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Champion for Adult Students Says Colleges Must Change How They Teach

Edsurge

She’s just made the jump from provost to a senior academic innovation fellow, tasked with looking to big new ideas in learning and experimental efforts in both teaching and student success. This conference attracts plenty of venture capitalists and companies in education. Remind people how big the OER effort is at UMUC.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Big 12 Conference’s Board of Directors on Wednesday requested ‘a full accounting of the circumstances surrounding the sexual assaults’ at Baylor University.” More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. ” From the HR Department. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Educause is holding its annual conference this week. Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. . “​Filling the Other Skills Gap ” by Trace Urdan writing in Edsurge. ” Ed-Tech Events.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. ” Well someone has to keep paying for vendor spaces at ed-tech conferences, I guess. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.