Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The materials shared during those first years were totally random – essays, photos, technical documentation, etc. Of course innovation with OER didn’t actually stop with openly licensed traditional textbooks. OER have also been used as part of personalized, interactive courseware systems, too.

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Strategy OER Education Policies 129

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. OER Commons – What a wonderful place to find open educational resources. I have done 100?s

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Study Classroom OER Education 166

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

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. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Last week I posted the middle section of the presentation, How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources , in which I described how we need to move beyond narrow thinking about how generative AI impacts our work with traditional OER and begin thinking more broadly about the power generative OER.

OER 66

OER Accessibility Education Broadband 66

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

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. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 20, 2020

This effort will document how your pivoted practice positions you as an even more pivotal player. Here are several compelling reasons why, this is the year you must start documenting your impact. This is the perfect time to document the value of your curations. How have you led in curating and integrating OER?

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Report Adobe OER eBook 138

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. The technology is a driving force for the consultation industry wherein they specialize in training and staffing. Open Education Resources (OER). Interactive Audio-Video Learning.

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MOOC Gamification OER Smartphone 127

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From detailing various funding sources to providing insights into statewide and regional partnerships and offering practical examples of cybersecurity training, the document is a must-read for everyone involved in helping districts improve their cybersecurity posture. state and territorial educational technology and digital learning leaders.

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Resources Microsoft Advocacy OER 105

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. To be sure, there are gold nugget lessons within the vast OER and marketplace libraries, but finding them is difficult and time-consuming. More filler than fire-starter. Quantity over quality. As a teacher, this is what you live for.

EdTech 125

EdTech OER Industry Study 125

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2018

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I’m not sure that the document recognizes this.

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OER Company Pearson Resources 74

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

We’ll document and publicly share what we’re doing. A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So This first project will be smaller.

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OER Social Media Classroom Industry 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. There are articles, videos, PBL Units, rubrics, designer documents, and many more. Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference?

Blended Learning 180

Blended Learning Learning LMS STEM 180

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Among the report’s findings are that 91 percent of the administrators responding to the survey said that innovation “is stated as a priority in either their strategic or academic plans, or both documents.” Now, she says, the use of technology in learning has created more of a need to put money behind innovation. Evangeline J.

Report 96

Report Competency Based Learning OER Survey 96

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

The authentic interdisciplinary text includes news articles, short stories, speeches, poems, historical documents and excerpts from classical literature, all selected to support the course of study for middle and high school, especially for English, social students, science.

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OER Common Core Facebook Strategy 40

The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

I am proud to announce the first of many documents being released by the @waospi on guidance for K12 educators in the state of Washington. This is just the first of many documents that will be coming from the AI Committee that I am honored to be co-facilitating in doing this work. of Education , and Teachai just to name a few.

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OER UDL Training Industry 69

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. New York Hall of Science – Wonderful site presents 450 exhibits, demonstrations, workshops and participatory activities that explain science, technology, engineering, and math.

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STEM Resources Learning Conference 162

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

“We’re very committed to following the format of the previous NMC report,” says Noreen Barajas-Murphy, interim director of academic community programs, who led the completion of the document. “It Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Report OER Trends Industry 73

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

You will also find posts filled with resources including Science , Technology , and Engineering in STEM. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. PDF documents. Check it out if you have not had a chance!

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

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. Want to simplify how you communicate, collaborate, and share documents? Kami helps teachers convert documents into PDF files and share them with students.

EdTech 66

EdTech OER Tools Microsoft 66

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. We must allow our students to use their gifts and skills to make and create using technology the teacher may not even be familiar with. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

srcid=0B6dF7rWxc-5aMGMyanRsMW5DbzQ&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true Find Apps for Chromebook - great resource to find apps to use with Chromebooks [link] A great list of Apps and Extensions for Education https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDrYNfAPlLY-2Y7kbL_ADBfVePYmREbNXXV_fyTh5LM/mobilebasic?pli=1

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have often wondered what John Dewey would do in today’s educational setting with our vast amount of knowledge from research and our rapid growth of technology. I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

According to the document, “the recent steep declines in the e-learning industry essentially mean that the e-learning era is effectively over. The product has reached the end of its product life cycle and simply cannot compete with new learning technology products on the market.”. One headwind specific to the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this fifth post you will discover how careful examination of the verbs in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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Technology Resources Examples Blended Learning 60

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2016

Annual survey reveals more and more districts are turning to OER and other digital learning resources. Sixty-two percent of districts in a recent survey have a digital content and curriculum strategy, and more than half of those strategies (38 percent) include using Open Educational Resources (OER).

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Survey OER Digital Learning Strategy 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

You can search for Open Educational Resources (OER) within Destiny Discover and immediately add them to your collections. We can work with as curricular teams to build instruction–connecting free web and OER content with content we purchase and adding our own documents–instruction, scaffolds, rubrics.

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OER Social Media Software Resources 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And then sharing it with people meant handing over a document or a PDF at best.”. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. This scattershot method begs the question: Where’s the efficiency? Digitization to the Max: What That Could Look Like.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 69

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. BryanAlexander @Moodler Are you aware of any learners using Moodle to create and document their own personal learning pathways? Thank you. .

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. BryanAlexander @Moodler Are you aware of any learners using Moodle to create and document their own personal learning pathways? Thank you. .

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Click To Tweet. (but

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Google eBook Assessment OER 95

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

School administrators learned about the site, to be called Amazon Inspire, during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, held here. “If you think about those resources, they’re not all that discoverable or sharable.”

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OER Resources Education Edmodo 40

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Indiana high school teacher Susan Ketcham’s primary source set includes two short, but poignant excerpted interviews with Alexie discussing his Spokane roots, as well as photographs, paintings, documents and this Teaching Guide: Exploring The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

OER 40

OER Libraries Study Groups 40

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

They not only rescued most of the Horizon project’s intellectual property, but then conducted research (including identifying many exemplars ), wrote tens of thousands of words (over 32,000 by my count), carefully produced a full document with appropriate style, then published it openly. The latter… oh, I hope so.

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Report Trends Robotics OER 46

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Documents in more than 100 additional languages may be uploaded and used with all the analysis and Insight tools in Manual mode. Librarians might create grade- and curricular-relevant folders of highly engaging content, perhaps OER. Imagine the potential for librarians as supporters of literacy.

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Microsoft Education Assessment Data 77

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. It’s not about teaching technology, it’s about using the technology to TEACH. The “Girls” explain that a true HyperDoc is much more than some links on a document.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49