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Patrick Tabatcher

Launch: Basecamp Breeze, the easiest way for small groups to keep in touch via email by... - 0 views

37signals.com/...ups-to-keep-in-touch-via-email

communication project-managment

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 10 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 10 Jan 13
     
    Looks like a good way to simplify communication for a small group (50 people or less). 
wlampner

Cengage offers new OER-based product for general education courses - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...duct-general-education-courses

OER

shared by wlampner on 10 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Cengage predicts that the use of OER -- free, adaptable educational course materials -- could triple over the next five years
  • eady to “embrace the movement” -- adding their own services and technology to create “value-added digital solutions that help institutions use OER to its best advantage.”
  • aking OER materials freely available online from sites such as OpenStax, Cengage has added its own assessments, content and technology to the materials, which will be delivered through an “intuitive, outcomes-based” platform that can be integrated into students’ learning management systems
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  • psychology, American government and sociology, and more courses in science, economics and the humanities will be available this fall.
  • some materials that were previously under a Cengage copyright, will be registered under an open CC-BY license so that institutions can adapt and customize the content
  • But for those who want to use the OpenNow platform, fees start at $25 per student per course. “The $25 is for the delivery of content that’s aligned to assessment and learning objectives, the additional assessments and videos we either curated or created, and the outcomes-based platform with personalization and analytics
  • many problems faced by traditional publishers -- how to reduce prices, how to enable customers to customize content, how to ensure students have their materials on the first day of class -- were problems that OER can solve. “So why not use OER to solve them?
  • s OER has gained momentum, more and more companies want to attach themselves to the idea of being open. But for each product that’s launched, we need to keep asking questions. Is it really open, or is it just being branded as open? Open is not just a set of attributes, it’s a set of values and practices that make education better.”
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