Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Recently I’ve been doing both more thinking and more roll-up-your-sleeves working on continuous improvement of OER. Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Continuous improvement is an iterative cycle. Beginning the cycle again.

OER 114

OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 114

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

Trends 202

Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 202

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). Pearson does not have a platform. .”

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

For example, there wasn’t an understanding in terms of tracking and measuring teacher performance against those standards; you needed to give a significant amount of time for it to bed down. Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”. to apply things to the real world.

Common Core 76

Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145