Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. However, OER are not CPRs. This principle fails to apply to OER in multiple ways. We could go on.

OER 103

OER Resources Groups Accessibility 103

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

Schools can use tools such as Learning Registry to collaborate on open educational resources (OERs), pulling content created by educators around the district, purchased, or taken from outside sources. Five of the nine states involved in the SETDA report are currently using Ed-Fi resources. by Eli Zimmerman.

Competency Based Learning 283

Competency Based Learning OER Data Comparison 283

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. No industry analyst we spoke with believes the sale price was anywhere near what Knewton had raised.

Knewton 167

Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 167

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools.

OER 298

OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 298

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. Now what will YOU do?

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. However, it has taken the e-learning industry by storm. This is the level of vitality of smartphones which makes it necessary for the e-learning industry to introduce mLearning, i.e., mobile learning on a large scale.

MOOC 127

MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

An instructor can type in a concept or idea, such as “industrial design,” into the tool his team built, called Eureka!, Once the tool generates results, the instructor can identify which ones are most like what he means by “industrial design” or whichever term he used. Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.

Robotics 164

Robotics OER Industry Education 164

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Even though Pearson is not cutting out print completely, its digital-first update strategy may still alienate some faculty, says Wiley, who is currently the chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, a company that provides digital OER courseware to colleges and universities. “It It doesn’t matter what a publisher wants to sell.

Pearson 167

Pearson OER Company Knewton 167

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. Now what will YOU do?

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

Trends 218

Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

Pearson 146

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 146

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. Its findings are of special interest in light of recent shifts in the textbook industry. states and two Canadian provinces.

Course 167

Course OER Pearson Survey 167

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. Austin, Texas outside of the SXSW EDU conference And that was just the start.

OER 111

OER EdTech Company Data 111

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.

EdTech 135

EdTech OER Industry Study 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example. With OER, the report notes, “initial advances in the authoring platform or curation method of open resources is now overshadowed by campuswide OER initiatives and sophisticated publishing options that blend adaptive elements into an OER text.”

Report 85

Report OER Trends Industry 85

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat is “partially becoming a publisher—the thing that they’ve long wanted to compete with,” observes Phil Hill, an education industry analyst and consultant. Silagadze likens his model to GitHub, the project collaboration tool popular among the tech industry, whereby users can collaborate and contribute updates.

Knewton 153

Knewton Company Course OER 153

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs).

EdTech 189

EdTech Future Ready Social Media Broadband 189

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. 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. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

OER 60

OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

OER 74

OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 74

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

The second obstacle standing in the way of the broad adoption of free software was the word “free” Many free software advocates understood that without adoption and use by business and industry, free software would never live up to its transformative potential. I don’t trust them. Freeriders!

OER 124

OER Software Company Microsoft 124

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). That’s one argument made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, which advocates for lower textbook costs and OER.

Pearson 147

Pearson OER Course Accessibility 147

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We saw a of myriad new and exciting programs—like centers where high school students apply industry skills, collaborative spaces for students across multiple grade levels, and physical environment extensions for blind students. We hope to visit even more districts in 2019!

Data 197

Data Conference Assessment OER 197

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

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 project will happen this semester as teachers develop and share best practices for collaborative app development.

OER 150

OER Social Media Classroom Industry 150

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Technology companies—in all industries—make users anxious when they describe their work with the vagueness of a magician. (In fact, Quartz suggests that education services are the. least likely to be automated of 19 job sectors, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and McKinsey Global Institute.) Source: Quartz.

Personalized Learning 133

Personalized Learning Learning Facebook OER 133

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

You may gasp, but gaming is a multi-billion-dollar industry for a reason. Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world. I believe the answer has been in front of us this whole time: video games. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

Video 152

Video Learning OER Gamification 152

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means. The amount of free information online dwarfs the amount of information available as OER. OER are not a threat to publishers simply because they’re free.

OER 60

OER Industry Accessibility Resources 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

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. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

Technology Support 112

Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content. We’re at a state where the quality of OER is definitely on the level of content from any publishing company.

Knewton 83

Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 83

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Although rentals are a good option approved by educational institutes, OER is yet to be widely accepted by educational institutes.

Technology 80

Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

OER 60

OER Resources Common Core Education 60

EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

Along the way, a need for more teachers with more specialties, either directly associated with schools or acting as market free agents, will potentially change the whole industry. This cry for trials proving rigor has prompted a response from industry in the form of multiple companies doing evaluations of products. Evaluating Rigor.

Learning 100

Learning Software E-rate Industry 100

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? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

OER 16

OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like some states and districts, we created open access textbooks and taught teachers how to curate open educational resources (OER), thus freeing up textbook monies for other purposes? (kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

Education 100

Education OER Future Ready Blended Learning 100

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. market is the trend toward open and free educational resources, or OER. One headwind specific to the U.S. Since the U.S.

Report 70

Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

In an interview with EdSurge at the conference, General Assembly CEO Jake Schwartz said he was excited to continue to lead the operation, which will retain the brand and operate as a division of Adecco, and gain better connection to industry partners through the new parent company. But its education officials are looking for outside help.

Company 122

Company Kaplan EdTech Industry 122

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2015

By (1) equating “high quality” with process rather than results, and then (2) creating extremely complex authoring processes they proclaim to be “the industry standard,” publishers are attempting to create a barrier to entry for other would-be creators of educational resources (like many OER authors).

OER 60

OER Outcomes Pearson Resources 60

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

Data 100

Data LMS Competency Based Learning OER 100