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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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The research suggests that participation is improved when digital education systems integrate communication tools that help learners collaborate and get feedback from their instructors. For example, biology professor Peggy Brickman worked with OpenStax, a nonprofit OER publisher, to create a “UGA Concepts of Biology” textbook.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. Why don’t I instead build a system or a platform where we can have hundreds of different possible textbooks to teach the concepts I’m teaching?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Digital badges.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Once these questions have been asked and high-level goals are identified and established, it’s easier to work toward them and identify the right digital platforms and applications that can help you meet those goals. Ultimately, these systems help students take ownership of their own learning, inside the classroom and out.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Intellus Learning allows instructors to access high-quality open education resources (OER) and other openly licensed content, as well as their institution’s academic library materials to help meet budgetary goals. Where to Find & Curate OER Resources ] Faculty can curate and assign pertinent OER and library content to students.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

The Curriculum Meets Educational Technology… Avoiding Tech Shine. Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Relevant Nouns – research, planets, solar system. The nouns could point to numerous OER (Open Educational Resource) sites available on the internet.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Representatives from our 12 new districts and 7 interim districts met at the fall 2018 League meeting in Park City, UT. Kim Smith, Executive Director of the League of Innovative Schools, visits the Academies of Loudoun, one of the school visit sites of the fall 2019 League of Innovative Schools meeting. 11 States Visited.

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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. emphasis added).

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ But how does the community know?

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I love everything Rajiv is saying in his recent, excellent essay Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy and I’m really looking forward to the discussion we’ll have when he presents this paper early next month. ” I interpret this slightly differently in the context of OER advocacy than he does.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

As a member of Alan’s Team all year, it is a lot of fun to meet so many people from around the world at his summer conference in Boston. Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. Learn more at the conference master classes page.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2015

Another Old Law Meets a New Technology. Open Content Meets the Internet. There is nothing about OER adoption that forces innovative teaching practices on educators. Sadly, many of the educators who choose OER end up driving them on the road, anyway. Looking Ahead: Open Pedagogy and OER Adoption. Open Pedagogy.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Especially important is a strategy to align digital learning plans to participation in the E-rate program and any state programs designed to meet similar ends (including those beyond K-12 education that support broadband build out to universities, hospitals, libraries, or public safety institutions).

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last few posts we discovers nouns that could uncover OER (Open Education Resources) and verbs that could lead to important digital tools that allow for process development. Past Series Articles.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. There was a side meeting on national governments making resources openly resources by default. For example, Oregon announced grants to fund OER creation.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. There was a side meeting on national governments making resources openly resources by default. For example, Oregon announced grants to fund OER creation.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 24, 2016

Later that week I’m a discussant in the ELI 2016 Online Spring Focus Session , talking about next generation learning management systems. Topics: OER and more. I’d be delighted to meet up, insane scheduling permitting. While the focus is on education and technology, I hope to add other contexts.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 24, 2016

Later that week I’m a discussant in the ELI 2016 Online Spring Focus Session , talking about next generation learning management systems. Topics: OER and more. I’d be delighted to meet up, insane scheduling permitting. While the focus is on education and technology, I hope to add other contexts.

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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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Unfortunately, many of the tools available only meet a small portion of teachers’ needs or they are prohibitively expensive.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” So when people tell the story of how the term “OER-enabled pedagogy” came to be they should absolutely include Maha in it.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn more about gaming while at ISTE—and beyond: Book a meeting at ISTE 2018 to learn about Classcraft’s Engagement Management System for schools and districts, and the Quests Marketplace featuring partners like Google Education, Discovery Educator Network, Newsela, LRNG, Breakout EDU and OER Commons.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

The value proposition that Knewton and its competitors have offered to these companies is that by collecting user data, the system can infer what a student knows—or doesn’t. It has already scaled back support for its learning management system tools. K-12 courseware business under “ strategic review.”

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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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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

Come and meet up with the edWeb team at ISTE in Philadelphia next week. Learn about how to use open educational resources (OER) in your classroom! Net Texts is a two part system designed to make finding and using OER easier. Check out the content management system and app and start playing around today.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

2) discounted the price of its Windows operating system for new school-purchased devices, and 3) enrolled 700 additional schools in its IT Academy program. Over the past few years, the government has made several moves in other edtech spaces, mostly related to open educational resources (OERs) and evangelizing innovation from the top-down.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

Supporters of OER also point out that for resources to meet this definition, it’s not enough that resources branded as “open” be free. If a district abandons commercial materials for a portion of its curriculum, that process of identifying and curating open resources can be a big lift for K-12 systems.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Fortunately, districts appear to be meeting these challenges head-on, as evidenced by a recent panel discussion for administrators and tech directors in Dallas, hosted by the IT products vendor PCMG , called “Preparing the Next Generation of Personalized Learners in the Digital Age.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Chris Deason, Course Director (Associate Professor SPOTLIGHT: Global Classroom 2013-14 Stories & Project Launch - Mr Michael Graffin (@mgraffin) 7:00am ED4ALL - EU and the Albanian higher education system; What happens when they meet?

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I recently attended one of the community meetings discussing whether or not a national open education policy is needed in the US. There were two other meetings I did not attend, so I can’t speak to them. There were several times during the meeting when attendees were asked to contribute their thoughts on a range of topics.

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