Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

When students who can’t afford their textbooks have to borrow them from friends or check them out from the library, they’re likely receiving an insufficient dose or duration of use. When students without friends in class or time to get to the library try to get by without using textbooks at all, they’re receiving no dose whatsoever.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Past Series Articles. Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The point of emphasis for this article is item number three below. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites). Let’s take a look! Identify the standard. Reflect on the standard.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. The students at Algonquin Regional High School helped their local towns with tech support nights at local libraries. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July. I have three pre-conference workshops that you may want to register for.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. case studies and articles I had purchased over the years).

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The CommonLit library of more than 440 readings may be browsed or searched by keyword and filtered by such criteria as: recent additions, Lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device demonstrated, and Common Core Reading: Literature standards. All the instructional resources are created by teachers for teachers. Registration is free.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. You will also find articles aimed at older students. Each is a complete project that you may wish to include.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Frontiers Science For Kid s – Not only are these articles for kids… they are written by kids. NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resources that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations. Best of all the same article can be transformed by grade level or lexile.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We're excited to announce our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We're excited to be holding our third Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Sustainability in Libraries ," online (and for free) this Wednesday, October 14th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article. You then create a clipboard to organize what you have clipped and then you can share the clipboards with students, colleagues, the public or just keep it for yourself. link] [link] [link] [link] [link]. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We hope you'll consider joining our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). (We Please also join the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Past… Beyond the Shine Series Articles. Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. The teacher has worked hard at finding articles, reading lists, research links, and even You Tube videos on a various topics. According to Dr. Ruben R.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), Things to consider: provide a safe environment for your “play area” in the library. Incorporating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Libraries.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

I wanted to ask you about OERs. In terms of open access [journals] like [Public Library of Science]… they're leading edge. But its long-term trajectory is really obvious because we have such a broadly-indexed set of [articles at the pre-publication stages]. You have these state institutions that are really spread out.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. They still have more they could explore, search, etc. through this database. At least these links get them in and interested in using this source.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

Students can now have an entire library in their backpack, and this changes the dynamic for schools and students. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. This broadcast was hosted by edWeb.net , SETDA , and Future Ready Schools , and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. For more information. But wait, there’s more!

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” 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. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This isn’t a “meanwhile on campus story,” but I’m not sure where else to put articles about sexual harassment and sexual assault. The business of OER. ” This seems to fly in the face of the library profession ’s belief in privacy. ” The professor in question: John Casey.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” The School Library Journal reports that “ New York DOE Green Lights Amazon eBook Deal.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). The NAACP endorses OER. ” Although this Wall Street Journal article is about the tech industry broadly, it’s still worth noting: “ Once-Flush Startups Struggle to Stay Alive as Investors Get Pickier.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 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.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

” Let’s all point out how this article gets “the pioneers of the MOOC” wrong. said he was fired after five years of leading the for-profit institution after allowing a homeless student to sleep overnight in the college’s library to escape cold weather.” Sloan Foundation has awarded DPLA $1.5

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.” More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. Contests and Awards.

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