EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device. Open Education Resources (OER). Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division. Alta is an ideal complement to our publishing strategy, our WileyPLUS platform [its online course and homework platform], and our efforts to promote more affordable curriculum and content solutions, which include print rental and inclusive access.”

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 147

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

A report by investment bank Macquarie estimated that print titles made up 45 percent of U.S. The company reported that 55 percent of its $1.3 higher ed courseware (both print and digital) could fall by as much as 5 percent from 2018, attributing the decline to projected lower student enrollments and growing adoption of OER materials.

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 167

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 5, 2017

Ideally professors need a way to synch attendance with an automatic mobile alert for students and have the option to quickly choose retention strategies differentiated for each learner’s specific on-campus needs (ex: a list of today’s available tutoring sessions, or upcoming MLA Citation workshops at the library).

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 95

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click. He declined to disclose the value of the deal, but said the price reported by The Globe and Mail—under $30 million—is in the ballpark. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. Estimated revenue for the U.S.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 138

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might now discover with their intuitive strategies. Curating OER.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

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. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 138

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. And then, there’s Amazon.

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 113

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Two decades later, their strategy has clearly paid off: for-profit companies create and contribute to an incredible amount of open source software. The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion. contributions per hour over the 400 days covered by the report.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report. Fortunately, there is an effective strategy for personalization as well as an effective delivery system: technology. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Related: New advances in measuring social-emotional learning.

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OER Outcomes Report Technology 71

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

The educator in the role of tour guide of learning possibilities first, observes to discover each learner’s unique way of interacting with the world, and second, based on these observations, suggests or offers resources and strategies to further the learner’s self-directed learning process. Knowles, 1975, p.

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OER Outcomes Resources Accessibility 120

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

They assume that parents, educators and yes, reporters will give learning technologies the same benefit of the doubt that we afford to movie or online shopping recommendation engines. Rather than answering the question, lazy entrepreneurs too frequently offer vacuous references to companies like Amazon and Netflix. This is a mistake.

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Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

This story about K-12 digital rights was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our newsletter. The post OPINION: What’s the high-tech tradeoff for students and teachers?

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 47

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 20, 2020

Please write an annual report. Why a report? But each year I spent time reflecting on the past year and pulling together the many notes and artifacts I’d been collecting into an annual report. It’s important that any report reflects on both pre-pandemic and during pandemic activity.

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Report Adobe OER eBook 138

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. I see HyperDocs as an instructional strategy crying out for school librarian partnership, especially if you are working at a Google Classroom school. Templates abound.

Handbook 49

Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

As page 3 of the report states, this platform is “the first product at Pearson to have an efficacy framework built in from the very beginning,” and the report seems to have been enabled by this integration. Despite claims in the report that the research team includes “PhD-level statisticians” (p.

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Pearson OER Comparison Case Study 60

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). Markson, Cengage’s strategy officer, argued that the company is “extremely committed” to driving down costs for students.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 124

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

Libraries of all kinds serve as formal and informal creative classrooms, supporting learners by employing emerging strategies in learning and engagement. She recently published the Social Media Curation, a Library Technology Report for ALA. These include: play, collaborative exploration of ideas and technologies, and other innovations.

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Libraries Conference Classroom Social Media 28

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A new report from Babson, Pearson, the Online Learning Consortium et al, Grade Level ( pdf ), offers some intriguing observations about campus strategy and leadership. A clear majority of the former, 70.8%, see online learning as “critical to their institution’s long term strategy.” compared to 5.1% for faculty).

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Online Learning Report OER Pearson 40

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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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER. .” making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER. .”

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

You will also see a summary overview, tips for success; some will have differentiated instruction strategies for English Language Learners and special accommodations. I love that it includes some tips and differentiated strategies. Each Idea Spark includes the name of the author, their location, and their Google Certifications.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims.

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This new approach is fueled by trends that have impacted academic publishing over the past decade, including: The Rental Market: Companies like Wiley report textbook rental as the major cause for their recent 27% revenue decline in their Q3 (compared to 2016). Content doesn't come before or after the digital features. But it’s all doable.

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OER How To Industry Assessment 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Digital OER are free. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. Mississippi Learning. Larry Singer, CEO of Open Up Resources.

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OER Course Resources Common Core 48

Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Hechinger Report. Will states enable schools to pursue personalized learning strategies, which make use of technology to create custom-fit lessons for students? Will states enable schools to pursue personalized learning strategies, which make use of technology to create custom-fit lessons for students? 16 November 2016.

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Technology Future Ready Blended Learning EdTech 170

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Comments Section : Students examine a post from a newspaper comment section and explain whether they would use it in a research report.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. The Guardian headline says , “Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes,” but it’s not that secret. The seller: Book Dog Books.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Maia Sharpley , who spent 9 years as vice president for strategy and innovation with Kaplan , is now a full partner with Learn Capital. Cooperate or Compete What happens when legacy publishers and OER upstarts meet in the same room to talk about a buzzy phrase like the “Netflix of Higher Ed”? No silver linings here, either.

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 110

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The business of OER. ” And Buzzfeed reports that “Peter Thiel May Be Looking To Buy Gawker.com.”

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via The LA School Report : “ LAUSD approves $7.5 ” “ Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” “Students’ Rising Expectations Pose Challenge to Online Programs ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53