Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

By definition, open educational resources (OER) are licensed in a manner that gives you permission to change, update, and improve them. Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning.

OER 94

OER Learning Analytics Analysis Course 94

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think the hype is definitely over. I think we are entering a phase of many different technologies becoming more sophisticated and more integrated into education eg mobile learning, social media, learning analytics.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

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. ” “How Should Colleges Approach Student Success When Different Definitions Abound?” Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

Education 47

Education Robotics OER MOOC 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145