Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

“[One] tenth (11 percent) were using OER materials and 4 percent were currently using OER in their classes and also making their own course materials available as OER.” ”, the leading answer was finding stuff with the right quality. ” Think about that.

OER 40

OER Study Survey Education 40

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Frayer Model asks students to take a vocabulary word, define it, provide examples, use in a sentence, and provide synonyms and antonyms. The platform gives teachers and administrators the flexibility to mix and match content from a growing number of open educational resources (OER), to digitize existing content, or to build their own.

Chromebook 78

Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

For example, students may work on a topic more traditionally aligned with the lab in an adaptive lesson, allowing class time to be spent on components of the same topic more likely to be covered in a lecture. We also replaced the $150 textbook we were using with open education resources (OER). What about challenges?

Learning 60

Learning OER Software Course 60

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

For example, there wasn’t an understanding in terms of tracking and measuring teacher performance against those standards; you needed to give a significant amount of time for it to bed down. Many districts have embraced open educational resources—free materials created on licenses that allow their distribution, re-use, and repurposing.

Common Core 76

Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

I’ve used Horizon as an example of the Delphi forecasting method in my scholarship and workshops about futures work. ” OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). I’ve been on the expert panel for nearly a decade, and chaired it once. Agreed on the former.

Report 46

Report Trends Robotics OER 46

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

I’ve used Horizon as an example of the Delphi forecasting method in my scholarship and workshops about futures work. ” OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). I’ve been on the expert panel for nearly a decade, and chaired it once. Agreed on the former.

Report 40

Report Trends Robotics OER 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. Pearson does not have a platform. .”

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. The adaptive learning 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. ” Oh.

Coursera 61

Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

This is a good example of why we should be more critical when we hear about schools that boast everyone was admitted to college – at what cost? His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Adaptive Learning Products Gain Ground in K–12, Market Survey Finds.”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46