Cengage offers new OER-based product for general education courses - 1 views
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Cengage predicts that the use of OER -- free, adaptable educational course materials -- could triple over the next five years
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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.”
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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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"Individualized learning environments are still a long way off" - 0 views
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Creating content is an involved process. You can’t simply take a textbook, perhaps in digital form, and load it into a learning management system, bit by bit. The material needs to be organized by degree of difficulty and learning objectives. It has to be grouped into modules and tagged to identify the information that is intended for experts, the material students are expected to learn, and the material that is primarily meant to provoke thought.
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Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
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he system might determine early on that a given student will find it difficult to pass a test. It could then offer materials to enhance that student’s understanding.
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Enrollment Reports | nc-sara - 0 views
A Midwest community college pushes for widespread use of OER - 0 views
Study questions effectiveness of online education for at-risk students - 1 views
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According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, students who are the least well prepared for traditional college also fare the worst in online courses. F
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Thus, while online courses may have the potential to differentiate course work to meet the needs of students with weaker incoming skills, current online courses, in fact, do an even worse job of meeting the needs of these students than do traditional in-person courses,”
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limited in scope
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Facebook testing features to let users teach online courses - 0 views
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Facebook is testing new features in its developer community that, if rolled out across the platform, could let anyone on the social networking service teach online courses.
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initiative, known as Developers Circles,
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The company is working with online education provider Udacity to create training programs for developers who participate in the circles.
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It's Actually Not About the Student | Higher Ed Gamma - 0 views
Born Accessible « Benetech - 0 views
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"As the nonprofit tech company operating Bookshare, the largest library of accessible books in the world, Benetech believes the time is right for the publishing world to seize this era of opportunity. We believe that all content born digital can-and should-be born accessible. We understand how to navigate this new world of opportunity-both by identifying the possibilities and working to resolve the challenges. Tremendous progress has been made when it comes to retro-fitting books, especially those that are primarily text, but as digital content becomes richer and more complex, the challenge of making it born accessible will require broader partnerships and technological innovation. The resources we've provided below are meant to help publishers and the myriad of other new, digital content creators understand the basics of how to make content born accessible. These resources highlight the challenges that images, interactivity, math equations and other complex features pose, but also demonstrate how they can be addressed. Working together, we know that accessibility can become a critical component in the creation of all content"
Dartmouth Learning Fellows | Innovating education in the classroom - 0 views
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Learning Fellows are talented Dartmouth undergraduates interested in teaching and education. Learning Fellows work directly with Dartmouth professors to enhance and streamline classroom learning environments. In class, Learning Fellows help facilitate group problem solving sessions, lead small group dialogues, provide academic support to their peers during lectures and labs, and promote deeper engagement with course material. There are several “types” of Learning Fellows on campus, each trained to addressed specific needs of faculty and students.
Turning Point for OER Use? - 2 views
USAFacts - 0 views
LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems - 0 views
Thinking Small About Online Learning | Technology and Learning - 0 views
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Understanding the changing dynamics of the big players in online learning is important - but I fear that these numbers may dissuade some institutions from exploring distance education
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An alternative way to think about online learning is not about scale - or even really about revenue generation - but about specialization.
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Online programs can be a vehicle to highlight differentiation. What school, department, program, or area of research does your school do better than anybody else? What degree programs are you most proud? What areas of teaching and knowledge creation have you build a critical mass of faculty?
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Freesound.org - Sounds browse - 0 views
Beyond Videos: 4 Ways Instructional Designers Can Craft Immersive Educational Media | E... - 1 views
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Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs.
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resourceful teachers and nonprofits like Khan Academy are still creating low-budget screencasts.
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et, until we get the learning design right, these questions about production values are premature
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BGSU's 2017 Teaching and Learning Fair - 1 views
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