR be Used for Learning?”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. ”).

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” Via Edsurge : “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning.” ” “The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. ” The company has raised $16.5

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times. ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Faces Internal Backlash Over Handling of Sexual Harassment.” ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Employees Stage Worldwide Walkout.” Mindfulness !

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. .” ” Hooray. ” Testing.

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” From the press release : “ Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab Release Blockchain Technology for Educational Credentials.” ” “ Lifeliqe debuts VR -enabled educational content to keep kids interested in learning,” says Techcrunch. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.” million in Series B funding from Google Ventures. The Business of Job Training. ” Contests and Awards.

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The company behind the ACT on Wednesday announced plans for a Center for Equity in Learning, which will focus on helping underserved students succeed in college and the work force.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Adam Bellow Becomes CEO of Breakout EDU to Spread Gamified Learning.” “Is Estonia the new Finland ?

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. Enjoy your Google for Education products !

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60