- Jul 2016
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www.alfiekohn.org www.alfiekohn.org
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we shouldn’t confuse personalized learning with personal learning
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children’s learning
How about Higher Ed.?
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digitally personalized.
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spend oodles of money
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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the largest consumer of college graduates
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there is widespread agreement among college officials and policymakers that the current accreditation system is broken
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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Funding for humanities labs
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our faculty are evaluated on not just research, teaching and service but also collaboration
Valuing the teaching profession.
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larrycuban.wordpress.com larrycuban.wordpress.com
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Many, but not all, told me that they had integrated technology into their lessons to “personalize learning.”
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“Students chose how they were going to display how they were going to master those standards through projects,”
A big part of both Competency-Based Education and the open-ended side of Open Education.
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- Jun 2016
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www.bluecerealeducation.com www.bluecerealeducation.com
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giving our kids agency
I think there's a distinction to be made between "giving kids agency" (as in, we bestow agency upon thou) and "sustaining an environment wherein kids can exercise their own agency". In the former case we lay out the choices and the kids pick, in the latter case the kids construct the choices and then choose. It's a subtle distinction and there are likely ways to see it as a non-distinction but I think even as a linguistic distinction it can help frame what we're actually trying to do in a way that leads us towards a slightly better world.
That comment aside (and I slip all the time on making this distinction), I love this point.
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And now we’re besties again.
I can relate. I have deep respect for AK but often find myself flipping back and forth between strong agreement and feeling somewhat off-put by what he writes. That seems like a healthier relationship to have with any public intellectual though than 100% agreement 100% of the time. I'm so glad his writing exists in the world and I'm glad yours does too. Seems like this kind of layered relationship is just part of dealing with complex systems. :-)
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If we don’t force kids to come to school in order to change their ‘mindsets’, why ARE they here?
To develop their own "mindsets" in a nurturing environment that values their agency and supports them in seeing and realizing the possibilities in their lives? :-)
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Second, this is a false dichotomy right out of the gate.
Amen. Systemic vs. individual approaches to improving education are absolutely both necessary.
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www.educationdive.com www.educationdive.com
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failure to find revenue and support from unconventional sources
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support.google.com support.google.com
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We do not support casting from Android or iOS at this time.
Good to know. Somewhat surprising.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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adaptive learning - a broad range of software and techniques that attempt ongoing customization of lessons for each student.
Ideally, adaptive learning is like providing a personal tutor for each student. It can also help a teacher determine which topics need more attention for individual students or the class as a whole. And it may free up class time that would otherwise be used lecturing on basics.
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opencontent.org opencontent.org
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We need to enable and facilitate alternative development models if our vision of universal OER adoption is to become a reality.
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www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk
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While the open educationfieldtends to focus onthe development and scalability ofeducational resources and practices, networked learningtends to emphasizethe pedagogical experience of learning communities and interpersonal connections, and connected learning promotes instructional designs for holistic, participatorylearning.
three definitions
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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who are the gatekeepers in deciding what that looks like.
perhaps a transformation is necessary here. To many (too many), education means grades and scores and standardization. Capacity for self-directed learning is more important and difficult to quantify.
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it can mean that students see themselves as actively building their learning
This is the heart of the open ed/info lit connection. If the perception is that students go to school to be taught, the more important goal of learning how to learn is so much more difficult to achieve. But fostering lifelong learning means ceding some control over what is to be learned to the learner.
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does “open” actually transform the way in which we do “school,” the way in which we teach and learn?
I think it can, but does higher ed want it to? Does anyone other than the open evangelists? The attempts at transformation in the 70s failed pretty hard. Maybe we need to transform teh public vision of what education looks like.
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Free? Open access? Open enrollment? Open data? Openly-licensed materials, as in open educational resources or open source software? Open for discussion? Open for debate? Open to competition? Open for business? Open-ended intellectual exploration?
love the extended list, esp. "open for discussion/debate" Most definitions don't get past "free." "Open to competition" is an interesting thought. Open to cooperation would be more ideal. What would the competition be? For-profits?
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www.hewlett.org www.hewlett.org
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Look for existing networks for collaboration that could be adapted to fit the strategy if formal networks are desired.
Work with OpenStax here on grant application? Could we somehow piggy back on their relationship with Hewlett and build for them their annotation solution--most recently articulated as requiring better teacher-student communication?
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ANCHOR INSTITUTIONS
Name names...
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OER must have the right metadata
Could h provide that metadata?!
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SUPPORTING ROBUST TECHNICAL and INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Possibly where h fits in...
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the Foundation will provide enhanced support for grantee collaboration.
We're already working with grantees: OpenStax, Lumen, Rebus.
Perhaps the OpenStax collaboration could get funding to enhance 1:1 communication within textbooks.
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the technical basis for OER
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robust and flexible infrastructure.
In so far as collaborative annotation might be critical to a broader OER infrastructure, then perhaps it does contribute to scale.
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Moreover, ZTC degrees ensure that the benefits of open materials follow students from enrollment to graduation, allowing for a pathway of personalized courses that guide students toward completing their degrees.
What infrastructure would hold this together, especially if textbooks are remixed and mashed up by both students and teachers. Perhaps an annotation system?
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Open materials can empower faculty with the aca-demic freedom to tailor their courses to their students’ needs and even engage students in meaningful learning experiences through adaptation and improvement of the open content itself.10
HUGE, especially the part about "meaningful learning experiences."
This is something Kathi Fletcher (OpenStax) alluded to in the edu board meeting: using h to provide a line of communication between students and teachers.
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reserve part of its portfolio to con-tinue funding the infrastructure necessary to support the field
This is at least part of h's play IMO. Annotation should be part of this infrastructure, not only for post-publication discussion but for production and discovery of such resources as well.
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Therefore, we refreshed our OER strategy to focus on our goal of using grants to help OER reach mainstream adoption.
This stage of funding is focused on scale.
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high-quality academic materials
Are tools "materials"?
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robinderosa.net robinderosa.net
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I hired a bunch of undergrad students and recent alums, and paid them out of my own pocket to assist me.
I did not know this. And I already thought Robin was a bad-ass. There should be national, philanthropic funding for projects like this.
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www.hewlett.org www.hewlett.org
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and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
Tools are OERs.
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and refreshed OER strategy.
This "refresh" was done December 2015.
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The infrastructure
Hmm, I wonder if this is thinking inspired by the NGDLE movement (from Gates, EDUCAUSE)?
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Develop innovative OER models
I suppose that would be us.
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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the frustration faculty members sometimes feel when searching for open content to include in their courses.
Annotation could help with this discovery, evaluation, and remixing process.
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thinking more broadly about what ‘open’ means and how open connects to a variety of different areas
Yes!
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Scaling Up OER
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www.ameqenligne.com www.ameqenligne.com
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«On entend pourtant peu parler de la pédagogie postsecondaire, même s'il y a des initiatives qui naissent à gauche et à droite. Certains innovent, mais ça reste dans leur collège ou leur département universitaire»
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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New Hampshire System Plans Open Education Push
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www.socrative.com www.socrative.com
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However, you may be required to pay fees to use certain features or content made available through the Site and Services.
Wish they said more. No-cost solutions are neat for one-offs, but pedagogues should be wary of building their practice on services which may start requiring payment.
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opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
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Teachers and professors regularly ask students to write papers. Semester after semester, year after year, “papers” are styled as the highest form of writing.
I'm not a K-12 teacher, but I hope this has changed to allow for more creativity in the classroom.
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we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is. And then we’re punishing students for our blindness.
I believe this has changed dramatically since this article was written.
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Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist
How can we modernize our current education to fit the unknown needs of the future?
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but the better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future.”
Or even a better question: How do we use these tools to help children learn, and acquire skills that they need?
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www.dailymaverick.co.za www.dailymaverick.co.za
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If the limitations are acknowledged and accounted for, there is no reason why open education should not offer genuine opportunities for promoting equity of access to higher education
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musicfordeckchairs.com musicfordeckchairs.com
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addressed the way we treat student writing as the waste product of assessment.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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“Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other ‘tangible’ factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does.” The ruling made clear that because this nation was founded on a racial caste system, black children would never become equals as long as they were separated from white children.
And I know that my giving up on integration basically denies the truth of this. When I say that we need to give the African-American and Latino students the best counter-education we can give them, I am accepting that they will always be separate and unequal. I don't accept that, but what can I do about it? This is inspiring: http://www.integratenyc4me.com/
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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recently cautioned against commercialization and urged colleges to take more control.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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Sakai development is actually accelerating.
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www.eschoolnews.com www.eschoolnews.com
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For many teachers, access to timely data that helps tailor instruction in meaningful ways is still a challenge, a Gates Foundation report revealed last year.
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timely
Time-sensitive, mission-critical, just-in-time, realtime, 24/7…
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listedtech.com listedtech.com
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Am I asking too many questions?
No.
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www.teachthought.com www.teachthought.com
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Artificial Intelligence will eventually revolutionize this practice.
“Resistance is futile” Personal-ized education
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies
This Systems or "factory farming" approach to education seems antithetical to (and virtually guaranteed to flummox) a community-based, engaged, serendipitous and spontaneous learning explosion in traditional Higher Ed. Where are some cracks and crevices where the System has failed to snuff out the accidental life of learning?
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opencontent.org opencontent.org
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talking about open pedagogy as the “second power of open.”
There are clear signs that some move towards Open Pedagogy is in fact happening. At SALTISE, last week, @Downes made it quite clear that Open Education is about openness, not merely about cost.
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talking about open pedagogy as the “second power of open.”
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many more people understand cost than understand pedagogy
While this may be true, it sure is sad. Especially as the emphasis on cost is likely to have negative impacts in the long run.
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- May 2016
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marketbrief.edweek.org marketbrief.edweek.org
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that OER can provide benefits to some schools, but that commercial resources will continue to have value because of the tech-based enhancements, in analytics and adaptive learning and other areas, that they offer beyond academic content.
Why can't OERs have the equivalent?
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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“curriculets,” the company’s eponymous term for embedded quizzes, videos and other multimedia elements designed to offer students a richer reading experience and to give teachers data into how their pupils were progressing.
As a teacher, I don't know that I want this prefabricated, though....
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articles and take quizzes,
And annotate, I believe.
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elearningwiki.com elearningwiki.com
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Competency-based learning
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educatorinnovator.org educatorinnovator.org
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identifying who or what body in the community has power to make the change;
THIS is something I could learn more about.
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adamcroom.com adamcroom.com
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To me, this is what OER for the web should start to reflect.
You mean it’s not just about the price of textbooks??
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Among students with high ACT scores, those in the laptop-friendly sections performed significantly worse than their counterparts in the no-technology sections. In contrast, there wasn’t much of a difference between students with low ACT scores — those who were allowed to use laptops did just as well as those who couldn’t. (The same pattern held true when researchers looked at students with high and low GPAs.) These results are a bit strange. We might have expected the smartest students to have used their laptops prudently. Instead, they became technology’s biggest victims. Perhaps hubris played a role. The smarter students may have overestimated their ability to multitask. Or the top students might have had the most to gain by paying attention in class.
I think it's humorous that ACT scores are considered accurate indicators of intelligence. Perhaps it is precisely the students who excel in the controlled conditions of the testing environment (no tech, etc.) that suffer the most from laptops, rather than simply intelligent kids?
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The West Point study has lessons even for those whose baccalaureate days are far behind them. This is yet more evidence that multitasking doesn’t work. Beware of people who take laptops into meetings — even “just to take notes.” They’re probably not listening to you.
That's very true. As more and more evidence comes out to support this, it is imperative that schools with 1-to-1, or planning to go that way, are mindful of when and where technology is integrated.
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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My experimentation with open pedagogy – and my attempts to guide students’ learning with/in and across open platforms – was a social endeavor that invited reciprocal networking.
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- Apr 2016
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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My name is Noam Chomsky, I'm a retired professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I've been for 65 years. I think I can do no better about answering the question of what it means to be truly educated than to go back to some of the classic views on the subject. For example the views expressed by the founder of the modern higher education system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, leading humanist, a figure of the enlightenment who wrote extensively on education and human development and argued, I think, kind of very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively independently without external controls. To move to a modern counterpart, a leading physicist who talked right here [at MIT], used to tell his classes it's not important what we cover in the class, it's important what you discover. To be truly educated from this point of view means to be in a position to inquire and to create on the basis of the resources available to you which you've come to appreciate and comprehend. To know where to look, to know how to formulate serious questions, to question a standard doctrine if that's appropriate, to find your own way, to shape the questions that are worth pursuing, and to develop the path to pursue them. That means knowing, understanding many things but also, much more important than what you have stored in your mind, to know where to look, how to look, how to question, how to challenge, how to proceed independently, to deal with the challenges that the world presents to you and that you develop in the course of your self education and inquiry and investigations, in cooperation and solidarity with others. That's what an educational system should cultivate from kindergarten to graduate school, and in the best cases sometimes does, and that leads to people who are, at least by my standards, well educated.
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www2.gse.upenn.edu www2.gse.upenn.edu
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A NEW FEDERALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION AFFORDABILITY
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www2.gse.upenn.edu www2.gse.upenn.edu
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College Affordability Diagnosis
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www.bcgperspectives.com www.bcgperspectives.com
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smart publishers will focus on how their solutions can support and optimize student learning and achievements. They will see themselves as participants in the student outcomes business as well as in the publishing business.
Publisher focus on content creation v student outcomes
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marketing directly to students, teachers, and parents, bypassing traditional institutional sales channels.
Does one need a consumer as well as b2b product then?
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Students, parents, and teachers are also increasing their role in purchasing decisions. They can choose from more options than in the past,
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CIOs who are weighing in on the choice of learning platforms and software
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urchasing often involves department heads, CIOs, and provosts, since the choices made can affect the entire school.
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To succeed, they will need to fundamentally rethink their value propositions to take full advantage of the digital medium and consider the entire educational experience.
And specifically the utility of various tools shipped with content.
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customization tools to “build your own textbook” from a variety of preexisting and newly created content
Seems like a great fit for h...
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texts embedded in the online course
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practical tools that supplement core instruction
Like, for example, hypothes.is?
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www.cengage.com www.cengage.com
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www.wischenbart.com www.wischenbart.com
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education (Pearson, Cengage, McGraw-Hill)
Top 3 edu publishers.
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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Blogs tend towards conversational and quotative reuse, which is great for some subject areas, but not so great for others. Wiki feeds forward into a consensus process that provides a high level of remix and reuse, but at the expense of personal control and the preservation of divergent goals. Wikity takes lessons from federated wiki, combining the individual control of blogging with the permissionless improvement of wiki.
Mike Caulfield introduces http://wikity.cc, a personal wiki platform in which editing is blog-like (it runs on WordPress), but pages can be easily copied and remixed.
I am particularly excited about ways it might be used to help faculty and students to collaborate on OER across institutions.
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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If, at the dawn of the web, I was to take a list of things the web would bring about and show them to a researcher, they might disagree on the level of interest people would have in things (what’s with the cat pictures, spaceman?) but there’d be little there to surprise them except for one item: the most used reference work in the world will be collaboratively maintained by a group of anonymous and pseudonymous volunteers as part of a self-organizing network.
It would be nice if on this day, as we marvel about the rise of Wikipedia, we could turn some of our attention to the Wikipedias of the future. Where are opportunities for this mode of collaboration that we’ve missed? Why are we not confronted by more impossible things? How can we move from the electronic dreams of the 1970s to visions informed by the lessons of wiki and Wikipedia? Some people might think we’ve already done that. But I’m pretty sure we’re barely getting started.
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philosophersforchange.org philosophersforchange.org
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Education is no longer viewed as a public good but a private right, just as critical thinking is devalued as a fundamental necessity for creating an engaged and socially responsible populace.
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mikecaulfield.com mikecaulfield.com
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Here’s the basic idea — slow & measured reform is often a web of unfortunate compromises, but its protection of the status quo generally preserves business regulation, at least at some level. Because this is unacceptable to business interests, business needs to create a crisis or scale up an existing crisis. It needs to make the status quo malfunction to the point where there is supposedly “nothing left to lose”. With the system reduced, supposedly, to rubble, economic interests can move in to “solve” the problem — if the public will only place its faith in them, and abandon their old public institutions and outdated business regulations.
Mike Caulfield summarizes Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and points out that it's being applied to public education.
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In other words, the solution isn’t to turn away from public funding for higher education. Rather, taxpayers should take some of the money they’ve been inefficiently sending to the for-profit sector, and channel it toward America’s underfunded public higher education system. There, the emphasis should be on emulating some of the flexibility of the for-profit sector while offering the quality of non-profit schools. That should boost graduation rates and employment prospects, and result in taxpayers getting stiffed a lot less in the future.
The key is that the public funding should go toward helping the higher ed system adjust/augment its model so that it can work for people who need a more flexible approach than the traditional 4-year system
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Asking What Students Spend on Textbooks Is the Wrong Question
Cost of textbooks and what students are able to spend.
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Convinced that big undergraduate lectures are ineffectual, Wieman long ago ditched those big performances in favor of getting students to problem-solve. He gets them actively engaged with course material, working in smaller groups. The techniques have become known as an evidence-based, "active learning" style of teaching.
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robinderosa.net robinderosa.net
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The University of New Hampshire Open Educational Resources Ambassador Pilot
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support.newsela.com support.newsela.com
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Newsela class link/code model for signing students up w/out emails
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blog.enkerli.com blog.enkerli.com
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Those with the highest degree of functional literacy aren’t necessarily those with the highest social status.
In precise contrast with school. In some ways, literacy is such a basic part of schooling that it’s nearly impossible to imagine other core skills (from numeracy to empathy) giving pupils and students any kind of social status outside of literacy.
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- Mar 2016
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www.ubiquitypress.com www.ubiquitypress.com
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The Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory
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www.seanmichaelmorris.com www.seanmichaelmorris.com
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Love in pedagogical work is an orientation. It’s a commitment to the personhood of learners, to their intersectionality, to their deep emotional backgrounds, to the authenticity of their lives. It is a decision to commit first to the community of learners and second to the material we’ve come to teach.
"Orientation" is a powerful concept here. At a seminar for Gestalt Coaching, participants were asked "How do you orient?" It's not only a question of how we get our bearings but also where they come from. I used to think I was oriented towards people and during that seminar I realized that it wasn't people, per se, it was relationships. Relationships both stimulated my most active curiosity and my deepest anxieties. So "Love" as an orientation speaks deeply to me. My content area (physical education) is my vehicle for building learning relationships with my students. Without the relationship, there is no learning.
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www.jisc.ac.uk www.jisc.ac.uk
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not to provide citizens with jobs. That's the role of the economy.
Not "provide" but "prepare" citizens for a productive purposeful life that includes a job.
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The product of education should be effective citizenship that is enacted out in the open
agree better citizenship of the world
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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After the 2007-2008 financial crisis in the United States, a growing number of those with investment capital seeking profitable outlets are seeing education — and educational technology – as growth areas. Resistance by students, parents and educators to high-stakes standardized testing and the Common Core State Standards confronted them with a temporary setback, but now they are poised to make an end run around the Opt Out movement by concentrating on “personalized learning” which requires a huge investment in computerization of classrooms as well as software. Along with this remaking of schooling, the powers that be plan a data-based reinvention of teacher education that will require the closing, or reinvention of colleges of teacher education. If these plans go through, a majority of the nation’s teachers and teacher educators could lose their jobs in the next 10 years, replaced by people who will largely be temp workers making little more than minimum wage. This isn’t just pie-in-the-sky thinking. It is happening in higher education with the switch to adjunct labor. I fear it is about to sweep through our public schools with the force of a juggernaut.
A dystopian future for educators.
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opentextbc.ca opentextbc.ca
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Open data
Sadly, there may not be much work on opening up data in Higher Education. For instance, there was only one panel at last year’s international Open Data Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUtQBC4SqTU
Looking at the interoperability of competency profiles, been wondering if it could be enhanced through use of Linked Open Data.
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2016.wpcampus.org 2016.wpcampus.org
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Open Learning
Could soooo imagine a presentation on using #Hypothesis with #PressBooks!
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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open – that is, to make public, transparent, and participatory
Neat definition of “open”, very contextual, it sounds like.
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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open annotation.
I'd like to hear discussion around the term "open" here. How exactly are you using it @remiholden? To mean public as opposed to private?
For me, open has specific infrastructural connotations: it's about a variety of annotation clients like hypothes.is conforming to certain wider standards so that web annotation--like the web itself--is an interoperable system.
But I'm curious the degree to which that matters to teachers and learners. And why? We're using hypothes.is, which promises to conform to standards being developed by the w3c, but could DIIGO do the trick even though they're system (for now) is closed?
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www.edweek.org www.edweek.org
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True personalized learning calls for a "rethinking and redesign" of schools, which could require them to overhaul classroom structures and schedules, curricula, and the instructional approaches of teachers, Mr. Calkins of EDUCAUSE argued. For instance, in an effective personalized learning model, teachers' roles are more like those of coaches or facilitators than "content providers," he said.
Of course, no mention of curriculum
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"Technology can help provide students with more choices on how they're going to learn a lesson," Ms. Patrick said. "[It] empowers teachers in personalizing learning" and "empowers students through their own exercise of choice."
And that is the problem, right...the "how they're going to learn a lesson" part. It's still "our" lesson being personalized for them. The agency piece is choosing how they get to "our" lesson. That misses the point.
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lorenabarba.com lorenabarba.com
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It reminds me of the New Math of the 1960s, which fashioned mathematics in a dramatically more abstract, more analytic way than before. And if Johnny Can’t Add with the new math, maybe Jenny Won’t Code with an overly abstract presentation of computing. Papert points us in the opposite direction
It’s a source of power to do something and figure things out, in a dance between the computer and our thoughts. The inversion, starting with computing as a formal thing to understand and then come to the application later, takes away its power.
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One striking comment follows a couple of pages later, where the phrase “computer-aided instruction” evokes in Papert the unappealing idea that “the computer is being used to program the child” — his vision, of course, is that the child must program the computer.
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In 1980, Seymour Papert published the book “Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas” [2]. Papert was co-director, under Marvin Minsky, of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1967 to 1981. Previously, he had worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva. Piaget was a developmental psychologist best known for pioneering the learning theory known as constructivism: simply put, that learners construct new knowledge (in their minds) from the interaction of their experiences with previous knowledge. Papert, in turn, developed the theory of constructionism, adding the notion that learning is enhanced when the learner is engaged in “constructing a meaningful product.”
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www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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Credentalism is economic discrimination disguised as opportunity. Over the past 40 years, professions that never required a college degree began demanding it. "The United States has become the most rigidly credentialised society in the world," write James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield in their 2005 book Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money. "A BA is required for jobs that by no stretch of imagination need two years of full-time training, let alone four."
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- Feb 2016
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Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?
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vivrolfe.com vivrolfe.com
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What do we know about sharing?
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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Framing our Open EdTech project
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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We don’t know if content will be interoperable – that is, usable beyond the Amazon (Kindle) ecosystem – or if there’ll be integration with other software systems.
If not then it really wouldn't be truly "open."
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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With more than 18 million downloads to date, Minecraft is the best-selling computer game of all time; the game’s free-form structure has made it popular with kids and adults alike. But little by little, teachers, parents, and students have discovered that the game can be used for educational purposes, too.
18 million downloads. This is a popular game. Parents, teachers, and students are using the game for educational purposes. This surprises me because I never though a game would help kids.
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www.psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com
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From 1926 until the early 1950s, US military aircraft relied on a "one size fits all" design based on average measurements of hundreds of male pilots.
But a 1950 study by Lt. Gilbert Daniels showed that out of 4,063 airmen, not even one was average in all ten measurements. They started designing cockpits and controls to be adjustable. Accidents decreased, and pilot performance increased.
Standardized education makes the same mistake.
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We have an obligation to help all students become the best they can be, according to each one’s unique constitution of abilities and interests.
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It is safe to say that the most limited member of the populace has potentialities which do not now reveal themselves and which will not reveal themselves till we convert education by and for mediocrity into an education by and for individuality.
-- John Dewey
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It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.
-- James Truslow Adams, coining the phrase "The American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America.
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medium.com medium.com
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The author almost realized the much more important conclusion of the fact he lived. He shouldn't conclude the article by asking "what is the purpose of studying maths?" and then giving an three stupid answers.
He should have asked: is this actually "knowledge" as they say academia brings to society? Is the money researchers earn being well spent? Did I actually deserve to be remunerated by this piece of work no one understands -- and, in fact, no one has read except for maybe three people?
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openedreader.org openedreader.org
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An Open Education Reader
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courses.edx.org courses.edx.org
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“ Whatever happened to Instructional Technology? ”. With this publication , he highlighted a nd attempted to explain the persistent failure of ICT to penetrate the world of higher education, despite several decades of effort and massive inve stment (Geoghegan, 1994)
This may situate the problem quite deeply in the history of educational ict and support claims relating to the persistence of this problem in the face of numerous interventions.
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www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
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One of the founders of Games Workshop, who helped revamp the computing curriculum, is to open 2 new free schools specialising in computer science, technology and the arts, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan announced today (5 February 2016) as she revealed the latest batch of this Parliament’s 500 new schools. Drawing on his experience as a videogame entrepreneur, Ian Livingstone will open the Livingstone Academies in Tower Hamlets and Bournemouth, which will provide over 3,000 children with a rigorous education rooted in STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts and maths.
"Free school" has a few different meanings. Here, it means a classification of schools in England that are publicly financed but independent.
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/free-schools<br> https://www.gov.uk/set-up-free-school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school<br> (various meanings)
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www.omidyar.com www.omidyar.com
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improve the educational ecosystems in underserved communities.
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the latest teaching and learning technology and pedagogical innovations that have the potential to scale quality across the world.
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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Hypothes.is reminds me a lot of some of the primary goals of the MeAggregator JISC project, as well as having a lot in common with other annotation tools (obviously!). The implementation appears smooth and reliable, and having just revisited it (thanks to a Facebook post by a friend of a friend), I wish I had been using it for a while now. I suspect it will be finding its way in to my teaching practice very soon.<br> This page on their site "Back to School with Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate with Students" has some useful suggestions. I particularly need to check out the private groups and sharing options, and investigate the possibility of collating annotations (potentially producing new documents from a set of annotations).
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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Discussion about Obama's computer science for K-12 initiative. CS programs in high school are about 40 years overdue. It is a valid concern that much of this money may be wasted on overpriced proprietary software, hardware, and training programs. And of course, average schools will handle CS about like they handle other subjects -- not very well.
Another concern raised, and countered, is that more programmers will mean lower wages for programmers. But not everyone who studies CS in high school is going to become a programmer. And an increase in computer literacy may help increase the demand for programmers and technicians.
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www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov
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educators and business leaders are increasingly recognizing that CS is a “new basic” skill necessary for economic opportunity. The President referenced his Computer Science for All Initiative, which provides $4 billion in funding for states and $100 million directly for districts in his upcoming budget; and invests more than $135 million beginning this year by the National Science Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service to support and train CS teachers.
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tech.mit.edu tech.mit.edu
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Professor Christine Ortiz is stepping down from her post [at MIT] as dean for graduate education to found a new residential research university.
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Ortiz said the university would focus on project-based learning and would dispense with some of the familiar hallmarks of university education, like the lecture.
"I don't see it having any face to face, on-the-ground lectures, actually," she said. "No majors, no lectures, no classrooms."
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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BCcampus as a whole is a research project in the eyes of our parent institution SFU
Good to know. Didn’t realise this.
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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Job functionOther,Marketing
But, but… Eric said it wasn’t marketing!
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www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com
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In 2014, U.S. based education technology (EdTech) companies raised $1.2 billion in funding across 357 venture rounds.
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explorer.opensyllabusproject.org explorer.opensyllabusproject.org
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The Syllabus Explorer publishes only metadata (citations, dates, locations, etc) extracted from its collection via machine learning techniques. It does not publish underlying documents or personally identifying information.
Searchable list of textbooks categorized by field, institution, state, and country, ranked by the number of times they found them listed in a course.
http://opensyllabusproject.org/<br> https://twitter.com/opensyllabus
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www.davidtinapple.com www.davidtinapple.com
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societies which continue their commitment to, compulsory, universal schooling insists on a frustrating and ever more insidious enterprise of multiplying dropouts and cripples
Pulling no punches...
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teachonline.ca teachonline.ca
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inevitably, to academics working as part of a team
What makes this so unavoidable? And why do these teams need to be so structured?
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bigthink.com bigthink.com
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Dweck’s message is that we can’t just adopt a growth mindset and forget about it, and simply praising effort regardless of actual progress is completely counterproductive. Successfully cultivating a growth mindset is an ongoing process that consists of teaching strategies for growth and praising effort thoughtfully, rather than regardlessly.
"Recently, someone asked what keeps me up at night. It's the fear that the mindset concepts, which grew up to counter the failed self-esteem movement, will be used to perpetuate that movement." -- Carol Dweck
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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learning “in the wild”
Is this the same as rewilding your education?
I like Terry's idea here to semi-privatise this conversation/annotation exercise by making this chapter available through his blog. While anyone can come here (from the wild) it is more likely to be found via people that follow Terry via other social platforms (semi-wild).
Learning in the wild~An all-seasons activity~For all the brave souls. #haiku
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medium.com medium.com
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Dea Conrad-Curry contrasts ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) with its predecessor, NCLB (No Child Left Behind).
- ESSA is 391 pages. NCLB was 670 pages.
- ESSA takes a somewhat softer tone.
- NCLB emphasized SBR (scientifically-based research).<br> ESSA emphasizes EBP (evidence-based practices).
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er.educause.edu er.educause.edu
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Moreover, the experience of building and participating within a digitally mediated network of discovery is itself a form of experiential learning, indeed a kind of metaexperiential learning that vividly and concretely teaches the experience of networks themselves.
With a wide open network, it also makes the world look smaller.
This is a great essay by Gardner Campbell. I'd add more notes. But every time I try, I start sounding like a crazed revolutionary. Like this...
Ask not how you can be a more suitable corporate drone. Ask how you can knock them down a few pegs.
The computer is an unprecedented partner for the human mind. We've barely begun to tap its potential. Stop trying to turn it into television.
Stop training kids to do what they're told. Teach them to teach themselves and one another.
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anthonydilaura.wordpress.com anthonydilaura.wordpress.com
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massive advances in Open Educational Resources
Some may be surprised to hear about OERs in a post about proprietary technology, especially since this was before iBooks Author allowed the creation of ePUB3 books.
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www.johnastewart.org www.johnastewart.org
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Using the Web and Wikipedia to make writing assignments more relevant and instructive. Includes links to Wikipedia tools for educators.
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www.gardnercampbell.net www.gardnercampbell.net
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How should we measure student engagement? Certainly not by using computers to force feed students fixed lesson plans.
Gardner Campbell's presentation at UNF Academic Technology Innovation Summit, November 2015.
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medium.com medium.com
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The whole organic nature of learning experience through the #walkmyworld learning events meant that I learned what I needed to learn as I needed to learn it. It wasn’t a top down dictate of learning outcomes because the outcomes were determined by the process. It is a revolutionary concept — yet as ancient as Aristotle. Learning should never be measured solely by standard outcomes; people learn, and I mean really LEARN, when they discover for themselves what they know, what they want to know, and how they want to know it.
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www.participate.com www.participate.comChat1
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Participate Learning Twitter client for education twitter chats. Choose from more than 150 chats, or request to have one added. Sign in with Twitter to view live or archived tweets, a list of participants, and a list of links that were shared.
Participate Learning provides categorized, vetted educational resources, both free and commercial, and online tools for curating collections and collaborating with other educators.
https://medium.com/@alanwarms/why-we-launched-participate-chats-5f1d0a61b2b8
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www.shanahanonliteracy.com www.shanahanonliteracy.com
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Over the years, I've challenged the notion of just having kids read on their own at school. (Or, maybe not so much challenged the notion as told people about the actual research findings on this topic which aren't so wonderful.) I’ve not been a friend to DEAR, SSR, SQUIRT, or similar schemes that set aside daily amounts of time for self selected reading in the classroom. Most studies don’t find much pay off for this kind of reading—either in reading achievement or motivation to read. There are many better things to do if your goal is to encourage reading than to just tell kids to go read on their own (a directive that sounds a lot like, “go away and leave me alone").
Timothy Shanahan of U of IL Chicago says we aren't spending enough time on reading and writing instruction.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Here’s what the Finns, who don’t begin formal reading instruction until around age 7, have to say about preparing preschoolers to read: “The basis for the beginnings of literacy is that children have heard and listened … They have spoken and been spoken to, people have discussed [things] with them … They have asked questions and received answers.”
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sites.google.com sites.google.com
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Calendar of education Twitter chats, with US timezone selection EST, CST, MST, PST. Click on a chat for more information.
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pressblog.uchicago.edu pressblog.uchicago.edu
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one wonders about the relationships between scholarship, technology, and the academic institution that engendered that turn from printing materials to printing ideas.
One sure does.
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chroniclevitae.com chroniclevitae.com
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College students respond to articles by professors about the pros and cons of lectures.
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medium.com medium.com
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Imagine if we could actively facilitate conversations between college-bound high school students and professionals in the fields in which they believe they want to enter. Wouldn’t this have the potential to dramatically increase a student’s understanding of the industry before they commit an exorbitant amount of time and money towards it?
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theconstructionzone.wordpress.com theconstructionzone.wordpress.com
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constructivism (Jean Piaget) - Learners must actively construct their body of knowledge, their schema, through experience and reflection. When we encounter a new idea, we can do one of three things:
- decide that it's irrelevant, and ignore it
- assimilate it into our existing schema
- accommodate it by modifying our schema
social constructivism (Lev Vygotsky) - emphasized that building knowledge is a social process
constructionism (Seymour Papert) - Learning works best when we are publicly building artifacts -- of any kind whatsoever. While communicating with others, we get valuable feedback, and learn to put thoughts in various concrete forms.
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medium.freecodecamp.com medium.freecodecamp.com
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“The key is deliberate practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.”
Peter Norvig's definition of deliberate practice, from "Teach Yourself to Program in 10 Years" http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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medium.com medium.com
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But my favorite part was the “get ahead” part of this answer. Because, to me, it demonstrates how Clinton — as a Presidential candidate — thinks about public education in America. Education is a scarce resource that helps some poor kids individually “get ahead,” but only if they demonstrate talent and ambition. Educating the poor is not a thing Clinton believes benefits the nation, it’s just a thing that individual kids can do to enrich themselves.
This is in response to Hillary Clinton's comment during the Democratic debate on Saturday, 19 December:
“I don’t believe in free tuition for everybody. I believe we should focus on middle-class families, working families and poor kids who have the ambition and the talent to go to college and get ahead.”
I haven't heard anyone mention that we can provide more education without paying an extra dime of tuition to any college. Neither schools nor teachers are necessary for learning and demonstration of knowledge.
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larrycuban.wordpress.com larrycuban.wordpress.com
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numbers have to be interpreted by those who do the daily work of classroom teaching
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despite having promised not to track students, Google is abusing its position of power as a provider of some educational services to profit off of students’ data when they use other Google services—services that Google has arbitrarily decided don’t deserve any protection.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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If Knewton were doing more of this, I wouldn’t be as critical.
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com bits.blogs.nytimes.com
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nearly $8 billion prekindergarten through 12th-grade education technology software market
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teachonline.ca teachonline.ca
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Hoping for interprovincial collaboration on the development and indexing of educational resources. Lots of potential and maybe a few less hurdles.
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www.knewton.com www.knewton.com
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purchasable à la carte
How many units of learning per dollar?
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In direct opposition with the model for most universities, these days. So that may be the fork in the road. But there are more than two paths.
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Universities bundle services like mad
Who came up with such a scheme? A mad scientist? We’re far from Bologna.
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perfect storm of bundling
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only unbundling health clubs suffer
There might be something about the connection between learning and “health & wellness”.
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Unbundling has played out in almost every media industry.
And the shift away from “access to content” is still going on, a decade and a half after Napster. If education is a “content industry” and “content industries” are being disrupted, then education will be disrupted… by becoming even more “industrial”.
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consumer choice will inevitably force them to unbundle.
The battle is raging on, but the issue is predetermined.
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edumorphology.com edumorphology.com
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Yes, my intention was to show the most easily replaced in dark and move it to the least easily replaced.
One linear model, represented in something of a spiral… Agreed that the transformative experience is tough to “disrupt”, but the whole “content delivery” emphasis shows that the disruption isn’t so quick.
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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customers become less willing to pay
There are a few key cases, here. a) Public Education (much of the planet) b) Parent-Funded Higher Education (US-centric model) c) Corporate Training (emphasis for most learning platforms, these days) d) For-Profit Universities (Apollo Group and such) e) xMOOCs (learning as a startup idea, with freemium models) f) Ad-Supported Apps & Games (Hey! Some of them are “educational”!)
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In every industry, the early successful products and services often have an interdependent architecture—meaning that they tend to be proprietary and bundled.
The idea that there’s a “Great Unbundling of (Higher) Education” needs not be restricted to the business side of things, but it’s partly driven by those who perceive education as an “industry”. Producing… graduates?
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Series of webinars on the pedagogy of Web annotation.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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More consolidation in the LMS market?
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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course design is more important than the LMS
In all the platform news, we can talk about “learning management” in view of instructional and course design. But maybe it even goes further than design into a variety of practices which aren´t through-designed.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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It is possible to achieve a more humane and personal education at scale
Important claim, probably coming from the need for reports which answer the “But does it scale?” question.
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georgecouros.ca georgecouros.ca
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The Innovator's Mindset, George Couros
- Observant
- Reflective
- Problem Finding.
- Empathetic
- Networked
- Risk taker.
- Creative = Idea + Action
- Resilient
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helmsleytrust.org helmsleytrust.org
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To combat this trend, a broad movement is underway to raise the performance level of American students, driven primarily by the adoption of the Common Core State Standards by most states and the District of Columbia.
mention CCSS
web annotation as close reading web annotation as promoting digital literacies
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policies aligned with college- and career-ready academic standards
code for Common Core?
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increase the number of college graduates in STEM fields
focus on STEM in tertiary grant making
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helmsleytrust.org helmsleytrust.org
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Active Learning
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discussion in the sci classroom v lecture
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Black Culture is Cool, So Why Aren't Black People? has received over 20K views. It was written for a freshman writing class at Cornell University taught by Dexter Thomas, Jr..
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Standards based learning and “rigorous” testing are not going to be successful in elementary school, unless your goal is to get children to hate education at a very early age.
Which reminds me that many people hold the belief that kids are supposed to hate school to some degree -- especially class time. That's warped, folks.
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Elementary school should be about exploration, and exposure to vast amounts of very well-written books. Writing should be an opportunity to capture observations and imagination in a tangible form. Elementary education should include learning about history through storytelling, art, and music.
Actually, this also applies to high school and college.
I usually enjoyed school, and liked all of my grade school teachers and most of my high school teachers. But if I magically became a child again, I would insist on spending most of my day in the public library, or browsing the Web, or doing something of my own choice.
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alliance of Moodle service providers that currently collaborate on Moodle-related projects of mutual interest
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wikity.cc wikity.cc
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In open education we have generally focused on the rights that individuals have to remix content, while not providing or using publishing tools that make it easy to fork content in ways that make sense to non-programming communities. Wikity attempts to apply the tools and logic of forking to WordPress, the world's most popular web content platform. Content published in Wikity is easily forked to new sites while maintaining an attribution trail and keeping track of past versions.
Mike Caulfield is working on WordPress software to make Federated Wiki concepts accessible to a wider audience. http://wikity.cc/ is the most recent result.
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If we look back to the beginnings of the university in ancient Greece, there was a struggle even then against a new technology – writing. Plato thought this new-fangled device would ‘implant forgetfulness in [men’s] souls’; it would destroy their memory. People in his day were taught to memorise thousands of lines of poetry and long speeches as part of rhetoric, the art of ‘enchanting the soul’. He thought writing was an artificial memory that would eat away at our natural skills.
Memorization of poetry and epic stories is rare in Western culture today. But musicians, comedians, and stage actors work largely by memory What are we missing, if anything? Verbatim memorization of long texts might be nothing more than a waste of brain power. Or if memorization is worthwhile, then books and computers can be used toward that goal, with advantages over oral transmission.
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Tertiary education must adapt to the technological changes that are occurring at the moment, from the way that courses are written and delivered to the way that students are assessed. This is not just because we will ‘lose’ students, but because what we teach will become irrelevant.
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It’s a useful term if you work in marketing, PR or business development – but I think academics and media students should be more critical. The idea of Media Studies 2.0 is quite funny; is that where the students collaboratively write the course material and give the lectures to each other? Love it.
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robinderosa.net robinderosa.net
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The goal of education is for the educator to become less and less needed for learners to learn.
The reverse of the typical “goal displacement”. Instead of focusing on ensuring our continued employment as “instructors”, we want to make sure learning happens. Deep down, we know we’ll find ways to work, no matter what happens. The comparison with health can be interesting. If doctors had an incentive to keep people sick, society wouldn’t benefit much. Allegedly, Chinese healthcare provides incentives for doctors to help people stay healthy. Sounds like it’d make sense, somehow. Yet education and health are both treated like industries. We produce graduates, future employees, etc. Doctors produce people who fit a pattern of what it means to be healthy in a given social context. There’s even a factory-chain metaphor used when some people apply “lean management” to hospitals or colleges. Not that the problem is with the management philosophy itself. But focusing so much on resource allocation blinds us from a deep reality: as we are getting healthier and more “learned”, roles are shifting.
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jupyter.readthedocs.org jupyter.readthedocs.org
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jupyterhub Multi-user notebook for organizations with plugglable authentication and scalability. Documentation | Repo
An asset for education. Using notebooks in the classroom.
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www.meanboyfriend.com www.meanboyfriend.com
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Among the most useful summaries I have found for Linked Data, generally, and in relationship to libraries, specifically. After first reading it, got to hear of the acronym LODLAM: “Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums”. Been finding uses for this tag, in no small part because it gets people to think about the connections between diverse knowledge-focused institutions, places where knowledge is constructed. Somewhat surprised academia, universities, colleges, institutes, or educational organisations like schools aren’t explicitly tied to those others. In fact, it’s quite remarkable that education tends to drive much development in #OpenData, as opposed to municipal or federal governments, for instance. But it’s still very interesting to think about Libraries and Museums as moving from a focus on (a Web of) documents to a focus on (a Web of) data.
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essentiallyshannon.blogspot.com essentiallyshannon.blogspot.com
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Tools like Hypothesis are the future of education.
Let’s imagine that future. What else could [h] do, if we were to make a wishlist?
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chronicle.com chronicle.com
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Encouraging students to curate their own content
Learners already create and curate a lot of “content”. Let’s encourage them to do more with it, even if they keep it somewhat closed. Much of it doesn’t have to be so high-minded, as even forum posts can do a lot to the learning process. “Open Education” isn’t merely about content and a lot of work in the 5Rs can be done in learning communities.
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if free textbooks or OER offer learners free access to good quality knowledge
Big “if”. And it’s one of those cases where defining those terms (“access”, “knowledge”, “free”, “good quality”, even “learners”…) is important but risky. We don’t want sterile debates, but we need to acknowledge that we may not be talking about the same things.
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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Some practitioners of open education have been dismayed at the recent emphasis on "free textbooks", which implies that cost-cutting is the main goal of openness. But it should not be forgotten that for many teachers and students, open textbooks provide an introduction to broader open practices.
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openpraxis.org openpraxis.org
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The limitations of access alone: Moving towards open processes in education technology
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www.irrodl.org www.irrodl.org
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Canada is unique in the world in that it is the only country whose national government has no authority in education;
Though it may be taken for granted by actors in the sphere of learning in Canada, this factoid can have a large impact in terms of “Canadian Exceptionalism”.
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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How do you aid recent high school graduates while at the same time dealing with working adults who are coming back to school?
Used to be the core model for Quebec’s Cegep system, a mix of high school graduates and “non-traditionals” (especially divorcées going “back to school”).
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open access
Not really what we tend to mean by “open access” in academia, but closer to “open education” than one might assume. It can be less about the cost of textbooks than about inclusion. And diversity.
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Non-Traditional Students: The New Majority
Education, she sure is changing.
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