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At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. Below I present the results of some exploratory data analysis intended to answer basic questions. The overall average price for all OER (both OER Only and OER Hybrid) is $17.32. OER Hybrid.
It also helps schools reach goals like higher student success, better data analysis, more robust cybersecurity and easier access to education technology, the report’s authors explain. Utah teachers are now not only able to keep tabs on how students develop, but they can better develop personalizedlearning initiatives.
Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. This use case is the perfect example of when OER can come to the rescue. So what does that mean? What is differentiation? Addressing reading levels.
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. professors enjoy academic freedom to select their own course materials, it can take a lot of personal persuasion to convince each to try teaching a new text.
We hosted 20 League districts at the ASU GSV conference (thanks to the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), ISTE, CoSN, iNACOL, SXSW EDU, SIIA, NGLC, Remake Learning, JEX, and the EdElements PersonalizedLearning Summit. Principles for Building a Learning Ecosystem—Lessons Learned from Tucson, Arizona.
(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. Tagged on: August 16, 2017 You Need Data to PersonalizeLearning | Data Quality Campaign → They need data to personalizelearning. Not all of these things can be true.
Fallon official pointed a response by the company that argued that the EdReports analysis was flawed, and he said Pearson’s overall record in aligning its materials to the common core is “very good,” overall. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. Ultimately, it has to be paid for somewhere in the system.
I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalizedlearning.” ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)
” 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. “ Does tech designed to personalizelearning actually benefit students? Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “First Ed-Tech Trade Mission by U.S.
” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalizedlearning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original PersonalizedLearning. ” That is the Sophie B. Wright Charter School in New Orleans.
“Can Venture Capital Put PersonalizedLearning Within Reach of All Students?” It’s so revealing how this is framed – the problem with “personalizedlearning” up ’til now? More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. ” Hell no.
.” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in PersonalizedLearning.” ” Tom Vander Ark lists “ 15 Dimensions of PersonalizedLearning.”
Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” ” “What’s So Different About High Tech High Anyway?”
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. Memos from HR.
Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalizedlearning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via CNBC : “This Chinese-Israeli start-up wants to change the way kids learn to code.”
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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