Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Although rentals are a good option approved by educational institutes, OER is yet to be widely accepted by educational institutes.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. Top Hat is “partially becoming a publisher—the thing that they’ve long wanted to compete with,” observes Phil Hill, an education industry analyst and consultant. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 126

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. To be sure, there are gold nugget lessons within the vast OER and marketplace libraries, but finding them is difficult and time-consuming. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?”

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases. Does OER currenlty exist in the P-12 sector?”

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. Why Commercial Publishers Should Switch to an OER Model.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Industry data show that there has been a significant decline in student spending on course materials over the last decade,” said a spokesperson for Cengage and McGraw-Hill, in a statement Wednesday.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 95

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He mentioned Lumen Learning and OER Commons as just two examples. The open material could end up serving as features that lure customers in and gives them what they want, Green said, with commercial providers then finding ways to build revenue streams on top of the library of free materials.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. Kajeet , the industry leader for safe, managed mobile solutions, powers the K-12 connected environment.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). That’s one argument made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, which advocates for lower textbook costs and OER.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

This is really similar to the work I do mapping the relationships – financial and otherwise – among various players in the ed-tech industry. said he was fired after five years of leading the for-profit institution after allowing a homeless student to sleep overnight in the college’s library to escape cold weather.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition. .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” Yik Yak has raised $73.5

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The Digital Public Library of America has a new head : John S. ” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless. The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” It’s boom times for the “regret industry.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” Good grief. Phil Hill in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “ Distance Ed ’s Second Act.”

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… “ Here’s How Higher Education Dies – A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns.” Hype men gonna hype.). What does the slide look like?”

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Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. “As a result of this program,” Lumen Learning’s David Wiley wrote , “by fall of 2017 somewhere between 3% and 4% of all community colleges in the US will have at least one all-OER degree program.” of courses use OER.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. “ VR is gaining ground in the academic world and the 3D industry,” says Techcrunch , so it must be true. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Value of Education Industry Sector Transactions Nosedives in 2016.”

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