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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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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. Microsoft 1) provided over 3 million students with free access to Office 365 in K-12 schools across the U.S.,

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Forgetting Our History: From the Reusability Paradox to the Remix Hypothesis

Iterating Toward Openness

Audrey’s constant refrain that “no one seems to remember our history” was made for her again this week when McGraw-Hill and Microsoft announced a new project based around – I kid you not – learning objects. Which brings me back to the announcement of the McGraw Hill – Microsoft partnership.

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Reducing Friction in OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

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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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. It’s a partnership with Microsoft. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Via Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. ” In other Microsoft/Minecraft news , the company will donate $10,000 to the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics to build a Minecraft Lab at a local school. ” Upgrades and Downgrades. ” asks Education Dive.