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. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). And there's the fact that surveys show many students still prefer printed textbooks to digital ones. Concern About Lock-In?

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 121

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Help me better serve you by completing this short, 60-second survey. This survey is your chance to let me know more about you and what you need in 2023. Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. See: Copyright Policy. Click To Tweet.

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Google eBook Assessment OER 95

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via Edsurge : “Experts Look Into the Crystal Ball of the Next Administration’s Ed Policy.” ” “ Deloitte Publishes 2016 Digital Education Survey,” says Edsurge. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” ” The Other US Clown Crisis.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 66

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

The State Policy Network has a plan to counter union activism with anti-union PR. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. ” asks Edsurge.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

“A new Education Department policy will dramatically limit the amount of student loan relief some students get after being misled by their schools.” The Chronicle of Higher Education on the latest report from the Babson Survey Research Group on OER adoption: “Use of Free Textbooks Is Rising, but Barriers Remain.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.” IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” Via USA Today : “Survey: Millennials hold complex views on education.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

.” Via The Atlantic : “A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual Assault Policy.” Via Chalkbeat : “How Trump’s tax law may have just gotten in the way of Betsy DeVos ’ favorite policy.” His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Because “open.”).

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” Via The 74 : “ Trump Towers Over Education: How His Candidacy Is Already Affecting Federal Policy.” .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Finds Unlikely Culprit in School Shootings: Obama Discipline Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Visas Issued to Foreign Students Fall, Partly Due to Trump Immigration Policy.” Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, and Eddie Watson introduce The CARE Framework for OER.

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Education MOOC Company Report 47

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” “For online lenders , it’s suddenly touch-and-go,” says Techcrunch.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” The NAACP endorses OER. Via The Cambridge Student : “National student boycott invalidates National Student Survey data.” Education Politics. Not much,” says The LA Times’ Joy Resmovits.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” The task force, put together by Entangled Solutions , includes “25 members from think tanks (including education policy wonk Rick Hess from the American Enterprise Institute), colleges (University of Texas), coding bootcamps (Galvanize), investment banking (Tyton Partners), and accounting firms (Ernst & Young).”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

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. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via the Sunlight Foundation : “A look at local education data policies.” More on the National Crime Victimization Survey via Politico. ” Phil Hill also weighs in on the latest Babson survey on OER. I wish more education companies would follow his lead. Illegal or not, this is such a dumb idea.

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Education Company Report Data 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. ” Via Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog : “ Google-Gallup Survey now Disaggregated by States: Fascinating and confusing reading.” .” “ $80 Million Hack Shows the Dangers of Programmable Money.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Edsurge on the business of OER. Via NPR : “More Than Half Of Transgender Teachers Surveyed Tell NPR They Are Harassed At Work.” ” Inside Higher Ed reports on a Foreign Policy report: “ China Intensifying Oversight of U.S. .” Edsurge on teachers leaving the classroom to join tech companies.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

“15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. ” Inside Higher Ed looks at how Notre Dame is changing its policies and practices regarding campus sexual assault.

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Education OER Pearson Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

According to the Babson Survey Research Group, which released the last of its annual surveys of online education this year , “more than one in four students (28%) now take at least one distance education course (a total of 5,828,826 students, a year-to-year increase of 217,275).” last year to 63.3% last year to 63.3%

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Adaptive Learning Products Gain Ground in K–12, Market Survey Finds.” “Why Americans Think So Poorly of the Country’s Schools” – Jack Schneider on polls and surveys about public education. .”

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Education LMS Robotics Coursera 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. Some (education policy) history from Sherman Dorn : “The pendulum and the ratchet.” ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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