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It’s a Long Game After All

Iterating Toward Openness

OER advocacy, like most work, is filled alternately with advances and setbacks. For example, I’ve been co-writing OER textbooks with students since my Spring 2005 course Advanced Topics in Learning Object Design and Reuse, followed by Project Management for Instructional Designers , and then An Open Education Reader.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

Be creative about the many different types of interactive resources and experiences to which you link. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” You’ll find my list of CC0 choices here. Embed your slide everywhere students, teachers and parents might discover it. by EZ EdTech! Chapter in Mary K. Chelton and Colleen Cool. Valenza, J.K.

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Tolerating failing schools in New Orleans — so long as they’re for black kids

The Hechinger Report

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. And failure is trending. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Equal opportunity goes in all directions.

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‘The Truth Is, I Love the Work’

Edsurge

The workforce, which is predominantly made up of women, many of them Black and Latina, often receives little to no compensation and has minimal access to resources to support their work. What difference might it make if these child care providers had access to support networks, training and financial resources? Martinez agreed.

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From Static to Interactive and From Open to Free: Consequences Both Intended and Unintended

Iterating Toward Openness

Quoting from the article: The main aims of this research were to examine the effect of OER use among higher education students and to analyze teacher and student views on OER use in order to better understand how these resources are used and valued. Scheines, Leinhardt, Smith, Cho, (2005).

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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

The Hechinger Report

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” found a report from the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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Newark Board of Ed, Prudential Financial, and Discovery Education Launch Partnership Supporting Academic Achievement

eSchool News

The Newark Board of Education (NBOE) has joined forces with Prudential Financial , Schools That Can , and Discovery Education to create an innovative public-private partnership that supports student academic achievement and builds confidence in math skills through a unique suite of dynamic digital resources. About Prudential.