Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

T]he bigger concern with the way grades are addressed in the RISE framework is that they are plotting assessment scores instead of individual item scores. Actually, we’re using neither individual items nor the entire assessment score. Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f

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OER Outcomes Assessment Analysis 100

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. frequent formative assessment opportunities) can appear in educational resources with any copyright license.

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 113

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

Our EROI journey began with a specialist in assessing ROI, Glimpse K12. With hundreds of software programs, OER resources, strategies, and programs permeating our curriculum, making sense of ‘what’s working for our students’ had blossomed into an administrative quandary. Taking control of the ‘why’.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 103

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Some professors have aesthetic objections to OER materials. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Because most U.S.

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Industry OER Course Company 117

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 19, 2015

For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. providing the learner with a unique set of learning experiences based on the system’s analysis of the student model. Our thinking about personalization started here.

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OER Assessment Google System 60

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

It includes assessment to inform personalization of instruction and is equipped for adoption across a range of institutional types and learning environments.”. The most structured option is offered directly from a vendor platform; it includes all course content and assessments.

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OER Assessment LMS Analysis 83

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at OECD, warns that this analysis “should not be used as an ‘excuse’ not to use technology, but as a spur to finding a more effective approach”. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In school hallways across the country, it’s not uncommon to see children sitting with adults who are there to assess their reading fluency and growth stopwatch in hand. Submitted student recordings are available anytime as a running record for teacher assessment. In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , “Digital Curriculum Development: The Missing Time-Saving Link,” Daniel Ralyea, Director of the Office of Research and Data Analysis at the South Carolina Department of Education, and Mark T. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 54

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Thirty percent of the company’s revenues come from assessments of one kind or another, which includes professional certification and apprenticeship programs, as well as summative exams. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. While students use traditional literary critique, a word cloud might provide a new analysis, such as a visual look at word frequency in a reading. Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles.

Technology 60

Technology Resources Examples Blended Learning 60

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. The company has raised some $77.5 It’s now an LMS too.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.”

Education 47

Education Robotics OER MOOC 47

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. Educator’s Assessment Data Management System ( EADMS ) is merging with IO Education. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. .” The professor in question: Richard Aslin at the University of Rochester. ” asks Bryan Alexander.

Education 53

Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “In Her Words: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Assesses a Year on the Job.” Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” Department of Education – Office of Government Ethics – DeVos.”

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

schools in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis, but few have shown any indication that they’ll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group following last month’s massacre at a Florida high school.” Edsurge on the business of OER. Edsurge on mindfulness in public schools.

Education 47

Education Kaplan MOOC Coursera 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Derek Newton argued in The Atlantic that Staton’s (and by extension Carey’s) analysis misconstrued what most parents and students want from schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145