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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

eSchool News

Students tackle lessons at their own pace as they work in groups to focus on concepts they find most challenging. “I Central Valley is one of several Beaver County school districts finding ways to supplement or completely replace paper textbooks with online materials such as eBooks, downloadable apps and openly licensed educational resources.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) ” But what did Facebook do?

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Volunteering : as with our other conference 2.0 Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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.” a month.). .” ” (Wow.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Altius Education. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. I thought maybe this is the way it works.”.

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