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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Continuous improvement is an iterative cycle. Beginning the cycle again.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

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. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”. It’s much harder to see that if we go back to the world of paper and pencil, bubble tests….they’re they’re not fit for what we need to prepare young people….to to apply things to the real world. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.

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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. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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