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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

Edsurge

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. Even the book that I wrote about productivity was envisioned initially by the publisher as for online instructors, and then they asked if I would be willing to broaden the audience.

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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. It can also help educators determine what digital resources may work best to help support learning. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Let’s take a look!

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

Edsurge

The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University. It’s not the first time that someone has tried a marketplace for courseware, notes Stephen Downes, a national expert in online learning technology who runs the long-running OLDaily newsletter.

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#DLNchat: The Skills Gap-Fact or Fantasy?

Edsurge

We started off attempting to land on a set of definitions for skills—many #DLNchat folks suggested we stray away from the terms “hard skills” and “soft skills” to refer to skills specific to one job vs. skills universal to all jobs. At our next #DLNchat , we’ll discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Ed.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It can also help educators determine what digital resources may work best to help support learning. For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. 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.

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Maha, the Path to OER-Enabled Pedagogy, and Technological Determinism

Iterating Toward Openness

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.). ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.).

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. Q from Mitch Weisburgh: “Organizations like General Assembly seem to be putting universities to shame, using tech to accelerate learning.”

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