Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-founder Micheal Feldstein believes that creating a common, open-source platform to distribute courseware can help make the materials cheaper for students and help professors continually refine their teaching. When authors chose to sell content, Argos will take a cut of the revenue. going to be layering on a service.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Department of Education has its #GoOpen District Launch Packet , and Open Learning has a free online course (about 15 hours) on how to develop OER content. In total, Open Learning has more than 800 professional development courses to support teacher development. How to find OER.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. I learned this the hard way!

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dean-Scott , Texas State University Key Statement: Cogenerative (cogen) dialogues are one learner-centered approach to engaging students in agency for their own learning and development in a course. The characteristics of quality teaching are often ambiguous. Image courtesy of Wix. 2019; Smith, 2013). 2001; Lang, 2021; Thomas, 2009).The

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When teaching a course on edtech, it’s logical to start with a look at how professors can select the best tech tools for their courses. For that matter, what is technology?

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 15, 2023

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching. But the organizers were playfully acknowledging the size of their project’s ambition—which they hope will spark a more data-driven and experimental approach to teaching at colleges around the country.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But he says his research into learning science has led him to better value how fundamental teaching and learning are to being human.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Here is a recap of the event, adapted from a blog post by NovoEd : Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean, IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard, dean at IDEO U , says her university’s imperative is teaching creativity and problem-solving. To scale this capability, IDEO formed IDEO U and developed the capability to teach these skills online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2022

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs. And the reason why this is obviously very important is because now we know how an individual student is learning, how maybe a cohort of students is learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. HabWorlds has become so popular that other universities are taking the entire course—the virtual fieldtrips, simulations, videos—and teaching it to their students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Just before professor Barry Spieler enters the classroom at Montgomery College to teach an introductory statistics course, he looks at a data dashboard and gets a sinking feeling. The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. The mission?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Source: The House Author and school design consultant Robert Dillon calls the variation in learning spaces—large tables, sitting areas and glass-walled breakout rooms—“micro-environments,” and says it’s similar to what districts around the country are attempting to create using open learning spaces and flexible furniture. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It’s still the early days for open education at her institution, and she’s found herself increasingly curious about how faculty can best adapt open materials to incorporate elements of the university's faith-based curriculum. Interest from students and faculty at BYU is growing, according to a 2017 study published in Open Praxis.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

I’m looking for a non-grade-level specific facilitator who is creative, engaging, can manage an open learning space and is interested in working at a startup school. Public and charter schools schools are bound to rules and even laws that dictate how and who to hire to fill teaching positions. I’m looking for a unicorn.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

Inquiry-based learning isnt just the latest teaching trend. So what is inquiry-based learning, and how do you use it in your instruction? Well break down the best inquiry-based learning strategies that you can start using today, along with high-quality, low-prep inquiry-based learning activities for any subject and grade level.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

Schools 107

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Thille: I am a big believer in using the data that we're abstracting from student work to benefit and support students in their learning, so we're highly alike about that. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Cambridge, MA— MIT is in the midst of a $1-billion effort to reshape how it teaches computer science, in what some say may be a model for other colleges. It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I A teach-in Tuesday night, titled “ A.I.

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