EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

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. This is the level of vitality of smartphones which makes it necessary for the e-learning industry to introduce mLearning, i.e., mobile learning on a large scale.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

The forthcoming resources will expand on this idea and guide educators in using AI in a way that empowers them as educators and students as learners within the learning process. On page 11 of the guidance are two of my favorite bullet points that I’m not sure I’ve seen in other state guidance so far. are my two favorites.

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OER UDL Training Industry 67

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. Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” Last year, the U.S.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

Expand Educational Resources to Student Toolkits. Schools can use tools such as Learning Registry to collaborate on open educational resources (OERs), pulling content created by educators around the district, purchased, or taken from outside sources. Find the Tools to Introduce Interoperability. by Eli Zimmerman.

Competency Based Learning 185

Competency Based Learning OER Data Comparison 185

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

David Wiley, a longtime textbook researcher and advocate for open educational resources, says many faculty still latch on to print—and for some good reasons. We need to be asking this of all digital materials, even open educational resources.” A report by investment bank Macquarie estimated that print titles made up 45 percent of U.S.

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. With OER, the report notes, “initial advances in the authoring platform or curation method of open resources is now overshadowed by campuswide OER initiatives and sophisticated publishing options that blend adaptive elements into an OER text.”

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Report OER Trends Industry 64

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 194

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools.

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OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 239

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

An instructor can type in a concept or idea, such as “industrial design,” into the tool his team built, called Eureka!, Once the tool generates results, the instructor can identify which ones are most like what he means by “industrial design” or whichever term he used. Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.

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Robotics OER Industry Education 128

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

Use of free course materials among college students is up, with 22 percent downloading at least one such resource during the spring 2019 semester, according to research published Wednesday by the National Association of College Stores. Its findings are of special interest in light of recent shifts in the textbook industry.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 143

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means. The amount of free information online dwarfs the amount of information available as OER. OER are not a threat to publishers simply because they’re free.

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OER Industry Accessibility Resources 60

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 64

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. Open’ is not the same thing as digital,” said Nicole Allen, director of open education at SPARC, an academic coalition that advocates for open sharing and resources.

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OER EdTech Company Data 76

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. Apart from rental services, these publishers can earn revenue through banner ads, and also by offering additional learning resources.

Technology 80

Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). It can also help educators determine what digital resources may work best to help support learning. Best of all, they are free and contain quality resources. I have a list of over 20 possibilites at the conclusion of this artcile.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. These resources are filling the void as big publishers die a richly deserved death, but most of them aren’t very compelling. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality. Kids won’t lie when a lesson has no spark or relevance.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 97

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We saw a of myriad new and exciting programs—like centers where high school students apply industry skills, collaborative spaces for students across multiple grade levels, and physical environment extensions for blind students. 7 Education Innovation Clusters Resources. We hope to visit even more districts in 2019!

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Data Conference Assessment OER 167

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Cable quickly introduced the Creative Commons project as the global standard for open licensing for copyrighted resources. 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. It’s been working for 15 years.

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Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Cable quickly introduced the Creative Commons project as the global standard for open licensing for copyrighted resources. 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. It’s been working for 15 years.

Trends 40

Trends OER Policies Conference 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content. Sample screenshot of what students see in Alta.

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Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 65

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2015

Publishers want “high quality” to mean educational resources that are “written by experts, copyedited by professionals, reviewed by peers, laid out by graphic designers, and provided in multiple formats,” with literally no reference to results. What we need to know is how much do students who use the resources learn?

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OER Outcomes Pearson Resources 60

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education’s recent selection of Knovation’s curated open education content is a signal that publishers and ed-tech providers are jockeying to find ways to take advantage of open education resources. “I don’t see OER as a threat,” said Willig.

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Data LMS Competency Based Learning OER 100

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

You may gasp, but gaming is a multi-billion-dollar industry for a reason. Visit our blog for practical advice and resources to create meaningful classroom experiences. Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 124

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Resources: Data Quality Campaign (stat source) & Future of Privacy Forum ).

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EdTech Future Ready Social Media Broadband 189

Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

School districts across the country are experimenting with “open” educational resources–and they’re getting strong encouragement from the Obama administration. ” Backers of open education resources often define them as materials released under licenses that allow for their free use, repurposing, and modification as users see fit.

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Software Groups OER Industry 74

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

According to the document, “the recent steep declines in the e-learning industry essentially mean that the e-learning era is effectively over. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. One headwind specific to the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

The second obstacle standing in the way of the broad adoption of free software was the word “free” Many free software advocates understood that without adoption and use by business and industry, free software would never live up to its transformative potential. I took out a yellow legal pad and began brainstorming names.

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Some of its content comes from existing open resources, and the rest is created by students, professors and outside experts from scratch. The truth of the matter is that no textbook or resource is going to be 100 percent accurate, ever,” says Daniel Williamson, managing director at OpenStax.

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Accessibility OER eBook Course 60

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. Rule 1: Openly licensed resources cannot be overused or overconsumed. A Different Commons Game.

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OER Resources Groups Accessibility 97

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While virtual resources abound, the systems are not coordinated enough to fully address teachers’ curriculum-design needs and to support them as they help students build a coherent body of knowledge. Sharing Platforms – Ralyea notes that a major aspect of digitization is the ability to share standards-aligned resources with peers.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). Today, this is the new normal – open sharing and collaboration within what is otherwise an absolutely cutthroat industry.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like some states and districts, we created open access textbooks and taught teachers how to curate open educational resources (OER), thus freeing up textbook monies for other purposes? (kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

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Education OER Future Ready Blended Learning 100

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

As schools and colleges experiment with–and in some cases move to aggressively adopt –“open” educational resources, commercial and nonprofit organizations are trying to address what they see as an underlying need: helping educators organize and enhance that content. Open Education Resources Get Major Boost from ESSA.

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Education OER Company Libraries 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week’s filing was made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, and it says that in the short run, allowing the marriage of the companies would create a duopoly in the textbook market, with the new combined publisher rivaled in size only by Pearson.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 93

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. continues to grow, how can edtech help serve this population?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

However, the students from lower socioeconomic statuses do not have the financial resources to wait long enough to see the return. The industry of higher education suffers under multiple inefficiencies to create a conducive environment for innovation. If it exists at all, it is ad hoc—aided only by internal or external one-time grants.

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Strategy OER Course System 60