eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

It is the first curriculum made openly available by Open Up Resources, which was founded to develop new high-quality alternatives to curricula offered by traditional publishers, and to increase equity in education by distributing these materials freely, as OER.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. This was justified by the fact that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support expanding the use of OER. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). Tory Patterson, co-founder of Owl Ventures As far as calling itself an OER platform, that is somewhat correct.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Under Brian Kibby, who took over as Knewton’s CEO after Jose Ferreira stepped down in December 2016, the company attempted to remake itself with a new business: selling digital courseware directly to higher-ed institutions and students. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 14, 2016

In case you didn’t see it elsewhere, I’m republishing the press release from Achieving the Dream about the incredibly exciting OER Degrees work that launched today. The effort is intended to spark more rapid adoption of OER within higher education, beginning with community colleges. It’s really happening!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

It’s been a good year for open educational resources (OER). made commitments this year to establish entire degree programs based solely on OER. Governor Jerry Brown set aside $5 million for OER degree programs in California community colleges. But “free” is not the only important characteristic of OER.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. Leveled readings —Each of the articles in the course is provided at multiple reading levels to ensure that all students can access and understand the material, enabling them to participate in the class. Source: BHP. Full size image here.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. Therefore, I had the simple mission of writing an openly-licensed textbook that not only addressed my students’ learning needs, but would be accessible to anyone.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Inspire was launched with great fanfare in 2016, touted as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other open education resources. Peters says that some states ended up deciding to pick other platforms, like OER Commons , in their efforts to organize and review open materials created or used by their teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So This project will happen this semester as teachers develop and share best practices for collaborative app development.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

That official Facebook page for Amazon Education hasn’t been updated since June 30, 2016. Though users can give each item a star rating, the vast majority of resources in the collection have no ratings, since only a limited audience has access to the beta site.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

She first discovered Open Up Resources in 2016 and rolled out its K-8 English curriculum for the 215 students at her school in the fall of the following year. She’s enthusiastic about accessing Open Up Resources’ materials on the Kiddom platform. “By Both executives said more specific pricing will be finalized in 2020.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. What is the Mathematical Association of America and what K12 resources can I access? These are accessible, findable online. What makes Expii unique? Follow the hashtag to learn more. 00:06:00].

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. Since the U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2017

Offering a familiar, filtered Amazon search/shopping interface, Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER). Amazon retreated into a private beta only available to those with a special access code. (I Symbaloo on OER Resources. Why the delay? I could not get a code.:-().

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Esri has granted 200,000 students access to its professional online GIS mapping software for doing projects. Microsoft 1) provided over 3 million students with free access to Office 365 in K-12 schools across the U.S., And to provide more digital content beyond OERs, the government launched the Open eBooks app back in February 2016.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

We’re focusing on higher-ed access and completion and transition into the workforce,” says Michelson 20MM Foundation President Phil Kim. “We Around 200 companies applied for the five spots in the 2016 cohort. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I am almost booked through January and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Highlights: Accessible through tools after search, Provides critical thinking/inquiry. Check out my Booking Page. PBS Learning Media.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. The other spoke of access, public financing, inequalities.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Where does open education stand in 2016? He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 2, 2016

Where does open education stand in 2016? He also identified several key themes: Structuring open education through linked data to resources, which could yield real time feedback and better linkage to OER. The mood was positive, especially as OER adoption seems to be rising, reaching <>15% of adoption in some cases.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

CUNY 2016 Student Experience Survey , 21 percent of the system’s community college students were not able to take required courses, most citing “lack of seat availability” as the reason. However, the tool has some permission restrictions making it difficult for students to access and use—something Otte says he hopes to change soon.

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SETDA Says

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Through the continued leadership of the Board of Directors and the dedication of our members and staff, during 2016 SETDA celebrated 15 years of. read more.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. A Workforce Shift to Alternative Credentials : There’s a lot of buzz around “alternative credentials” these days.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in December 2016 and is re-posted here with permission. __ What was hot in educational technology in 2016 and what are some cool new things that are on the horizon for 2017? CHROMEBOOKS The Chromebook finally came of age in 2016.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. ▪Textbooks and OER. ▪Access Experts and Develop Skills. Check out my Booking Page … Dates are going fast, with time up to and including December just about filled, and I am taking 2016 dates.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

April 29, 2016. We provide access. These new collections support new literacies and leverage the new bounty of open educational resources (OER) supported by the White House’s #GoOpen initiative, as well as streamed media, and software for creating and sharing powerful, effectively, ethically produced digital stories.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 3, 2018

You can also refer back to previous annotated articles at the Educator Innovator blog to access additional resources and connect conversations in this series. This month, we explore ways educators can support youth to become, not only college and career ready, but citizen ready as well. Steve Zemelman’s Civic Action in Schools blog.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 3, 2018

The is the introductory chapter to Steven Zemelman’s From Inquiry to Action: Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning in All Content Areas (2016), which outlines practical steps for preparing students for civic engagement via research, argument, speaking and listening, engaged reading, writing for real audiences and purposes, and collaboration.

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