EdTech4Beginners
MARCH 7, 2018
Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Open Education Resources (OER).
Edsurge
AUGUST 5, 2017
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside are currently looking into this, and developing a polymeric material that could enable smartphone screens to repair themselves. Most importantly, OER need to be compatible with both the campus LMS and as independent resources that can be shared through a mobile message.
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Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 12, 2015
What should, in the 21st century, be a completely frictionless and painless activity – owning a copy of your required educational materials – has instead become an arms race between billion-dollar multinational corporations and smartphone-wielding teenagers. See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.).
eSchool News
MARCH 24, 2015
Early afternoon at the California State University, Sacramento, student union, and noses are buried in screens big and small – laptops, tablets and smartphones, all glowing and demanding attention. Not a book, as in the actual physical object, to be found among the studying horde. Next page: Researchers look at millenials and print materials.
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.
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 13, 2019
Or smartphones? But – particularly when it comes to OER – we aren’t. Back in 2012 I wrote: You have to admit that some of the things the publishers are working on are both cooler and better than almost everything that currently exists in the OER space. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER.
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