Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. But while many benefits of OER are visible on the surface, we must notice the fine print.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

David Wiley, a pioneer of open education resources who co-founded Lumen Learning , a for-profit company that supports OER efforts, sees one place where textbooks could actually be vanquished by openly licensed alternatives: community colleges. How do you deal with that? In fact, that day may not be far off. But look at Red Hat.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Technology in the classroom is nothing new; most of today’s educators have embraced the ability to draw upon an increasingly diverse array of digital tools and programs to enrich their lessons. Still, the ability to deliver all of these capabilities depends on the specifics of the implementation – which brings us to “how.”.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 12, 2015

He writes, “While to an OER advocate faculty are mere pawns to their agenda, to publishers, faculty are critical partners in academic success.” ” The overwhelming majority of OER advocates are faculty, and they have become OER advocates for two reasons.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Our students use technology for learning, connecting with friends and entertainment. When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. As he moved around into different grade levels and roles, Rich discovered his passion for using technology to teach. para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . but should be).

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. Department of Education that establish learning achievement goals for math and literacy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But OER is not free, since it costs money to develop the materials, takes time for professors to evaluate and adopt them, and typically involves other campus-support services as well. A report released last week gives perhaps the most detailed accounting of the pricetag to colleges looking to make signiciant moves to OER.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Wrangling technology can be maddening even in optimally designed classrooms. When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. Vivi has made her more flexible in how she teaches and how she interacts with groups within her classroom.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Some common 21st-century skills include critical thinking, creativity, digital literacy, technology literacy, information literacy and self-direction. With digital textbooks, students learn how to use technology responsibly and pull information from a variety of digital sources.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). The letter was a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for suggestions around how to strengthen the U.S.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Digitally Mature Leaders .

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

Which states and nations are willing to take this new technology head-on and which are going to be more cautious in their recommendations. When you have leadership at the state level that puts out statements such as: “This is our moment, Washingtonians, to lead the country and to lead the globe,” Reykdal said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Crisp continued, “I would design for today's working adult who hasn't had opportunity to keep up with the pace of technological change. dlnchat I would design for today's working adult who hasn't had opportunity to keep up with the pace of technological change. People deserve to choose when, where and how to study.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

That seemed to resonate with the group, and conversations around how to go beyond open materials into more open teaching methods continued throughout the day. How are technology decisions being made at our institutions? Before closing the keynote talk, Mitchell left listeners with another question: Is open content enough?

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

Change is so complicated and messy there’s an entire discipline dedicated to trying to understand how to successfully support and manage change. And because students and faculty are people, they are likely to be uncomfortable with – and even resistant to – change.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. Instead, he used a familiar set of educational technologies, but often used them in unfamiliar ways. Technology is not what makes or breaks an online class. I’ve ordered your book as well.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. The question we pondered was how to preserve these gains as teachers modified BHP courses, and specific lessons evolved over time. The challenge of using OER in the classroom is not just finding good content, but instilling good practices.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

There was some hesitation because if you’re not comfortable using technology, it’s like ‘How do I use a new curriculum and new technology?’ But the move to OER and digital curriculum hasn’t been completely smooth for everyone, Williams adds. Corrine Williams. says Williams. “We

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Sparrow, the university’s senior director of teaching and learning with technology, thinks the fears that some faculty have about artificial intelligence taking their jobs echos the concern some had 20 years ago when higher education was first “branching out into online learning.” Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University. Feldstein argues that creating a shared, open-source platform can lead to insights on how to improve adaptive courseware and virtual experiences, and even how to improve teaching practices.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

I haven’t heard much since it opened back up,” says Kristina Peters, public interest technology fellow at New America who worked with Amazon during a previous fellowship at the U.S. It’s something that teachers feel very comfortable with because most people know how to use Amazon,” she says. “We Department of Education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

June 17, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) announced that Dr. Karen Richardson, Executive Director, Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Candice Dodson Influencer Award (CDIA).

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

While OER was presented as one way to ease course material costs, other challenges remain, starting with understanding and awareness of what the term means. Still, sustainable ways to fund OER into the future remains an open question. Austin, Texas outside of the SXSW EDU conference And that was just the start.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But one way small and rural districts can close this gap is by offering a robust 1 Mbps per student Internet connection that can serve as the backbone for a myriad of opportunities through technology. The decision to be an early adopter of OER put the one-school district on the map, earning a visit in 2015 from then-U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. Curating OER. What’s curation?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

With that in mind, institutions should ask: How will an impending market consolidation affect my institution? Paul Freedman : They should consider how to not go out of business. What will be the most important technological development in higher education in 2018? Terah Crews: Active-learning classroom technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. The right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive. EdSurge: Why are you such a proponent of OER in higher ed? Here’s how I look at it.

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techlearning

MARCH 15, 2018

In a recent report by Innovative Educator Lisa Nielsen, she writes, “Successful adoption of technology into the curriculum requires a happy marriage between curriculum and technology. The key to staying out of divorce court is remembering that it’s not about technology. Mobile devices. Social Media. Data Privacy.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 31, 2016

Knovation Makes Open Educational Resources More Manageable and More Efficient Many schools are looking to lower costs by transitioning away from text books to Open Education Resources. EmergingEdTech. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. How to grow its functionality?

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User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

We are living in an age of advanced user-driven technologies, information abundance, and networked, participatory learning. Learner Agency, Technology, and Emotional Intelligence. Educator as a Demonstrator of Technologies. A subtitle of this section is It Really Is About the Technology. Through Education 2.0

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. For more inspiration, check out these posts: We Are Teachers: Teachers are Creating Virtual Bitmoji Classrooms Bitmoji Classroom Tutorials (Jenny Murphy) How to Create a Virtual Bitmoji Scene in Google Slides or PowerPoints (Shana Ramin).

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