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

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

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. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

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. BryanAlexander @Moodler Are you aware of any learners using Moodle to create and document their own personal learning pathways?

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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OER Course Outcomes System 61

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Siemens: We’ll discuss the OER and licensing dynamics. I know you plan to use OER in the course and encourage participants to create modules using OER. What won’t it cover?

MOOC 108

MOOC OER Coursera Education 108

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. Waymaker is Lumen’s platform for personalized learning. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER.

OER 60

OER LMS Assessment Course 60

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

Adaptive Learning 80

Adaptive Learning OER Learning Course 80

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?

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As such, states can expect to support a great variety of approaches to educational technology in their districts under the program, from those that spend some smaller portion of funds on activities to fill in the gaps in local efforts to those that devote the maximum allowable funds to ambitious personalized learning implementations.

Strategy 231

Strategy EdTech Broadband E-rate 231

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. BryanAlexander @Moodler Are you aware of any learners using Moodle to create and document their own personal learning pathways?

Moodle 40

Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40

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. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. Students will explain orbit, gravity, and gravitational pull.

Technology Support 112

Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” Via Wired UK : “ UK’s Nudge Unit tests machine learning to rate schools and GPs.” Via Education Week : “Two Districts Roll Back Summit Personalized Learning Program.” LaVar Ball Wants to Shake Up the System.” Via Edsurge : “ OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017.

OER 44

OER Education Robotics LMS 44

EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

It’s important to note that normalized gifted programs and lowest-common-denominator whole group teaching are usually not individualized or personalized learning in the same way that software could enable it. It will be more like travel planning for the learning journey and less like teaching in the traditional sense.

Learning 100

Learning Software E-rate Industry 100

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.

LMS 49

LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 49

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We hosted 20 League districts at the ASU GSV conference (thanks to the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), ISTE, CoSN, iNACOL, SXSW EDU, SIIA, NGLC, Remake Learning, JEX, and the EdElements Personalized Learning Summit. Computational Thinking Pathways : Articulating equitable, competency-based K–12 CS/CT pathways.

Data 168

Data Conference Assessment OER 168

edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

dreambox learning. What does the future look like when the promise of personalized learning is realized? Metiri CEO Cheryl Lemke has the latest scoop on five indicators that make or break a school’s progress toward deep, personalized learning with technology. Envision Education at ISTE! Can’t make it?

OER 40

OER iPad EdTech Twitter 40

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

And it is super easy to include them in any learning management system or website. For more information, read: Using Playlists to Personalize Learning by Michael Putnam for Literacy World. How To Create Learning Playlists In A Textbook World by Terry Heick in TeachThought. OER and you: The curation mandate.

Khan Academy 41

Khan Academy OER lynda.com Learning 41

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. Launched in 2011, the SLDS-One Integrated Solution is more than a longitudinal data system.

Data 40

Data Report OER Policies 40

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

The local needs assessment to be conducted by the school district is to be focused on identifying gaps in a school district’s “access to personalized learning experiences supported by technology and professional development for the effective use of data and technology” and is to be updated every three years.

Policies 258

Policies Technology Education OER 258

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

And if we use the Creative Commons license system, we can basically pull all of this global knowledge from our wonderful teachers and our students and collect – we don’t have to collect other people’s questions; we can write our own questions. What is Expii and how can K12 Teachers use it? But once we write them, they’re permanently free.

Classroom 222

Classroom OER Software System 222

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

He’s more proud that he showed that an education provider could thrive without participating in the traditional system of federal financial aid. Borrowing a reporter’s notebook, he drew a diagram of the traditional system, where the dollars flow from the federal government to colleges, while debt flows to the student.

Kaplan 103

Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 103

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

They have all types of random hardware products, subscription sites, apps, digital content, and systems being used in an unaligned and disorganized manner. This was followed by: 2) increased student engagement; 3) project-based learning for student instruction; 4) personalized learning; and 5) intervention for struggling students.

Survey 40

Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Public Private Partnerships - The K-12 Funding Gap : Many inequalities in the American education system can be attributed to massive funding gaps between schools. A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources : Can free and open educational resources (OER) save students money without compromising their content or value? Higher Ed 9:30 a.m.

MOOC 60

MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Via Edsurge : “ Connecticut School District Suspends Use of Summit Learning Platform.” McRaven is stepping down as chancellor of the University of Texas System.

Education 46

Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” ” “What’s So Different About High Tech High Anyway?”

Education 49

Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Betsy DeVos Picked A Student Loan CEO To Run The Student Loan System.” Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning.

Education 53

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example. month gives you a “personalized learning plan.”

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “First Ed-Tech Trade Mission by U.S.

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

We [made] probably the biggest single investment [in the Pearson System of Courses , which] completely rethinks the way that numeracy and literacy are taught in the classroom. How you manage systemic change in those circumstances is not something you should underestimate. Ultimately, it has to be paid for somewhere in the system.

Common Core 76

Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Via The Guardian : “ Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web : ‘The system is failing’ ” It is not entirely clear to me what, per this Edsurge op-ed , higher ed can learn from precision medicine. Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley.

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of North Carolina system Board of Governors voted 24 to 3, with one abstention, Friday to bar litigation by the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights. Via Phil Hill : “Some Ed Tech Perspective on UC ’s Billion-Dollar Payroll System Fiasco.”

Education 51

Education ProctorU Company Report 51

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. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained. ” Via Edsurge : “ Adam Bellow Becomes CEO of Breakout EDU to Spread Gamified Learning.” So the board shifted to one-year contracts.”

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

I really like the part where she compares those who defend the current education system to “flat-earthers.” Keeps Obama Plan to Streamline Loan System.” Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.”

Education 46

Education Data Report Software 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

A Wi-Fi system. In other Salesforce news, “The University of Texas System teams up with Salesforce to turn its learning platform into a learning relationship management system ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.”

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Paul School System.” “ University of California president Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that she wants the system to explore ways to guarantee admission to academically eligible students in the state’s community colleges ,” says Inside Higher Ed. Edsurge on the business of OER. Memos from HR.

Education 47

Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

. $750,000 to the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning ; $685,000 to Roses in Concrete Community School ; $700,000 to Peer Health Exchange ; and the rest to GripTape. ” Via Futurism.com : “Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers.”

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53