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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

We created a list of the best tools for flipped classrooms for K-12 grades, including screen recording tools, tools, interactive whiteboard educational apps, software to create interactive lessons and videos, apps for communicating, creating a PowerPoint presentation, and ready-to-use video content resources. Classroom Video Software.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Some of the value-added services offered in conjunction with open source software or OER add very little – if any – value.

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KITABOO facilitates key LMS integrations with advanced technological features

Kitaboo on EdTech

KITABOO, the world’s leading digital publishing, and content delivery platform offers seamless integration with the popular LMSs such as Moodle, Schoology, Sakai, etc, and any LMS that supports LTI 1.1 Open-source implies that you can run, share, study and modify the software to your unique needs, with the appropriate attributions.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. For us, this has been classic open source work as characterized by Eric Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar – “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Sakai Is Probably Healthier Than You Think,” Michael Feldstein suggests. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Knowing how often college students log onto learning management software is one of the best ways to predict whether they will stick with their studies or drop out.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” UC Davis suffered a week-long LMS outage , and lots of folks had to weigh in with their thoughts on what this meant about Sakai , running one’s own infrastructure , and open source. ” “ Software for Stopping Freedom.” Via Edutechnica : “ Sakai by the Numbers.” “Try marketing.”