Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). para can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

OER 130

OER E-rate Hapara Libraries 130

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.

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OER Data Tools Trends 91

Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide. Stories of EdTech Innovation.

OER 100

OER Future Ready Edmodo Education 100

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants.

Knewton 121

Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 121

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Publicly-traded companies like Wiley generally share the price of their acquisitions, unless the financial impact is considered immaterial to the buyer’s bottom line. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 143

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

While OER was presented as one way to ease course material costs, other challenges remain, starting with understanding and awareness of what the term means. Still, sustainable ways to fund OER into the future remains an open question. Can evidence even keep up with edtech? Those models need to develop,” said Allen.

OER 80

OER EdTech Company Data 80

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset. Universities should be buying and selling courseware from each other,” says Feldstein, a longtime edtech consultant who also runs the popular blog eLiterate. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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Pearson OER Software Course 142

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

But this time the company disabled the “share” feature—a key component of the service. The company ended up restoring the sharing feature at the end of the summer. There was no press release, and one educator who was a beta tester said that the company seemed to be going out of its way not to talk publicly about the site.

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OER Education Company System 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. With OER, the report notes, “initial advances in the authoring platform or curation method of open resources is now overshadowed by campuswide OER initiatives and sophisticated publishing options that blend adaptive elements into an OER text.”

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Report OER Trends Industry 66

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. The rest comes from company’s existing investors, including Accel, Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, Founders Fund and Sofina.

Knewton 66

Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 66

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

Adobe 60

Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Open Education Resources (OER). A good example of this would be the usage of OERs by Sky Customer Service to train their employees. E-learning has seen a broad positive shift in the last couple of years.

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MOOC Gamification OER Smartphone 127

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.) Wondering about Apple?

Microsoft 112

Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. In addition to better collaboration and communication throughout the university, there are a number of edtech companies out there that synthesize the process for you. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. According to.

OER 60

OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

This is the edtech industry’s premier financial conversation, packed with more than 4,100 people and 350 CEOs. Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies. Learn Capital is closing on a seed investment vehicle dubbed “ LearnStart ,” which has already invested in a Finnish company, 3DBear.

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Company Kaplan EdTech Industry 106

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). There’s a surprising amount of momentum behind it,” said Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 118

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

There is much that’s wrong with the educational technology (“edtech”) market. It would be an interesting thought exercise to re-examine the traditional seven virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity) and decide what each of their edtech replacements would be.

Technology 72

Technology Education EdTech OER 72

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! This year attendees were treated to a Battle of the EdTech Stars.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

At the time, the company got a talking to from teachers in comments on its Facebook page for Amazon Education. The Amazon executive who spearheaded the creation of Inspire, Rohit Agarwal, left the company in March “to pursue other opportunities.” That official Facebook page for Amazon Education hasn’t been updated since June 30, 2016.

Education 119

Education OER Company Facebook 119

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise. EdFocus: The Edtech Industry Community is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that will help you connect with colleagues in the education industry to share information and resources, raise questions, and get advice. Join the Community.

Instructional Materials 49

Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 49

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. How to Best Serve ELLs with Edtech : As the number of English Language Learners (ELL) in the U.S.

MOOC 60

MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Knewton technology is also used enVisionMATH2.0 , a Pearson offering for grades K-8, but neither company offered specific details on the status of this agreement.) “Our The value proposition that Knewton and its competitors have offered to these companies is that by collecting user data, the system can infer what a student knows—or doesn’t.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 82

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. Since the U.S.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

At ISTE 2015, Common Sense Education will provide a sneak preview of the latest version of Graphite, designed to help educators learn fundamental edtech teaching skills. Share your vision for the future of edtech using #EnvisionEdu. Learn about how to use open educational resources (OER) in your classroom! Can’t make it?

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OER iPad EdTech Twitter 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Michelson Runway , a San Francisco-based accelerator, announced the handful of companies that will be in its inaugural cohort. Around 200 companies applied for the five spots in the 2016 cohort. Michelson Runway has invested a total of $225,000 in the companies, with each receiving a minimum of $25,000 and some getting more.

OER 60

OER Company Outcomes Adaptive Learning 60

EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

This cry for trials proving rigor has prompted a response from industry in the form of multiple companies doing evaluations of products. The problem with some of these evaluations is they are mere commercial labels placed for the benefit of earning income from the company being evaluated – directly or indirectly.

Learning 100

Learning Software E-rate Industry 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

In the absence of answers to this question, it is too easy for teachers and administrators to become unwitting brand ambassadors for companies seeking to integrate their products into the classroom, regardless of impact on student learning and success.

Software 53

Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 53

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. The company is also banking on authors and adopters to check for quality themselves.

OER 67

OER Company Adaptive Learning Resources 67

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? A lot of media, telecom, eCommerce, software companies use this model, where customers pay for the service or product for a specific time period. a semester.

OER 16

OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

https://technologyrescue.eventbrite.com March 14th, 7pm US-Eastern: Webinar: Using EdTech to Supercharge Student Inquiry and Multimedia Literacy Skills This is a free event, but you must register to attend and will be sent the event link. Receive a special 15% discount at the end just by attending!

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Chromebook Blendspace Libraries Conference 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Most of the cable companies are providing free access, but parents might need education about these opportunities. EDtech Top 50. Digital Curriculum… 24 OER (Open Edu Resources) Free. Determine community Wifi access points that may be available still allowing for social distancing… parking lots for uploads and downloads, etc.

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” 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. ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. The student loan company has raised $803.6

Education 47

Education Robotics OER MOOC 47

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community.

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Conference Education Case Study Mobility 4

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here.

Coursera 74

Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 74

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. Related to this development was the rise of what I think of as Social Justice Edtech. Cathy O’Neil’s criticism of data analytics’ misuse resonated with a large number of people.

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Trends LMS Social Media Education 121

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, content offered by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable. Hi OER Friends! There was confusion. “Hi

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OER Course Chegg Company 176