Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 10, 2016

Because I can’t stop thinking about open, I’ve been pondering the relationship between solar power and OER. ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free? ”, “How can you sell OER if they’re free?”, ”, and “If OER are free, why would anyone pay you?”

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

LMS provider itslearning and Gooru , a nonprofit organization which provides a free online learning navigator for educators of the same name, announced a strategic partnership to enhance itslearning’s platform with open educator-curated content and successful practices for personalized learning.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. Best of all, many of these lessons can be incorporated in a Learning Management System (LMS). So many of the ideas can blend into your LMS! A true free Goldmine!

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Learning Management System (LMS). E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number three in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). Part 3: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. OER Possibilities. LMS Integration. Provide links to your students or embed the lesson into the district LMS (Learning Management System).

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

But in the spirit of “pragmatism before zeal,” I argue in my comments specifically against three unintended consequences of open requirements as they pertain to LMSs, efficacy research, and assessment security / adoptability. simulations), and adaptive support and assessment tools.”. This would be a horrible consequence.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Contains formative learning and assessment opportunities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. I fear it is OER wanting it both ways. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Emoji Assessments for Any Classroom – SULS0168. Here are 10 Reasons to Think Before You Share Photos of Children Online.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Stakeholders should assess their digital beliefs to see where they stand, and also consider tech affordability and accessibility with regard to digitization. What’s Out There Now. Just a dream? Not really.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I The company has raised some $77.5

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The new text book might instead be the LMS (Learning Management System). ▪Textbooks and OER. Technology also allows educators to provide real time formative assessment, but also effective formative learning opportunities. While this may seem to be yet another initiative, it must be aligned with other initiatives in place.

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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. Another example might be the teacher curating the curriculum for students using their LMS (Learning Management System). Is it possible to assess skills the processing and 21 st century skills brought about by redefinition?

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

While most of the dialog around AI and education seems to be focused on assessment, I think the implications for instructional designers are critically important, too. And, because you’ve got to play the hits, let’s look at what their impact will be on OER as well.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with regard to OER. In last week’s post I talked about how we’re making it ridiculously easy for students, faculty, and others to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of OER. This is still a very real risk for OER. ” you might ask.

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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. Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS. Unacademy has raised $11.5

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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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. “ Amplify Slims Down and Spins Off Assessment Content Provider, Fluence ,” says Edsurge. ” From Lumen Learning’s David Wiley : “Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption.” FoxConn will acquire SMART for $4.50

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard.

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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.” Once upon a time, the LMS maker was a non-profit. Kaleidoscope Group has raised $1.3

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Justin Reich on “ assessment ” versus “ evaluation.” Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.” ” The LMS as gateway to a job application. ” Via EdSource : “U.S. Sloan Foundation has awarded DPLA $1.5

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. ” Here’s the rub: it’s an LMS. More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. Educator’s Assessment Data Management System ( EADMS ) is merging with IO Education.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

“In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports.

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