ProfHacker

MAY 20, 2016

A recurring favorite topic for ProfHacker writers over the years has been alternatives to, or ways to dispense altogether with, learning management systems. This week, Adam Croom combined these topics, showing how to use Jekyll as an LMS replacement.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. They indicate the richness of today’s unfolding LMS discussion, and help illuminate where things might be headed.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2016

The panelists discussed current models of blended learning and provided visual examples of what these models looked like in various schools, classroom structure, open education resources (OER), learning management systems (LMS), creating flipped videos, flipped instruction , workflow, and challenges.

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Blended Learning OER eBook LMS 166

EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). OS – Operation system (e.g. BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning.

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

LMS provider itslearning and Gooru , a nonprofit organization which provides a free online learning navigator for educators of the same name, announced a strategic partnership to enhance itslearning’s platform with open educator-curated content and successful practices for personalized learning.

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LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 49

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Learning Management System (LMS). During the last ten years, many corporate giants and schools have started using Learning Management System to train employees, students or customers. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. And of course, Instructure (Canvas), Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle), Longsight (Sakai), and other companies provide for-fee, value-added services around Learning Management Systems hosting and support.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

These mobile messages keep students connected to course material and let students know we care about them, but the system is still too one-size-fits-all. Enhance OER access It has been well documented that students are reluctant to pay for textbooks and that the price of textbooks is particularly crippling for community college students.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 86

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. So what do we do with the results of this research?

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 192

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. If you start with my github repo, you can build an LMS, a web site, an online teaching system, and even a camera ready textbook ready for printing using 100% free software. It’s got everything you need.

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Coursera OER LMS Software 88

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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OER LMS Assessment Course 60

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

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 58

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. Similarly, the trend toward OER and greater competition among vendors is also expected to negatively impact the LMS market. Similarly, the trend toward OER and greater competition among vendors is also expected to negatively impact the LMS market.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

OER Possibilities. LMS Integration. This capability provides teachers the ability to use a multitude of OER (Open Education Resources) and web applications that are bountiful on the internet. While an LMS (Learning Management System) can provide some of these capabilities, many of the below tools can be integrated with an LMS.

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Assessment Tools LMS OER 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. It is all possible with CK-12.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. The idea of eLearning progressed and soon incorporated the Learning Management System (LMS).

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

Malcolm draws on those to illuminate the titular six: device ownership and mobile-first; the textbook and open educational resources (OER); adaptive learning technology; learning spaces; the next-generation learning management system (LMS); and learning analytics and integrated planning and advising services (IPAS).

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Technology LMS OER Learning Analytics 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Strategy OER Education Policies 145

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. They would be delivered to your learning management system or downloaded into an Excel notebook, or whatever vehicle can absorb them.”.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

On the other end of the spectrum is courseware that includes a collection of content and assessments tools from various vendors, open educational resources (OER), or homegrown efforts. A popular middle-ground option is digital courseware that interfaces with a college’s learning management system (LMS) and can be customized.

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OER Assessment LMS Analysis 65

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). The LMS market is mature, although the tools are immature. The LMS market is mature, although the tools are immature. Now 65-75% of classes use the campus LMS.

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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OER LMS Software Course 103

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). Examine Your LMS (Learning Management System).

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Blended Learning Technology OER Digital Citizenship 60

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. Below I share some thoughts prompted by the article.

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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OER LMS Learning Sakai 60

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

However, most people remain unaware of OER. Bonk offered detail feedback, including citing the importance of face to face learning, plus the value of embedded systems to help learning. Michael at Keene State College asked about taking advantage of open in an intentionally closed environment, like a learning management system (LMS).

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free?”, ”, and “If OER are free, why would anyone pay you?”

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OER Company Learning Analytics Outcomes 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The new text book might instead be the LMS (Learning Management System). ▪Textbooks and OER. We must realize that while the hard copy textbook could be on its way out, there might not be a virtual digital textbook ready to take its place. Making the move toward a student centered classroom may actually be the main initiative.

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Technology Flipped Classroom Learning STEM 60

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. Best of all, many of these lessons can be incorporated in a Learning Management System (LMS). So many of the ideas can blend into your LMS!

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Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Another example might be the teacher curating the curriculum for students using their LMS (Learning Management System). Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60