Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, and it will surprise no one that this is the first item on my list, is the definition. Regardless of what other individuals, institutions, or organizations may think or say, UNESCO is the creator of the term “open educational resources” and, as its creator, UNESCO’s definition of OER is the canonical definition.

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OER Advocacy Resources Accessibility 127

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 66

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Why would arguably one of the most innovative (and definitely the richest) technology tycoon of the 21st century support a low-tech pedagogy that has barely changed in more than a hundred years? But also, please use your brilliance to help modernize Montessori (in the appropriate ways) and make this great pedagogy more accessible to all.

Advocacy 136

Advocacy Competency Based Learning Training Robotics 136

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

It relies on a definition of personalized learning developed in 2014 by educators from 16 schools and representatives of a number of nonprofit and advocacy organizations.

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Personalized Learning Advocacy Learning Professional Learning 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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Libraries Advocacy Accessibility Groups 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Conditions of being short-staffed and overworked, of doing more with less, of managing personal difficulties, and then facing challenges related both to access to information and to polarization--these can really get to be too much for librarians. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins. or in Niche Academy).

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Libraries Advocacy Strategy Accessibility 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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Advocacy Data Trends Report 138

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 13, 2024

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Libraries Strategy Advocacy Accessibility 45

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

With the movement for no-tuition community college gaining momentum in more states and earning top billing in President Biden’s education agenda , experts in college access and affordability advise caution about using that potent four-letter word: f-r-e-e. Don’t just think about access and enrollment,” Jackson says.

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E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 135

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It has also forced school leaders to become more creative, outspoken and innovative in their advocacy and leadership—lessons they will take with them to help drive change in 2021. Moving Forward There are definitely some initiatives from 2020 we need to continue to move forward.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2024

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Libraries Advocacy Accessibility Strategy 41

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. call this “the access hypothesis.”

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 182

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

With access to programs designed to help them transition beyond high school, more neurodivergent students will have the skills they need to succeed when they get there, Elliot said. In part that’s because definitions of neurodivergence vary.

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Report Training System Accessibility 133

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Related: While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own That incipient definition characterized a lot of early thinking about dyslexia. was creating its own special education categories and definitions to prepare for the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975.

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Learning Study Report Elementary 144

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 10, 2020

I posted the first installment yesterday, explaining how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. Affordability seems to have become the end goal of OER advocacy, instead of being an important step on the path to improving student learning.

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OER Advocacy Course Report 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

A study by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the women’s advocacy organization Lean In finds that even as they are more likely than men to finish college, women in corporate roles are less likely to be promoted from entry-level jobs to management positions.

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Company Report Study Advocacy 128

The Jose Vilson

MAY 3, 2020

Contrary to my own public activism and advocacy, I propose that we move the nation’s largest public school system into a completely online endeavor forever and a day. We won’t even need to mettle in emotions and bonds because the only relationship we need is between ourselves and Wi-Fi access, no matter how unevenly distributed.

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Advocacy Social Media Microsoft Company 195

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Self Advocacy and Resources for Students. Teachers can access audio texts from no-cost resources like Bookshare.org and Learning Ally.org to help impacted students keep growing in those three areas. Additionally, many people believe that all individuals with dyslexia see letters or words backward.

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Advocacy STEM Resources System 130

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

Yet the mistakes have been numerous and serious enough that high school counselors and advocates for college access now fear that promising students from the Class of 2024 will end up not going to college at all. If not enrollment, then definitely matriculation,” she added. At times they can sound like a retro gaming cheat code.

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Data Advocacy Report System 57

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2020

The nation has 539 colleges and universities that meet the federal definition of a Hispanic-serving institution, or HSI, and most Latino college students attend an HIS, according to Excelencia in Education. Some HBCU advocacy organizations have launched emergency funds to help the institutions and the students they serve.

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Policies Advocacy Report Data 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

A recent study of the Memphis Nurse-Family Partnership program by economist James Heckman found that access to one-on-one help from a nurse provides many benefits to mothers and babies, including higher birth weights for boys, better socio-emotional skills for girls, and more positive parenting attitudes.

Outcomes 78

Outcomes Advocacy Training Accessibility 78

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Yasmina Vinci, the executive director of the National Head Start Association, an advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start explains that Head Start’s mission has always been to “to give everyone in the family an education mindset.” To do that, Head Start programs works with families as much as children.

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Education Training Advocacy Classroom 167

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Said Trejo: “It’s definitely more welcoming among the newer generation.”. Meanwhile, nearly 88 percent of construction employees are white. We are seeing an increase in interest,” said Meg Vasey, a former electrician who runs Tradeswomen Inc.,

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Training Groups Industry Advocacy 115

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Tom: You know, I think one of the best ways in 2017 is to meet new people, and to really have good access to quality of text in front of us… is Twitter. It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. And what kind of books do we pour into our mind to help us stay motivated to do this job?

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How To Twitter Moodle Elementary 276

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Tom: You know, I think one of the best ways in 2017 is to meet new people, and to really have good access to quality of text in front of us… is Twitter. It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. And what kind of books do we pour into our mind to help us stay motivated to do this job?

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Twitter Company Elementary Advocacy 307

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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Advocacy Policies Conference Data 152

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

1. Access to challenging curriculum and instruction. Let us be clear about our definition of rigor. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. Needs of Students. 2. High-quality teachers. 3. High expectations. 4. Extra support.

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Strategy Differentiated Instruction Elementary Advocacy 168

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

It definitely made for a pretty horrible year and a half,” Smith said about the impact of a policy he called “both stupid and shortsighted.” And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s. He’s already toying with a name: Free the Grades. “I I feel like I won, but then there are 6.6

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Policies Advocacy Course Report 116

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

According to the CoSN report, the standard definition of hurdles is a roadblock that forces schools to slow down, prepare themselves, and then make the leap. Echoed by all four presenters, Dr. Schuler described how his district outfitted parking lots with internet and WiFi for students who could not access WiFi at home.

Learning 98

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In at least four states, five tribal nations themselves are the lessees — paying the state for access to, collectively, more than 57,700 acres of land within their own reservation borders. There’s definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands.” It goes back to, really, the founding of the U.S.,”

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Policies Resources Data Accessibility 69

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

It takes the average student at a four-year university nearly five years to graduate, the advocacy group Complete College America reports , and the typical bachelor’s degree recipient takes and pays for an average of 15 credits — an entire semester’s worth — more than was required. We definitely have people say, ‘Just tell me.

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Survey Study Report Advocacy 143

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?” ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more. Stephen’s goal is access for all. To me, access for all is a waypoint and not the end point.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

…the true benefit of the academy is the interaction, the access to the debate, to the negotiation of knowledge — not to the stale cataloging of content. When we look at common definitions of Open Educational Resources or OERs (e.g., Slideshare available here. – Dave Cormier and George Siemens.

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OER MOOC Conference Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

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Advocacy Data Groups Report 106

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Deb : Definitely. Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? Lance, Keith Curry and Debra E.

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Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Such claims have caught the attention of consumer-protection advocacy groups like the Student Borrower Protection Center, which has found marketing language that it contends is deceptive and predatory. From our interviews, students definitely conceptualize this as a type of debt or loan. Is it a loan? Something else?

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Comparison Study Data Advocacy 203

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others. Because, while we know that education remains our greatest lever for social and economic mobility, we still grapple with challenges of access and equity.

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Education Khan Academy Facebook Advocacy 102