Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 90

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 27, 2011

Join me Tuesday, August 30th, at an earlier-than-normal time for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Richard and Rebecca DuFour on using Professional Learning Communities to improve schools. Attend this session to learn about advocacy tips for school librarians.

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Blackboard Moodle ePortfolio Advocacy 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain! Raise $146.1 ” Investors seem to love that. .”

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Education MOOC Report Facebook 66

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 57

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times.

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 55

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). AltSchool is another Silicon Valley company working on a “personalized learning platform.” A belief in technological utopia.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 66