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Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptivelearning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Here is a little bit that Josh Bersin shared in an article titled Digital Leadership is Not an Optional Part of Being a CEO : Culture is key.
But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.
For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.
It’s a very impressive article, packing a lot of insight into a short space. Malcolm Brown begins with three major drivers: personalization, hybrid learning, and big data.
The companies will provide users of McGraw-Hill Education’s Engrade, a learning management and assessment platform for K-12 education, access to the Knovation Content Collection with more than 360,000 online learning resources, including videos, white papers, games, podcasts and articles using a single integrated search.
When you click on an app in the database, you will be taken to an information page that includes an overview, resource videos and tutorials, related articles, free or paid, device requirements, as well as integrations, like Google Classroom. They receive instant feedback and a chance to revise their work for ongoing learning.
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.” “ Thomas Pogge , one of the world’s most prominent ethicists, stands accused of manipulating students to gain sexual advantage,” says Buzzfeed in an article about allegations – an “open secret” apparently – about the Yale professor. ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).
I’m not sure what this means as the article talks about both “authenticity” (whatever that is) and the gender of instructors on various MOOC platforms. ” Stanford University’s Larry Cuban on “ Proof Points: Selling and Marketing ‘ Blended Learning ’ to Educators and Parents.”
Educause has published an article about “ The Mastery Transcript Consortium ,” a group of independent schools that are “reinventing” the college transcript. (I’m ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using AdaptiveLearning Begins with Proper Alignment.”
More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. The adaptivelearning company has raised $4.57 “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. .” From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year.
” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). The NAACP endorses OER. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptivelearning software a school is using. ” Oh. Yik Yak has raised $73.5
” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Adeptemy , an adaptivelearning company, has raised $3.48 Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company has raised $8.5
The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. National) Education Politics. ” Don’t worry. Her nine other yachts were unharmed.
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