NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. colleges use at least one.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We're excited to be holding our third Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Sustainability in Libraries ," online (and for free) this Wednesday, October 14th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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Libraries Conference OER System 36

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 143

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. it’s an interesting trend.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

The second of our three free Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: " Library as Classroom ," is this Wednesday, June 15th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Libraries Conference Classroom Social Media 28

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Librarians might create grade- and curricular-relevant folders of highly engaging content, perhaps OER. Librarians might also create little library-based corners for Reading Progress. Spotlight Cards track interesting data as students complete assignments. Imagine the potential for librarians as supporters of literacy.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media. You can also browse the entire CC Flickr library by license at [link].

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media. You can also browse the entire CC Flickr library by license at [link].

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OER Handbook Examples Social Media 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2015

Library 2.015 Spring Summit Recap On April 30th we held the first ever Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , a half-day conversation about technology issues and trends in the future of library and information services. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues!

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Libraries Digital Citizenship Future Ready Conference 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

And students have complained that moving to digital textbooks removes the option of borrowing from the library or a friend and avoid paying for course materials. —The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, in a brief opposing the merger of two of the largest textbook publishers.

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Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 95

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

To that end, we have created an OER library of reviewed materials to help support districts. Materials can be printed or can be digital; they may include textbooks, technology-based materials or other educational media. And all could carry different licenses, from open to all rights reserved. The DMAPS site is available here: [link].

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Instructional Materials Report OER Policies 40

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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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

JSTOR : A digital library housing thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources. It’s a platform for educators looking to stay updated on the latest trends and research. WorldCat : A global catalog of library collections, WorldCat helps locate books, DVDs, articles, and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Good things are happening and possible.”

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Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. The students at Algonquin Regional High School helped their local towns with tech support nights at local libraries. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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OER EdTech Learning iPad 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). Pearson agreed. Reiser & J. New York, NY: Pearson Education.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Long before CBE was trending, Southern New Hampshire University gave it a test drive, largely in part to the vision of its president, Paul LeBlanc. You get into things like bundling, you think about OER and alternatives to expensive content. . It’s going to be great, actually. What happens if we could reverse that?

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Competency Based Learning OER Assessment Company 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Libraries and Librarians ? Open Source and OER ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic!

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 18, 2018

On Sunday, I am looking forward to LITA’s annual Top Technology Trends panel at 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. Top Technology Trends features our ongoing roundtable discussion about trends and advances in library technology by a panel of LITA technology experts and thought leaders.

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How To Social Media Trends OER 41

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The business of OER. ” This seems to fly in the face of the library profession ’s belief in privacy. From investors Chian Gong and Jennifer Carolan, writing in Edsurge : “ Spotting the 2017 Trends That Fuel Edtech Innovation and Investments.” TBH, I still can’t remember what Unizin actually is.

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” ” (Yes, I’m tracking on this sort of thing as part of my 2017 “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. 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.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. “ The top 5 trends in K–12 ed tech – and where they’re headed,” according to Education Dive. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. But only if you let it.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

. “In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports. (It’ll

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

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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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

“Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” “School libraries can serve as personalized learning hotspots,” says Education Dive – but only if libraries fail to protect student privacy and gather lots of clicks about what students are doing, which seems fundamentally anti-librarian to me. .”

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Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. To continue a trend that I monitored last year , it’ll be worth watching who becomes a power-player in the business of ed-tech procurement. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.

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