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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.
Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement.
But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions. These are basically free.
Stephen has posted Four Conclusions on OERs he has drawn from our conversation. My long term goals in advocating for OER are to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners and (2) radically improve access to education worldwide. Let me start with “the goal” of the OER movement.
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I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.
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SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.
Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”) ” From Lumen Learning’s David Wiley : “Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption.”
The NAACP endorses OER. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. The mobile app maker has raised $11.9 .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” Increased by just 2, but still.).
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. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I
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