Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

The local needs assessment to be conducted by the school district is to be focused on identifying gaps in a school district’s “access to personalized learning experiences supported by technology and professional development for the effective use of data and technology” and is to be updated every three years.

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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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

It’s been a good year for open educational resources (OER). made commitments this year to establish entire degree programs based solely on OER. Governor Jerry Brown set aside $5 million for OER degree programs in California community colleges. But “free” is not the only important characteristic of OER.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. So far, more than 9 million students have used OpenStax books, the nonprofit reports, calculating their cumulative savings to students at $800 million. 1 in the market.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Online case studies highlight OER implementation in schools. SETDA has published a series of case studies focused on the implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) at the school level. SETDA encourages state, district and school leaders to leverage this work as they launch and expand OER initiatives.”.

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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. WIll provide a foundation for further learning opportunities.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. of students passed the course.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. It covers the First Amendment, reporting basics, digital journalism and ethics and law.

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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 ?

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

LMS provider itslearning and Gooru , a nonprofit organization which provides a free online learning navigator for educators of the same name, announced a strategic partnership to enhance itslearning’s platform with open educator-curated content and successful practices for personalized learning.

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LMS OER Future Ready Personalized Learning 69

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St. Developing digital portfolios and personalized learning plans: Every student at St. The post Using Makerspaces to Support Personalized Learning appeared first on edWeb.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. More important, the data entry can seem pointless when the outcomes aren’t applicable to the students.

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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. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures. Thank you. .

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 79

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Cooperate or Compete What happens when legacy publishers and OER upstarts meet in the same room to talk about a buzzy phrase like the “Netflix of Higher Ed”? Personalized Learning’ is Not an Algorithm Higher education and K-12 may hold different views about what personalized learning is—but at the very least, they agree what it is not.

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Company Kaplan EdTech Industry 121

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. Someone on the Moodle.com site wrote up an extraordinarily rich report on the session , complete with numerous screen captures. Thank you. .

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Moodle LMS OER Blackboard 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. A Debate on “Open” Educational Resources : Can free and open educational resources (OER) save students money without compromising their content or value? Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Via NPR : “Grand Jury Report On Penn State Hazing Finds ‘Indignities And Depravities’ ” The Business (and Politics) of Student Loans. ” asks The Hechinger Report. ” “Personalized learning,” I believe Zuck calls this. ” Education in the Courts. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Ultimately, it has to be paid for somewhere in the system.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” ” Then, “A Day Later, Football Coach Out at Maryland,” Inside Higher Ed reported. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” “New Facebook features intended for developers could, if expanded, turn the social networking site into an online learning platform,” Inside Higher Ed reported in June.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” “ Learning to code will eventually be as useful as learning Ancient Greek,” Quartz claims. .”

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SETDA Says

JUNE 19, 2015

SETDA and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University College of Education recently co-released the national report, State Digital Learning Exemplars: read more.

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Digital Learning Learning Report Education 28

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. Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” ” Spoiler alert: Latinos.

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Hechinger Report. Will schools continue to accelerate the pace of blended learning – which incorporates technology into classes along with in-person instruction? Will states enable schools to pursue personalized learning strategies, which make use of technology to create custom-fit lessons for students?

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Technology Future Ready Blended Learning EdTech 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” Via Wired UK : “ UK’s Nudge Unit tests machine learning to rate schools and GPs.” Via Education Week : “Two Districts Roll Back Summit Personalized Learning Program.” ” “ OER , Capability, and Opportunity” by David Wiley. ” “Nudge Unit.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” Education Week reports that , in front of a room full of CEOs, Secretary of Education Betsy "DeVos argued that 65 percent of today’s kindergartners will end up in jobs that haven’t even been created yet. ” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports.

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Education OER Pearson Report 48

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via The LA School Report : “ LAUSD approves $7.5 ” “ Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” “Students’ Rising Expectations Pose Challenge to Online Programs ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 54

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

But as Education Week reports , “States Bristle as DeVos Ed. ” Inside Higher Ed reports that “The Republican budget resolution envisions more than $236 billion in cuts to mandatory spending for education programs over 10 years.” And their parents can end up in jail,” AlterNet reports. for-profits?”

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Education LMS Robotics Coursera 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Here are some reports from her travels: Via Chalkbeat : “What is Betsy DeVos ’s ‘rethink school’ initiative all about? ” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. .” The accreditor: the Higher Learning Commission.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” “ Kansas lawmakers, trying to head off a court shutdown of the state’s public schools, have increased aid to poor districts by $38 million,” NPR reports. ” Rebrand. .”

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

University of Texas at Austin , related to features unique to that university,“ Inside Higher Ed reports. ” As Vox reports, “The Court announced Thursday that it was unable to reach a decision in the case United States v. ” asks The Hechinger Report after looking at the country’s rising PISA scores.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

.” “The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011,” the AP reports. ” “ Carthage Goes Test Optional on Admissions,” Inside Higher Ed reports. From MIT President L.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

. “Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. ” asks KQED’s Mindshift.

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

The Department of Education’s Chief Privacy Officer Kathleen Styles has been “reassigned,” Education Week reports. ” The Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump Administration might limit the number of visas available to Chinese students. Perhaps this should go in the “reports” section.

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