Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Keys to the OER shift: – Community buy-in: The community wasn’t satisfied with the achievement levels and graduation rates. – Vetted OER materials: For every subject, K-12 teachers have a stockbook of vetted OER lessons. This allows students to delve deeper into concepts and their individual interests.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

And it cost each student $100, a price they couldn’t avoid by purchasing a used copy, since the book was designed to be written in. “It But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too. They can with OER materials. It was out of date. It was not good at all,” Hardy says. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What if faculty of color were engaged in the process of creating books tailored to their classes? The funds will cover financial support and mentorship for faculty who create new open educational resources (OER for short) or adapt existing open textbooks. Like: What would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and?this

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OER Outcomes Course Social Media 146

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 14, 2016

In case you didn’t see it elsewhere, I’m republishing the press release from Achieving the Dream about the incredibly exciting OER Degrees work that launched today. The effort is intended to spark more rapid adoption of OER within higher education, beginning with community colleges. It’s really happening!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this second post you will discover how careful examination of the nouns in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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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. By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. As a result of this, publishers lose out on their income. A smart move indeed.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). Quick Notes.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 19, 2018

I’ve read some really interesting books this year. The books that are affecting me the most professionally are those that are giving me language and frameworks for making progress on ideas that have been stagnating in the back of my mind for a while. Just a word or two about each of these for now. Getting to causation.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

By adopting e-books in your school or district, you can expand learning opportunities. Some common 21st-century skills include critical thinking, creativity, digital literacy, technology literacy, information literacy and self-direction. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Our students use technology for learning, connecting with friends and entertainment. Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology. Digital law : Teaching learners about legal issues concerning technology and how it applies to them.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

ProfHacker

MAY 26, 2017

There are three (open access) books I’ve been meaning to read and review, but I realized if I waited until I finished them, it would take a while, so I thought it would be good to post a “preview” here, of why I hope to dip into these books over summer. Education and Technology: Critical Approaches.

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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. Books built out of little Lego blocks, glued together so the digital photo student could have their perfect book and the music student could have their perfect book.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

If I feel that one book will save my life this semester, I’ll break down and buy it,” she says. Gupta says she normally gets her reading materials from either Amazon or from a used book event at the end of the year, where students sell their books to students who’ll be taking the classes the next semester. I’m usually broke.”

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. described two undergraduates’ experiences with OER. Baby boomer faculty shared stories of the staggeringly cheap prices for their books, to the groans of younger folk.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. Check out my Booking Page. Past Series Articles.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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Libraries Digital Learning OER Learning 143

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. This finding is echoed in research conducted by Barnes & Noble College, which runs more than 1,400 physical and virtual campus book stores in the U.S.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. André is a #DigitalLeadLearner, using web media and iPads in the classroom, an OER maker and a founder of the German Twitter chat, #EDchatDE.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this third post you will discover how careful examination of the verbs in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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Blended Learning Technology OER Digital Citizenship 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. But in the past few years the company has suffered several setbacks—along with mounting criticism that its founding CEO, Jose Ferreira, overhyped its technology.

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 117

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Welcome to this third post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. In the first post I provided some reflection on major ideas to support technology and student centered learning. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. OER Commons.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

He even wrote a book about the topic, called “ Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia.” I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have done 100?s

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Study Classroom OER Education 166

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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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 122

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board. There is a surprisingly large portion of faculty who want a printed book on their desk to review before they make an adoption decision.” According to a study by U.S.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Welcome to a post that I feel is a must read when it comes to instructional technology in the classroom of the 21st century! In fact, in this article I integrate curriculum, PD, and technology together in a way that makes so much sense. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs.

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Meeting Technology Education STEM 60

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc. They do not have the technical expertise, the time, or the institutional support to engage meaningfully with OER. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. Eventually, I was able to find all but three of my 11 textbooks for my master’s degree in educational technology freely available on the library website, not to mention plenty of other materials (e.g., According to. University’s Role.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 12, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this particular post you will discover how careful examination of the standard is essential in proper technology integration. Check out my Booking Page.

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Technology STEM OER Conference 60

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. Students tackle lessons at their own pace as they work in groups to focus on concepts they find most challenging.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Welcome to this first in a series of posts devoted to student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1, or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. I have five powerful ideas on facilitating student centered learning with technology in this post.

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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. The chapter will be openly licensed and I’ll publish it here in full after it appears in the book. ” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine ).

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Resources OER Secondary Education 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. Check out my Booking Page. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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