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At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. The overall average price for “OER Only” (Open Educational Resources in all formats, including new print, used print, rental, loose-leaf, and digital) is $10.69. The adoption rate of OER is 6.3%.
These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. There’s more bad OER out there than good; that’s a fact,” said Rebecca Kockler, assistant superintendent of academic instruction for the state of Louisiana, at the annual SXSWedu conference last week in Austin, Texas. Quality was our goal.”.
As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics.
It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks.
10 Education Conferences. We shared the League’s and EdClusters’ work and provided opportunities to showcase our member school districts at 10 Education conferences. A few conferences in detail: At SXSW EDU, we highlighted the power of EdClusters in advancing educational opportunities through community.
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. professors enjoy academic freedom to select their own course materials, it can take a lot of personal persuasion to convince each to try teaching a new text.
I heard this question six years ago after it was raised at a major publishing conference. Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. Is free curriculum content like a free beer or a free puppy?
Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. I have three pre-conference workshops that you may want to register for. I will also have three concurrent session during the main conference. Learn more at the conference master classes page.
Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. It is all possible with CK-12.
When Wallinga returned to campus from last fall’s Accelerate conference, he brought back a check, a trophy, and newfound respect. When Wallinga returned to campus from last fall’s Accelerate conference, he brought back a check, a trophy, and newfound respect. . “At The result? 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.
Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. happened on the Sunday evening before the first day of the conference. million seed round to build a learning management system modeled after WhatsApp and Slack. Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies.
Esther Wojcicki : Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant. Thursday, October 24 "Making Informal PD Count" Lucy Gray : Apple Distinguished Educator Lucy Gray is an education technology and social media consultant; co-founder of the Global Education Conference. Consultant. Connecting People Shorty Award Recipient.
Follow @edwebnet on Twitter to find us at the conference. 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. dreambox learning. Bring your device to explore our digital learning metrics!
Digital Learning Futures View more presentations from Steve Wheeler As I write this blog post, the above slideshow has received almost 18,000 views in just 48 hours since it was posted up onto Slideshare.
A former student once gave me a gift of a learning playlist progressively arranged for me to improve my two-step moves before a conference in Texas. Professional development : Playlists are excellent vehicles to drive those technology lunch-and-learn experience. Student-Created Learning Playlists by Meredith Akers.
For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalizedlearning.”
” For those not up on corporate conference speak, Dreamforce is Salesforce’s big annual event. In other Salesforce news, “The University of Texas System teams up with Salesforce to turn its learning platform into a learning relationship management system ,” Inside Higher Ed reports.
“ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? Via Education Week : “Why Neuroscience Should Drive PersonalizedLearning ” – because of “the propagation of myths and misinformation.” The business of OER. . “ Can Online Credit Recovery Recover? ” asks The Atlantic.
The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Excelsior College and publisher Cengage Learning on Tuesday said they would partner to create self-paced online degree programs to give students an alternative pathway to college credit.”
Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalizedlearning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via CNBC : “This Chinese-Israeli start-up wants to change the way kids learn to code.”
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.
“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for PersonalizedLearning.” Via ESPN : “Police records detail several more violence allegations against Baylor football players.”
“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. Good thing IBM Watson isn’t making any claims about “personalizedlearning” or partnering with beloved shows like Sesame Street.
“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. You can now learn Klingon on Duolingo , Techcrunch reports.
The NAACP endorses OER. “A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Pac–12 Conference infringed on labor laws and thus owed money to a former Division I football player,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Go, School Sports Team! From the HR Department.
Educause is holding its annual conference this week. ” From Edsurge : “Invasive or Informative? ” This looks primarily at Summit Public Schools, which works with Facebook to build a learning management system that folks will try to convince you is “ personalizedlearning.”
Via Boing Boing : “Dupes gather at sold-out Flat Earth International Conference.” Via The Guardian : “ Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web : ‘The system is failing’ ” It is not entirely clear to me what, per this Edsurge op-ed , higher ed can learn from precision medicine.
There’s lots more from Betsy DeVos’s talk at SXSWedu in the conferences section below. ” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and PersonalizedLearning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. ” Conferences and Events. Edsurge on the business of OER. Memos from HR.
” 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.” “Can Venture Capital Put PersonalizedLearning Within Reach of All Students?” ” Hell no.
“Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” “School libraries can serve as personalizedlearning hotspots,” says Education Dive – but only if libraries fail to protect student privacy and gather lots of clicks about what students are doing, which seems fundamentally anti-librarian to me. ”). .”
” “Ed-Tech Publishing Group Wrestles With Shift to ‘Student-Centered’ Learning ,” says EdWeek Market Brief’s Michele Molnar , reporting from the Association of American Publishers’ PreK–12 Learning Group ’s conference.
.” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. “The Growing Role of Technology in PersonalizedLearning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. ” Well someone has to keep paying for vendor spaces at ed-tech conferences, I guess.
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