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Elizabeth Crawford

How to Create Actionable and Sustainable Education Policies - Global Learning - Educati... - 0 views

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    How can states create and implement an action plan to support education goals? Over the past four years, the North Carolina State Board of Education has been analyzing and strengthening global education policies. This week, Helga Fasciano, Special Assistant for Global Education, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, shares their process, lessons learned, and advice.
Tero Toivanen

Times Higher Education - From where I sit - Everyone wins in this free-for-all - 4 views

  • The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
  • But while in our research we have no problem with sharing and building on the ideas of others, in education the perception is that we must lock teaching materials behind restrictive copyright barriers that minimise sharing.
  • Sometimes universities justify this position on the grounds that the open licensing of courses will damage their advantage in the student recruitment market. These publicly funded institutions expect taxpayers to pay twice for learning materials.
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  • Individuals are free to learn from OER hosted on the open web. It is, therefore, plausible that we can design and develop an "OER university" that will provide free learning for all students worldwide.
  • Working with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and Athabasca University in Canada as founding anchor partners, we aim to help provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credentials and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit services under the community service mission of modern universities.
  • The OER Foundation will host an open planning meeting on 23 February to lay the foundations for this significant intervention. With support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the meeting will be streamed on the web, and we invite all educational leaders to join us at this meeting in planning for the mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary institutions.
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    The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
Elizabeth Crawford

Global Educator Digital Badge for Teachers - 0 views

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    In September 2014, NCDPI staff presented to the Board a framework in which a candidate for the Global Educator Digital Badge would work with his or her principal to create a professional development plan focused on embedding global education in instruction. Candidates for the badge would be required to complete 100 hours or 10 CEUs of global educational professional development and meet a Capstone Project requirement within two years (including acceptance into Home Base as a statewide resource). Upon completion of the requirements, a digital badge would be issued to the teacher at the state level and the designation would be documented in the teacher's Home Base Educator's Professional Development Profile.
Jeff Johnson

The Rush for '21st-Century Skills' - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    It wasn't the weightiest observation, but it connected theory with the real world, which is exactly what "21st-century skills" -- this year's educational buzz phrase -- is all about, and why Manassas is trying to make it the core of its curriculum. President-elect Barack Obama (D) called for a "21st-century education system" in naming his new education secretary last month. The phrase "21st-century skills" gets 232,000 hits on Google. Problem is, not everyone is sure what the phrase means.
Lucy Gray

Where We Stand . Voices on Education - Video: Vivien Stewart, Vice President for Educat... - 0 views

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    Vivien Stewart, Vice President for Education at the Asia Society, on the economic impact of education policy in a global economy
Adrienne Michetti

Peace One Day and Skype open classroom doors to the world with launch of Global Educati... - 5 views

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    "We hope that the Global Education Resource will inspire and empower educators and students to join us and take on the challenge of helping to establish Peace Day 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and nonviolence."
Julie Lindsay

The Global Educator: Case Study 4.1: The Global Education Conference - Lucy Gray & Stev... - 1 views

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    Featuring the work of Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon Download the full Case Study - read about Global Collaboration Day, Global Education Fair and more!
Henry Liebling

Best content in Sustainable Education | Diigo - Groups - 0 views

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    "A forum for Sustainable Development or Descent or Decline in all aspects of education. Links to http://esd.escalate.ac.uk Sharing interesting bookmarks, resources, ideas.... Let us see what happens!"
Lucy Gray

Learn about CC during Open Education Week - Creative Commons - 6 views

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    As most of you are undoubtedly aware, next week, 5-10 March, is the First Annual Open Education Week - a time set aside each year to celebrate and raise awareness about open education and open educational resources (OER).
Lucy Gray

Providence Day Third Annual Global Educators Conference at La Jolla Country D... - 3 views

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    I recently had the privilege of attending the annual Global Educators Conference at La Jolla. I wrote about the experience on my blog. I thought I would share here as I also posted many of the resources we encountered. 
Lucy Gray

Teaching the World - 0 views

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    article about global education and schools of education from NAFSA
anonymous

Picasa in education - Group | Diigo - 1 views

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    We share resources for education in picasa. Compartimos recursos para la educación en Picasa. Compartim recursos educatius a Picasa.
Tero Toivanen

"Reboelje!" - Invisible Learning in the Netherlands | Education Futures - 0 views

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    The purpose of the Invisible Learning Tour is to raise awareness for the need for innovation in education.
Elizabeth Crawford

One Globe Kids - 1 views

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    One Globe Kids lets students meet new friends online or on their iPad or iPhone. The free Globe Smart Education app presents memorable daily-life stories from youth around the world to help children in kindergarten through grade 5 gain cultural understanding, learn about other countries, and make comparisons to their own lives. The stories reflect the lives of children in Israel, Palestine, The Netherlands, Norway, Haiti, Indonesia, New York City, Burundi, and more. Students can visit Valdo in Haiti right away and then travel the world via in-app purchases ranging from $1.99 to $15.99, per friend. Real stories from around the globe are told child to child, with full-color photographs and narration. Students can record themselves speaking and counting in their friend's language. They can choose an "Adventure" story and decide how they want to interact with their new friends, and they can record a conversation with the "Tell me about yourself" feature. Students also learn interesting facts about each country they visit and enhance their knowledge of geography by putting themselves and their friends and family on the globe and seeing where they are in relation to their new friends. The Globe Smart Education app also includes in-depth teaching supports that will get students moving and thinking.
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