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.

OER

Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

I said my piece in the updated article that spurred my original comment (including that the service the company in question provides looks “interesting and valuable,” especially in the context of the K-12 assessment market). The Pro-OER Elephant Test. Open is the New Green.

OER

Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

In the following sections, I describe how the educational technology program will operate – including the roles for actors at the district, state, and federal levels – and my assessment of what the program says of the federal view of and role for technology in education. I may touch upon some or all of these in a future post.

Policies

Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Types of OER you can develop for K-12. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment.

OER

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.

OER

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. If OER adoption were to become widespread among the majority of faculty, it became clear that someone would need to do something more than create OER, post it on a website, and give conference talks about it. Background and Some Problems.

OER

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. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student. colleges use at least one.

Industry

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. Rather than roll out a broad campaign to promote OER on campus, the center is focused on working with individual faculty members who teach large enrollment courses, Watson says.

OER

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2018

An open implementation of RISE was recently published in the Journal of Open Source Software. 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. [T]he Not just the OER itself, but the chapter and page number…. [I]f

OER

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

It is a software application that helps you create, track, and report training programme or educational courses anywhere using any device. E-learning automation helps to automatically create online content and assessments for a course. Open Education Resources (OER). Learning Management System (LMS).

MOOC

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’.

OER

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. He attributes this theory to the role Asia now plays in the global economy with automation being software driven, and abundance of material in the market place. Since it is OER (Open Education Resources) it is free.

STEM

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.

OER

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?

Accessibility

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson.

Learning

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment. To add to the richness of the experience, BioDigital Human allows students to virtually conduct dissections and use the information to study and explore. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/biodigital-human/agoenciogemlojlhccbcpcfflicgnaak?hl=en

Chromebook

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

Assessment

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

Assessment

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. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc.

OER

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Tyton Partners describes digital courseware as “instructional content that is scoped and sequenced to support delivery of an entire course through purpose-built software. It includes assessment to inform personalization of instruction and is equipped for adoption across a range of institutional types and learning environments.”.

OER

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.

Blended Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The most frequently cited definition of OER is the Hewlett Foundation definition : OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. License Must Not Restrict Other Software.

OER

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online.

Software

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

COVID-19 accelerated the rollout of Mosaic by ACT, which is being billed by the company as a comprehensive, adaptive learning solution weaving together assessments, curriculum, and social-emotional learning. The post ACT Rolls Its Recent Acquisitions Into a New, Integrated Learning Platform appeared first on Market Brief.

Adaptive Learning

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

With our classroom teacher partners, we build instruction; we build projects and assessments that focus on creativity and knowledge building using the information tools and strategies of our time. In the largest classrooms in our schools, we work with teachers to develop both traditional and emerging literacies.

Libraries

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more. They researched trophy designs, used software to create the trophies, and printed them on the 3D printer. She used the school’s design software and vinyl cutter to develop and print her stickers.

Personalized Learning

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.

OER

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.

OER

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll be writing a range of essays this year reflecting on two decades of work toward opening the core intellectual infrastructure of education (textbooks and other educational materials, assessments, and outcomes / objectives / competency statements) in order to increase access to and improve the effectiveness of education.

OER

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

In three years as an investor at Reach Capital, an edtech venture fund, I’ve watched public, private and philanthropic dollars pour into school operations, adaptive software, data analytics, teacher development, and teacher tools in worthy attempts to improve education. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality.

EdTech

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

Technology

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Open Source and OER ? Testing and Assessment ? Alice Keeler : Interview Amany Kheriba : OER: A way out through pandemics and beyond Amna Manzoor : Veni, vidi and vici: Ingenious, Making the Most Out of the Pandemic! Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ?

Conference

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

.” My most favorite lines simply must be these: “One of the early adopters of Imbellus was McKinsey & Company , the management consulting firm, which uses the scenario assessments to find job candidates. Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.” ” LOL, they do?!

Education

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In its simplest form, digital courseware refers to the curriculum delivered through customized software to facilitate teaching and learning. Textbook Bundles – Printed textbooks are converted to eBooks with supplemental materials and assessments, making the course complete. Converting textbooks to eBooks is a simple process.

eBook

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. ” asks Edsurge.

Education

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

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

Education

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. Reason: ‘Using Appliances’ ” Here’s the Chalkbeat headline : “New software aims to make teachers' jobs ‘much easier’ in Indianapolis Public Schools.” “Can U.S.

Coursera