The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2015

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Libraries Digital Citizenship Future Ready Conference 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

The accelerator is a partnership formed in 2015 between Pasadena, CA-based nonprofit Michelson 20MM Foundation and San Francisco incubator Runway. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). Educators can customize courses and monitor student progress.

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OER Company Outcomes Adaptive Learning 60

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

schools in the third quarter of 2015 were Chromebooks. Curriculum Foundry also provides districts with a searchable repository of high-quality, vetted and tagged open educational resources (OER) and other free digital resources. Students can launch the content directly from Google Drive or Google Classroom.

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Google OER Chromebook Education 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Next Generation Courseware Challenge project in fall 2014, and began implementing Smart Sparrow ’s BioBeyond technology in spring 2015. We also replaced the $150 textbook we were using with open education resources (OER). In addition, our libraries operate a laptop loan program that allows students to “check out” computers.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Be on the lookout for future posts entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Ray Henderson (@readmeray) October 14, 2015. When students who can’t afford their textbooks have to borrow them from friends or check them out from the library, they’re likely receiving an insufficient dose or duration of use. I believe we’re seeing this same effect across OER adoptions, and have labeled it the Remix Hypothesis.

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Pearson OER Comparison Case Study 60

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

Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. The students at Algonquin Regional High School helped their local towns with tech support nights at local libraries. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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OER EdTech Learning iPad 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). A 2015 regulation by the U.S. If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 113

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

And in 2015, the Obama administration tapped LeBlanc to advise Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell on competency-based education. You get into things like bundling, you think about OER and alternatives to expensive content. . earlier this month. It’s going to be great, actually. What happens if we could reverse that?

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Competency Based Learning OER Assessment Company 86

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Libraries and Librarians ? Open Source and OER ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic!

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 9, “Institutional Envy.” The other half is about two campuses doing innovative work.

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Education Exercises STEM Groups 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.” ” “Whither Moodle ?

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. weeks in 2015.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

From 2007 to 2015, total outstanding federal student loan debt doubled from $516 billion to $1.2 There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. TES Education, a British digital education company, says that it found teachers use OER more than they use textbooks. of courses use OER.

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Via Education Week : “ Special Education Enrollment Rose in 2015–16.” ” Via The Christian Science Monitor : “Why Cal State L.A.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40