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Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.
Another student could find photographs of places or inventions he wants to study and then create augmented reality-triggered videos of himself explaining what he’s learned. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. It is good! Where we are: Since the U.S.
I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! Here are our slides. it’s an interesting trend.
Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. Instead their interactions are relegated to stale chat forums, where questions go unanswered or where few students regularly visit. But these are still the minority online classes.
They lack what Giant Robot Dinosaur calls a Minimum Viable Personality. “Everyone knows” you’re not allowed to make changes to textbooks, learning objects, videos, and other educational media, and so the learning objects model is built partly in response to that “reality.”
Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Walk into your portal and upload your own 360 images and videos. Can robots write our papers, especially when they are able to learn and master our writing styles? Check out my Voices of Search video with Nicole. Coming in the next post: OER, OA and openness.
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“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.
” 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 Inside Higher Ed : “Donald De La Haye started making YouTube videos long before he joined the University of Central Florida ’s football team.
Below is the one video of his that got me hooked. Some examples include augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), adaptive tools, coding, drones/robotics, and gamification. Jason Silva considers awe to be a pivotal ingredient in making ideas resonate.
Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. The robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 ” Phil Hill also weighs in on the latest Babson survey on OER.
“Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Robots Will Save Liberal Education.” Via Campus Technology : “ MIT , Segway Robotics Hackathon Focuses on Eldercare.” ” asks Clint Lalonde. Think again.”
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Rivals Angle to Govern Campus Video Gaming.” Coddy Johnson , hired last year as the COO of AltSchool , is back at the video game company Activision. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Mattel releases biologically inspired foldable robot bugs.” ” From the HR Department.
” Via NPR : “ Texas High Schools To Require Police Interaction Education Video.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Futurism.com : “Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job.” Video streaming site Cheddar has acquired Rate My Professors. ” JFC.
It’s just a bunch of video-taped lectures for the (offline) “ Startup School ” event that the startup incubator program runs at Stanford (which is really just a series of short talks by entrepreneurs and founders). .” “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.
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. He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.
“The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” Or, SuperAwesome has launched an app that features kid-friendly video content with a ton of advertising. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” More via the AP.
Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.”
” Via The Times-Picayune : “ New Orleans principal loses job after wearing Nazi-associated rings in video.” Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Insert shrug emoji here.
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