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Pearson's "Free" LMS - 0 views

  • Many schools are rethinking the LMS, not just because these tools have cost them a pretty penny, but because they're looking for ways that can further student collaboration and that can emphasize content and learning and not just administration. That could put Pearson in a good position to be a go-to tool for schools, particularly if the focus becomes content, something Pearson does hold market control over. As the Delta Initiative's Phil Hill told Inside Higher Ed, Pearson "wants to change the perception of an LMS to [make colleges] say: �Hey, that's a commodity, that's a delivery system � and really education, and the education system, needs to be about the content itself and how students interact with that content.'"
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  • drian Sannier, senior vice president of product at Pearson, told Inside Higher Ed that the new OpenClass can be used absolutely for free. No licensing costs, no costs for maintenance, and no costs for hosting. So this is a freer offer than Moodle is. It's a freer offer than any other in the space. And from the email I received from the PR firm handling the announcement, I give you these gems: "Pearson Launches First Truly Free and Open Learning Platform for Higher Ed." The tool "Provides Open Access." And this is where we need to stop and scrutinize what's happening here and look past the invocations of "free" and "open." Why would Pearson offer a free LMS? For one thing, Pearson doesn't need to sell OpenClass. Its emphasis -- indeed, its strategy -- lies elsewhere. Pearson is the largest education company in the world -- with or without success in the LMS market -- with profits of �208 million for the first half of this year alone. Its educational sales are up 9%; it's educational profits are up 31%. Much those sales and profits come from educational content: textbooks -- both print and digital -- as well as other curriculum offerings. (Much of the profits come from assessment products and services too -- Pearson sells the textbooks and the standardized tests. That's pretty damn lucrative, clearly.) Pearson can give away OpenClass in the hopes that schools will go for the "up-sell" and buy the company's other offerings. Many schools are rethinking the LMS, not just because these tools have cost them a pretty penny, but because they're looking for ways that can further student collaboration and that can emphasize content and learning and not just administration. That could put Pearson in a good position to be a go-to tool for schools, particularly if the focus becomes content, something Pearson does hold market control over. As the Delta Initiative's Phil Hill told Inside Higher Ed, Pearson "wants to change the perception of an LMS to [make colleges] say: �Hey, that's a commodity, that's a delivery system � and really education, and the education system, needs to be about the content itself and how students interact with that content.'" For its part, Pearson says that it's not going to lock users in to using just its content. But I can't help but wonder if that's true. After all, I think we need to question its usage of adjectives like "free" and "open" here. Furthermore when a company touts Google's involvement when really, what we have here is just a fairly simple and straight-forward integration with Google Apps, we should be a little suspicious about the labeling and the marketing and our consumption habits. More Sharing ServicesShare | Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on gmail Share on diigo var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Tags: <a href
  • Adrian Sannier, senior vice president of product at Pearson, told Inside Higher Ed that the new OpenClass can be used absolutely for free. No licensing costs, no costs for maintenance, and no costs for hosting. So this is a freer offer than Moodle is. It's a freer offer than any other in the space. And from the email I received from the PR firm handling the announcement, I give you these gems: "Pearson Launches First Truly Free and Open Learning Platform for Higher Ed." The tool "Provides Open Access
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    So interesting "No licemsing costs, no costs for maintenance, and no costs for hosting. So this is freer offer than Moodle is...than any other in the space" really?
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Blog-enhanced ICT courses: Examining their effects on prospective teachers' ICT compete... - 1 views

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    ABSTRACT: Blogs are used as a technology support tool in teaching-learning processes in contemporary schools,especially in higher education. This paper examines the effects of using blogs on prospective teachers'perceived ICT competencies and perceptions in blog-enhanced ICT courses. Both quantitative and qual-itative research approaches were used in the data collection and analysis processes. The findings indicate that most of the participants perceived blogs to be an important tool that changed their ICT perceptions in a positive way and familiarized them with ICT. The participants also perceived the use of blogs as important for the acquisition of ICT competencies.
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Why more schools aren't teaching web literacy-and how they can start - 3 views

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    Fourteen years after we first published 'Teaching Zack to Think,' here's a new three-part framework for making sure students are internet savvy
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Team Viewer is a remote desktop application for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC - 0 views

  • Team Viewer is a remote desktop application for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC
  • eam Viewer is a free application that allows devices such as the iPad and iPhone to remotely log in to a stationary computer.&nbsp; In the morning, I come into my office and set up my laptop and then carry around my iPad with me the rest of the day.&nbsp; By using the iPad, I not only have access to my wide variety of apps, but I can also remotely project my laptop screen on the iPad and make use of the programs I have running in my office.&nbsp; By doing this, I have eliminated the need to carry another piece of heavy equipment throughout the busy school hallways.
  • Team Viewer is a free application that allows devices such as the iPad and iPhone to remotely log in to a stationary computer.&nbsp; In the morning, I come into my office and set up my laptop and then carry around my iPad with me the rest of the day.&nbsp; By using the iPad, I not only have access to my wide variety of apps, but I can also remotely project my laptop screen on the iPad and make use of the programs I have running in my office.&nbsp; By doing this, I have eliminated the need to carry another piece of heavy equipment throughout the busy school hallways.
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No More Walls: Why Virtual Learning Is So Appealing - 0 views

  • Thirty percent of high school students and 19 percent of middle schoolers took at least one online class in 2010, according to a 2011 report sponsored by the national nonprofit group Project Tomorrow
  • Scheduling flexibility, control over their own learning and the ability to work at their own pace were the top benefits cited by students who had taken virtual courses.
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Using Your Blog to Help Launch a New Career - 0 views

  • It seems like everyone has a blog these days
  • just about
  • as many abandoned
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  • there are some things you need to do first before you post that first article,
  • WHAT do you want your blog to be about?
  • Technology?
  • WHY are you writing a blog?
  • To share your expertise?
  • To help others?
  • here's what you need to do next.
  • there's someone already writing
  • Do your homework.
  • about it
  • A serious blogger has their own website and full control of what is posted
  • Do whatever you can to customize the standard WordPress themes.
  • Did you snore through high school English? Good bloggers write well;
  • Post consistently.
  • This might mean once a week, several times a week or even daily
  • Those other bloggers you've been interacting with? Invite them to guest post on your blog.
  • be a guest poster
  • Promote, promote, promote!
  • In a land of 100 million blogs, you need to do a little shouting from the rooftops to get heard
  • If you treat blogging as a serious method of communication, you'll soon start to see the reward in terms of increased readers and worthwhile comments coming in.
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