Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There is a growing consensus among those who work in open education – including organizations like BC Campus , Creative Commons , the Hewlett Foundation , Lumen Learning , OpenStax , the Open Textbook Network , Rebus , and others – that the Creative Commons Attribution (BY) License is our preferred license.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

That makes the donations ‘nice to have’—but sadly limits the impact that they have on students and learning.” Autodesk provided more than 335,000 students and educators from secondary schools with professional software and services for use in classrooms, labs, and at home. Take Adobe , for example.

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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. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Now, make no mistake – OER is a means, not an end.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While everyone wants educational materials to be less expensive, lower costs are the least interesting thing about digital, networked learning. And obviously, both inclusive access and OER are about solving the cost problem. Keeping the conversation laser-focused on cost is the core of their defensive strategy with regard to OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students? How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students? ” The article poses three questions and answers them.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Pinellas County, for example, has a blended model working towards 1-to-1. Select schools in Orange County are part of LaunchED, an immersive, connected, and collaborative learning experience providing students with access to world-class digital tools and resources. About the Host. Join the Community.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. But participants were very, very engaged from the start.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” And I want to do it worldwide… Personally, my goal is not to provide less expensive access to the same teaching and learning experience to more people – access and affordability have never been my end game.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Stephen has posted Four Conclusions on OERs he has drawn from our conversation. One of the things I’ve learned through this discussion is that some might benefit from the inclusion of a brief disclaimer somewhere on my writing. Let me start with “the goal” of the OER movement. ” Our advocacy.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 15, 2015

It should be absolutely mandatory reading for every student in a graduate program on educational technology or learning sciences, period. Learning objects are meant to be aggregated into a wide range of larger instructional structures. For example, take teaching materials about the Ruby programming language.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. Utah’s Process and Reviews. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. This is still a very real risk for OER. ” you might ask.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

A Pearson business motto is “content plus assessment, powered by technology, equalizes effective learning at scale,” Fallon said, and after years of striving for that goal, “we only feel that it’s really now starting to come together.”. Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Docente infantil y primaria Stories from the Earth: teaching about changing landscapes using 28 years of satellite observations - Peder Nelson, MS Creating equitable STEM learning opportunities for K-12 girls - Brenda Britsch, Co-Principal Investigator Maps, Math, and Media: Innovative Transdisciplinary Projects in Teacher Education - Melda N.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. I spent most of my thinking time last week wondering about obstacles in the way of the ubiquitous adoption of OER in US higher education and how we might overcome them.

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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). Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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