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Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. To me OER is also about the democratization of access to education, and the pursuit and sharing of knowledge.
Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. From a growth perspective, the PersonalLearning Network ( PLN ) concept has dramatically impacted countless educators across the globe.
NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment. OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). PBL – Project Based Learning ( click here for my guide ). PLN – PersonalLearning Network. PLN – PersonalLearning Network. RED – Rapid e-learning Development.
Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. She opens her Chromebook, signs into Student Dashboard Digital Backpack and quickly sees two articles her teacher shared. Looking to get started with a similar OER initiative? Request a demo.
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Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. I’m also certain that as soon as I consider this article done, I will think of six more that should have absolutely been included within the list. I’ve ordered your book as well.
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I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” I have three pre-conference workshops that you may want to register for.
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” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. 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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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 750,000 to the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning ; $685,000 to Roses in Concrete Community School ; $700,000 to Peer Health Exchange ; and the rest to GripTape. National) Education Politics.
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.) Because technology imperialism.
A recent New York Times article detailed how humans can get goose bumps when we experience awe, that often-positive feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends our understanding of the world. Awe might seem like just another three-letter word, but it is so much more. Below is the one video of his that got me hooked.
.” “ Thomas Pogge , one of the world’s most prominent ethicists, stands accused of manipulating students to gain sexual advantage,” says Buzzfeed in an article about allegations – an “open secret” apparently – about the Yale professor. ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).
Perhaps I need to start a new section in this article where I look at these sorts of b t predictions and proclamations and cliches. Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley. “If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER” by Stephen Downes.
“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.
” From Data & Society : “ PersonalizedLearning : The Conversations We’re Not Having.” ” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill has updated a 2015 article with new data : “How Much Do Community College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks ?” Surprising results from new study.”
” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalizedlearning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).
So, no doubt, were several articles by and about Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein and his defense of Trump and DeVos. “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” Via The Hechinger Report : “Why Betsy DeVos ’ vision of education does little to ensure equity.” But I ain’t gonna link to that crap.).
“The Growing Role of Technology in PersonalizedLearning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.”
Educause has published an article about “ The Mastery Transcript Consortium ,” a group of independent schools that are “reinventing” the college transcript. (I’m ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”
The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. ” Rebrand.
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” 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.”
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. ” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and PersonalizedLearning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Personalizedlearning ” – it’s simply the best idea that money can buy (that isn’t already being paid for by Salesforce, I guess). Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning.
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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, Um, they do.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Good thing IBM Watson isn’t making any claims about “personalizedlearning” or partnering with beloved shows like Sesame Street. National) Education Politics. ” Don’t worry. ” More via the AP.
” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.” ” ( No disclosure in this article that Edsurge shares investors with Guild Education.). .”
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