Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Pearson is Not a Platform. I’m not sure if we can still call Pearson “the world’s largest education company.” Pearson does not have a platform. But Pearson is not a platform.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Social Media, Social Justice and STEM - Eric A Walters, Director of Technology Tikho''s Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia - Natasha Sarkar, CAWST Youth Wavemakers Using VoiceThread to Connect Students with Science Content Specialists - Dr. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. Via WHIO : “ School social media director fired after correcting student’s misspelled tweet.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Forbes has pulled an essay by a professor that advocated that Amazon stores replace public libraries and thus save the taxpayers money. ” More via the AP.

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