Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Open Educational Resources (OER) have yet to cozy up with the more orthodox academics and pushy print publishers of the world. But skeptics hold that the quality of digital course materials don’t stand up to that of the Pearson’s and McGraw Hill’s of the world. On its own, the OER company partners with nearly 150 campuses.

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K12 Open Ed

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A few us have been pondering the question “ How can we best advance the adoption of OER in K-12? There is currently a good amount of high quality, standards-aligned OER in K-12 with lots more coming online. With regards to OER, many states have approved, recommended, and/or endorsed the use of OER.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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K12 Open Ed

APRIL 27, 2015

Last week, the K-12 OER Collaborative entered the next phase of their project, awarding contracts for rapid prototypes to the following developers: edCount LLC. This may be the one of the important opportunities for OER, blended learning, and CCSS we’ve seen to date. [Disclosure: I am part of an advisory group for this project.].

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

What I do want to comment on (in greater than 140 characters) is the practice of ‘openwashing:’ what it is, why I believe not being able to go beyond a pro-OER elephant test for organizations and service providers is untenable in practice, and some thoughts on what we can do about it. The Pro-OER Elephant Test.

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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. Edward Watson.

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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). And what kind of impact data should they be tracking over the course of a season? Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Founded in 2008, Knewton blazed its way into the edtech industry with bold proclamations about its adaptive-learning technology, which it then licensed to digital curriculum providers. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). And officials say that professors at 80 colleges are already trying the textbooks in their courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. The study looked at US students ranging from 7th to 12th grade taking the Big History Project course.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But today, edtech is commonly understood to mean digital technology. So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. OER and open books. In fact, I think some of the biggest edtech trends have been rather. favorite, the filmstrip.

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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. Why you should develop OER for K-12.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Of course, kids love games, so this is a fun way to teach them about important issues they’ll come across online and help reinforce digital citizenship skills. Digital citizenship Workspaces Hāpara Workspace is a teaching and learning tool that allows educators to share interactive lessons, units and courses.

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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.

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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). Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. You will, of course, have some very different needs or ideas and I know you will want to redecorate. Some tips: Of course, you’ll want your own avatar. by EZ EdTech! Click here to make a copy and edit.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Furthermore, universities and school are also inclined towards diversifying their facilities through online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming. However, some courses are chargeable.

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Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER. .” making instructional resources widely available via open educational resources (OER), which may include supporting school districts in using OER. The post U.S.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). The textbooks cover subjects that work well for secondary grade levels, although some are written for college courses. para can help your school or district easily build and distribute a digital OER textbook collection.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Technology can often seem like an afterthought, but if used wisely from the start, some edtech tools and resources can be a big help to a teacher who's just starting out. Later, once you've established some classroom routines, you can experiment with other resources, building your edtech toolkit as you go. OER Commons.

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K12 Open Ed

MAY 27, 2015

I’ve been thinking about how to position specific OER curriculum products, especially in the K-12 space. If you ask most educators if they know what “open licensed” or “OER” or “Creative Commons” is, they will say yes. Next post, the pros and cons of positioning OER as “free.”

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. Here’s the good news: Our government edtech officials are convinced that librarians should play a role in curating the burgeoning number of open educational resources (they gave us several shout-outs and ensured we were there).

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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.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. 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. This wonderful OER makes it easy for teachers to assemble their own textbooks.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. High school math – “Precalculus” Several college educators collaborated on this textbook to use in any pre-calculus course. You can also use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom for electives courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. The collaboration allowed the bookstore access to the library’s online catalog to see which materials in faculty’s course packs were readily available in library journals. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. According to.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

But last November, Knewton announced that it would directly offer digital curricula—and set itself on course to compete with publishers. The company licenses content from OER providers including FlatWorld, a for-profit offering low-cost course materials, and OpenStax, a nonprofit housed at Rice University.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Getting Amazon to talk about what it is up to is not as easy as just shouting questions to Alexa on an Echo, of course.) My sense of publishers is that they’re in this mode of dismissing OER entirely, and it’s a crazy mistake,” he adds. She declined to provide additional details. Department of Education.

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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? It offers unlimited access to digital textbooks and course materials for $119.99 It is for this reason that education publishers are now trying out the subscription model.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Among the Pearson products that will phase out Knewton’s technology include those in the MyLab and Mastering suite , which cover a wide range of higher-ed courses in math, economics, English, sciences and engineering. content providers.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 5, 2024

Exploring the K12 Digital Curriculum Solutions Interactive eBooks Online Collaborative Platforms Adaptive Learning Systems Open Educational Resources (OER) Virtual Labs and Simulations III. Adaptive Learning Systems Adaptive learning systems leverage advanced AI algorithms to design a personalized learning course for every student.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

ESSA: What Edtech Providers Need to Know : Whiteboard Advisors Senior Vice President David DeSchryver and Education Week Senior Editor Sean Cavanagh break down one of the biggest federal education policies to pass in the last decade: the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). continues to grow, how can edtech help serve this population?

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