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Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. Oh, and unroll.me
Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. collects and sells user data while helping you clean up your inbox. Oh, and unroll.me
Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. Be explicit with districts about expectations for access to technology in schools and classrooms.
At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER? and Mary Reiman (NE).
Formative and Summative Assessment –Obtaining progress data is imperative and typical summative assessment can be employed. that is seeing content multiply at an expositional rate, it is also important to help students become seekers of knowledge and lifetime self-learners. E is for Endless Inquiry. In a world.
Mountain Heights Academy in Utah, the 2017 Student Voices Award winner, encourages students to participate in the instructional design process using an OER curriculum. Since the majority of their lessons and assignments are open educational resources (OER) they wanted to license their Operation Bee curriculum as OER.
Gabe Soumakian: With E-rate modernization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and more taking place at once, what are you looking at in terms of changes to the way you’re funding technology these days? Stuart Burt : When they changed E-rate a couple years ago, it was a learning curve.
If you look at Connections Academy, the schools are incredibly popular with parents…[We measure the extent to which parents recommended our online programs among each other] and it receives an incredibly high rating.” Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].
Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. Connectivity raises cost issues, too.
Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. There are no cap limits, no throttle rates, and no chastising schools when they need extra bandwidth. Included in the new report and accompanying website are case studies of success stories.
” More on employment data in the “research and data” section below. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Private equity firm ZMB has made a majority stake investment in Education Networks of America , which provides data services to schools and libraries. kkthxbye. .
” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. Educator’s Assessment Data Management System ( EADMS ) is merging with IO Education.
Via NPR : “ Betsy DeVos ’ Graduation Rate Mistake.” “The Education Department is unlikely to be eliminated, particularly by a bill that declines to specify who or what would take over its $68 billion annual budget and the functions of data collection, oversight, civil rights enforcement and student aid, among others.”
This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. " Tagged on: March 10, 2017 When Extensions Go Bad | The Electric Educator → Keeping your devices and data private requires vigilance and caution. ." Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.
.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. ” Via Real Clear Education : “Connecting Schools to the Future: Rethinking E-Rate.”
Financial data for Coursera, Udacity, edX, and other MOOC-related companies, along with the list of MOOCs’ new academic partners, can be found on funding.hackeducation.com. ” Tuition keeps going up and up and up, although as The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, published tuition rates only rose 2.4%
” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. Rebecca Schuman is back with her annual “ Rate My JIL ,” where she skewers the higher ed job market. His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). ” From the HR Department.
The NAACP endorses OER. Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” ” asks Jade E.
“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. ” Edsurge on the “Five Dangers of Data-Informed Student Nudging.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.
That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.
Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. A+ for compliant behavior.
” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” “ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? ” asks Wired.
The Department of Education , under the auspices of “transparency,” promises more access to data about financial aid. Via The New York Times : “ Big Ten Universities Entering a New Realm: E-Sports.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”
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