Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world. .”

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Software Groups OER Industry 68

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. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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OER Company Pearson Resources 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

In late 1997 and early 1998, the free software movement had two problems that were impeding its growth. First, the way its proponents talked about free software came across as incredibly judgmental and holier-than-thou. ’ If you didn’t support free software it was due to your personal moral shortcomings. .’

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. Collections are themed curated resources– digital scrapbooks –gathering a variety of media types to meet the needs of targeted groups of users. Are you leveraging it to its fullest potential? We can create text sets.

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OER Social Media Software Resources 40

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

The major publishers are publicly traded companies with growth and earnings expectations they have to meet. And when the number of units you sell is dropping, the only way to meet revenue goals is to raise prices on the few units you do sell. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.).

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OER Software Outcomes Smartphone 60

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ SIIA, the organization that represents the software industry launched the Student Privacy Pledge , giving school partners that collect data a platform to show their commitment to maintain student privacy.

EdTech 189

EdTech Future Ready Broadband Social Media 189

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Community colleges are known for innovating to meet the challenges of educating some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students: low-income, first-generation, minority, and adult learners. By adopting the adaptive tool, we were able to completely integrate the lab and lecture during the class meeting times. adaptive technology.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs. The answer to that question: Perhaps. Take Adobe , for example.

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Personalized learning, in its broadest application, suggests tailoring instruction to meet the needs, strengths and interests of each learner. Why does personalized learning, ironically, feel so impersonal? Great teachers already do that everyday—with or without technology. This is a mistake.

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Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 95

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 14, 2017

In addition to regular meetings with partner schools where we share insights both surprising and mundane, this work also supports our continuous improvement efforts to make our open courseware objectively more effective term after term. . I spend a lot of my time working in the data generated by use of Lumen’s open courseware.

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Analysis Data Tools Learning 63

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

OER 73

OER Course Company Smartphone 73

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

While students were going through the math remediation courseware, they were also meeting with their peer mentor on a weekly basis using video conferencing.”. For boosting student retention and success and reducing costs by embracing online OER textbooks Northern Arizona University. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.

Tools 89

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 89

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He mentioned Lumen Learning and OER Commons as just two examples. The value of panOpen, Jacobs argues, is its ability to reshape and supercharge open resources into forms that meet student and faculty needs. That nonprofit organization supports open resources and has established copyright licenses to allow them.

Education 40

Education OER Company Libraries 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

I wanted to ask you about OERs. I always meet students. When I go and do young adult tours, and I go to secondary schools, I meet students who've read Little Brother, and they're like, "How do I hack my school's censorware?" Present it at the board meeting. You have these state institutions that are really spread out.

Education 64

Education Exercises OER Meeting 64

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2011

The LearnCentral event page is [link] Gary Lopez is the Founder and Executive Director of Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE, [link] ), a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping meet society’s need for access to quality education, and the manager of the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) and HippoCampus ( [link] ).

Blackboard 66

Blackboard Resources OER Course 66

Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated. Image credits.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Broadband 387

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? A lot of media, telecom, eCommerce, software companies use this model, where customers pay for the service or product for a specific time period. a semester.

OER 16

OER Education MOOC Libraries 16

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. Over 40 STEAM Resources.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

Note: I read some ambiguity in the legislative text both of how this 15 percent will be calculated and also what equipment, tools, software, and content might count toward that 15 percent cap and what might not.

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication. Several participants pointed out limitations on faculty time which block creation and even adoption of OER. Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability.

Conference 40

Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

An open implementation of RISE was recently published in the Journal of Open Source Software. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f The courses we’re using RISE analysis with meet all these criteria. Matt Crosslin has posted a thoughtful response to our RISE article from last year.

OER 93

OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 93

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. While there is a lot of talk on STEAM Education, it can be difficult to find a lot of material.

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STEM Resources Classroom OER 164

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. License Must Not Restrict Other Software.

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OER Software Data Accessibility 60

techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Over 60 Videos to Provide Some Great PBL Ideas at the Follett Challenge ] The 35 Resources NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free.

STEM 85

STEM Resources Classroom OER 85

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free. ArtSTEM – Claims to be a site where the Arts and Humanities meet the STEM Disciplines.

STEM 60

STEM Resources OER Conference 60

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. Or remix existing open source tools to meet their needs.

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OER Secondary Software Outcomes 96

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 16, 2016

In many contexts – like open content, open educational resources, open source software, open access, and open data – “open” means “free plus permissions.” A dozen or more years ago I was sitting in a meeting at MIT. Matthew hints toward a path through the confusion later. There are mistakes to avoid.

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Resources Education OER Software 60

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In its simplest form, digital courseware refers to the curriculum delivered through customized software to facilitate teaching and learning. Viable adoption options to meet the needs of institutions. Customized Courseware – Custom digital courseware is mostly developed by colleges and universities to meet their unique needs.

eBook 98

eBook Gamification Education OER 98

Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Breakout EDU experiences have been used at faculty meetings, parent nights at schools, at all types of education conferences, and, of course, in many classroom settings. But it is not just the hardware and software improvements of the Chromebook that have made it a choice for many schools. But these are just my opinions.

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Chromebook Android Trends OER 40

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. I spent most of my thinking time last week wondering about obstacles in the way of the ubiquitous adoption of OER in US higher education and how we might overcome them.

OER 60

OER Education Course Instructional Materials 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal. government, yet 92 percent of its most popular sites fail to meet basic standards for security, speed, mobile friendliness, or accessibility. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad. Tagged on: March 9, 2017 Belgrade schools may tap $1.5M

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

It was great to meet and talk with some very creative and inspirational people during my travels in 2011. He requested a meeting with me after reading my blog reportage of his speech. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept.

OER 53

OER Broadband Laptops Social Media 53

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via the Journal & Courier : “Legislation that set the stage for Purdue's dive into online higher ed also exempts ‘New U’ from state’s open meetings, public records laws. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. That, Purdue says, was part of the deal.”

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” The NAACP endorses OER. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Oh.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47