Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 89

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar.

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OER Edmodo E-rate Libraries 40

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Digitally Mature Leaders .

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. What’s In This Year’s Edition The Horizon Report aims to identify themes and challenges in higher education and technology, and predict which trends may materialize in the near future.

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Report OER Trends Industry 66

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. LMSes will remain central to campus technology in my time frame.

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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. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures.

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. The technology is a driving force for the consultation industry wherein they specialize in training and staffing. Open Education Resources (OER). Interactive Audio-Video Learning.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

The director of EDUCAUSE ELI describes six major trends (he calls them “trajectories”) for technology and education. ” I’d recommend this as a reading for campus leaders, especially those not connected to information services and technology. Read what follows carefully.

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Technology LMS OER Learning Analytics 40

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

June 17, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) announced that Dr. Karen Richardson, Executive Director, Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Candice Dodson Influencer Award (CDIA).

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Advocacy OER Trends Conference 52

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. There was some hesitation because if you’re not comfortable using technology, it’s like ‘How do I use a new curriculum and new technology?’ Corrine Williams. says Williams. “We

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Technology can often seem like an afterthought, but if used wisely from the start, some edtech tools and resources can be a big help to a teacher who's just starting out. OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Professional learning KQED Education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

What will be the most important technological development in higher education in 2018? Terah Crews: Active-learning classroom technology. I predict we will see a marginal increase from last year, continuing a trend that is likely to spike in the next three to five years.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. However, most people remain unaware of OER. ” Answer: one should not start with technology, but with a psychological framework for learning.

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

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. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures.

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The product has reached the end of its product life cycle and simply cannot compete with new learning technology products on the market.”. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. percent and negative 1.1 percent, respectively. One headwind specific to the U.S. Since the U.S. billion in 2016.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A minority are interested, but the majority prefer traditional (print) materials, with powerful implications for the intersection of technology and higher education. Consequently, many of the students who might benefit most from lower-cost digital and OER course materials are not able to do so.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Great teachers already do that everyday—with or without technology. Yet there is clearly a gap between how educators and entrepreneurs perceive “personalized learning” and many other technology-infused terms in education. Kids see enough technology in their day without adding to it at school. Source: Quartz. This is a mistake.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Wrangling technology can be maddening even in optimally designed classrooms. When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. Is the technology easy to use? That was the seller for me. It's been such a timesaver.

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Tools How To Classroom OER 126

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I have a chapter about open educational resources that will be appearing in a book on trends and issues in instructional design and technology later this year. Copyright law places artificial limits on our ability to use technology to share digital educational materials.

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Resources OER Secondary Education 60

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

But rather than adapting their business models to the new truth of their product, publishers have invested significantly in technologies that attempt to make educational materials artificially scarce. These technologies cripple the Internet’s inherent ability to support the instantaneous and free copying and redistribution of content.

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OER Software Outcomes Smartphone 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. They’re amazing.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. Under “Long-Term Trends for Driving Ed Tech adoption in higher education for five or more years” were “Advancing Cultures of Innovation” and “Cross-Institution & Cross-Sector Collaboration.”

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Report Trends Robotics OER 46

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. Tagged on: August 18, 2017 Is classroom technology good for learning or wasting time? Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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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. It’s rare that you have the ability to to take consumer technology and offer it to schools,” he said. We caught a few tidbits—take a look below.

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 112

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. Under “Long-Term Trends for Driving Ed Tech adoption in higher education for five or more years” were “Advancing Cultures of Innovation” and “Cross-Institution & Cross-Sector Collaboration.”

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Report Trends Robotics OER 40

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Many quiet signs of OER. Not all the way, but watch this trend. Overall mood EDUCAUSE 2015 wasn’t very buzzy about new technologies. I don’t know, honestly, if this group is isolated from some political and cultural trends, or just focused very practically in what I saw. Who was there?

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OER Gamification Conference Trends 40

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Librarians might create grade- and curricular-relevant folders of highly engaging content, perhaps OER. Spotlight Cards track interesting data as students complete assignments. Imagine the power of using Reading Progress with already strong readers to push their fluency even further with more challenging texts.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! Technological Darwinism. it’s an interesting trend.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. INQ101x: Teaching With Technology and Inquiry: An Open Course For Teachers. Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom. Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success. Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

Created to assist executives and curriculum and technology directors in guiding the transition to digital curriculum and content, the survey also offers schools the chance win national awards. OER versus paying for fully complete publisher products. . • OER versus paying for fully complete publisher products.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Materials can be printed or can be digital; they may include textbooks, technology-based materials or other educational media. To that end, we have created an OER library of reviewed materials to help support districts. We have a new landscape in our state. And all could carry different licenses, from open to all rights reserved.

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Instructional Materials Report OER Policies 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. patents.

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