21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Contains formative learning and assessment opportunities.

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

I said my piece in the updated article that spurred my original comment (including that the service the company in question provides looks “interesting and valuable,” especially in the context of the K-12 assessment market). The Pro-OER Elephant Test. Open is the New Green.

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OER Software Company Twitter 170

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 144

Digital Promise

MAY 17, 2017

These leaders came to Ohio for the League’s twelfth bi-annual League meeting ( #LISMentor ) in late April for an open conversation on improving student outcomes. The district is also a leader in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, championing teacher-created content and sharing resources widely.

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OER Outcomes Meeting Survey 164

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws. Pushes like the U.S.

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Representatives from our 12 new districts and 7 interim districts met at the fall 2018 League meeting in Park City, UT. Kim Smith, Executive Director of the League of Innovative Schools, visits the Academies of Loudoun, one of the school visit sites of the fall 2019 League of Innovative Schools meeting. 11 States Visited.

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Data Conference Assessment OER 168

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. There was never a meeting of the authors where we talked about our vision. colleges use at least one.

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Industry OER Course Company 107

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. Sounds familiar—like a prior learning assessment. Two that shine are OER/open books and learning analytics. OER and open books also help keep course materials more affordable for students. Whether a platform, an app, a portal, or a device—it’s all bits and bytes at the core. Learning analytics.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 92

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 56

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. Be explicit with districts about expectations for access to technology in schools and classrooms.

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Strategy EdTech Broadband E-rate 231

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. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. emphasis added).

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Data LMS Competency Based Learning OER 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

As a member of Alan’s Team all year, it is a lot of fun to meet so many people from around the world at his summer conference in Boston. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Please enjoy and share with others.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

G is for Grounded in Assessment: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks, Elements, & Compounds of Deeper Learning by Michael Gorman at [link]. The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stake holders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment.

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level. They support sound pedagogy and balanced assessment to help teachers understand and interpret student performance.

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Instructional Materials Resources OER Policies 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Community colleges are known for innovating to meet the challenges of educating some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students: low-income, first-generation, minority, and adult learners. Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson.

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Learning OER Software Course 60

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. The survey tool was created to assist executives and curriculum and technology directors in assessing their readiness for a greater transition to digital curriculum and content. Transition barriers. Curriculum coverage.

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Unfortunately, many of the tools available only meet a small portion of teachers’ needs or they are prohibitively expensive. The platform’s personalized dashboards give teachers a way to quickly and easily share everything from instructional resources and assignments to assessments with students and parents. “We

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LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 48

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 7, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. In the last few posts we discovers nouns that could uncover OER (Open Education Resources) and verbs that could lead to important digital tools that allow for process development. Past Series Articles.

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Blendspace Resources OER Technology 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education. Freeriders!

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

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.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Discover activities that meet you where you live, whether your “classroom” is an active volcano, the shark tank at the local aquarium, or your own kitchen table. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Fractus Learning

MAY 24, 2016

To do this, Lilly turned to the CK-12 Foundation to help develop a suite of Open Educational Resources (OER) that would help them meet the school’s budgetary and educational needs. So Lilly had to look for ways to cut down costs elsewhere.

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Digital Learning OER Laptops Learning 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2021

The conference will highlight the essential roles public libraries play in strengthening civic connections, advancing civic engagement in the communities they serve, and as go-to resources for building a culture of informed, engaged, and empowered residents.

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Libraries Conference OER Resources 36

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free?”, ”, and “If OER are free, why would anyone pay you?”

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OER Company Learning Analytics Outcomes 60

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Open Up Resources, a nonprofit that until recently was called the K-12 OER Collaborative, says it will offer openly licensed materials to school districts, and predicts it will achieve savings from what those systems would normally pay for commercial materials. . Assessing the Competitive Threat of Open Educational Resources.

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Groups OER Pearson Resources 40

Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Broadband 387

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

Desired outcome (explore, apply, assess)? #2: They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. The How-To Page recommends a five-step process for designing instruction: 1: Determine Objectives. Grade Level? Content Area(s)? Length of Lesson?

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Let’s take a look at their arguments and ways that school districts can use digital textbooks to meet learners’ needs. Affordable for school districts.

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Hapara OER Online Assessments Differentiated Instruction 130

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

T]he bigger concern with the way grades are addressed in the RISE framework is that they are plotting assessment scores instead of individual item scores. Actually, we’re using neither individual items nor the entire assessment score. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f

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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 93

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. It must be remembered that amplification will have an effect on great educational pedagogy, but will also do the same for instruction that may not meet the goal. Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles.

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Resources Technology Examples STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. OER Commons – Take a look at these results from a search I did for STEAM based activities. Over 40 STEAM Resources.

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STEM Resources OER Conference 207

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

In the following sections, I describe how the educational technology program will operate – including the roles for actors at the district, state, and federal levels – and my assessment of what the program says of the federal view of and role for technology in education. I may touch upon some or all of these in a future post.

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Policies Technology Education OER 258

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

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Adaptive Learning OER Learning Course 82