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The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptivelearning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.
Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”. It’s much harder to see that if we go back to the world of paper and pencil, bubble tests….they’re they’re not fit for what we need to prepare young people….to to apply things to the real world. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.
And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. Moving to a digital-first update model will save Pearson on printing, packaging and other costs associated with making physical textbooks.
Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptivelearning” products, for example. (It ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.
Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”) “Harvard Finds That DreamBox Learning Improves Math Test Scores,” according to Edsurge.
The NAACP endorses OER. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” ” Oh. Increased by just 2, but still.).
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptivelearning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.
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