Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. What next for the LMS?

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). Several participants pointed out limitations on faculty time which block creation and even adoption of OER.

Conference 40

Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via Edsurge : “ Salesforce Announces Mobile App for Advising at Dreamforce.” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” ” Via The Atlantic : “How ‘ Daycare ’ Became ‘ School ’ ” Via Edutechnica : “4th Annual LMS Data Update.”

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

“Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘ learning to code ’ agenda” by Ben Williamson, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Catarina Player-Koro, and Neil Selwyn. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. ” Inside Higher Ed takes a closer look at a game called Givling , a mobile trivia app “that promises winners a payout of up to $50,000 on their student loan debt.” Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here. Because “open.”).

Education 41

Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. The mobile app maker has raised $11.9 .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” million total.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. The LMS isn’t the only platform in education to be sure. Automated Essay Grading.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Winnie is a new mobile app that, according to Techcrunch , “helps parents find family-friendly places, share their experiences.” PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. ” From Lumen Learning’s David Wiley : “Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption.”

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). Via KQED’s Mindshift : “ MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity.” It’s about 50 years old if you recognize some of PLATO’s functionality is LMS-like.) From WCET : “ In Defense of the LMS.”

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