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"Here at COERLL we value the use of technology in the language classroom. As open educators, we believe that educational materials and tools should be open. By “open”, we mean: easy to access, customizable, affordable for teachers and students, and created for the greater good of a community of educators ..." 
Oskar Almazan's curator insight,
July 17, 2017 3:25 AM
Here at COERLL we value the use of technology in the language classroom. As open educators, we believe that educational materials and tools should be open. By “open”, we mean: easy to access, customizable, affordable for teachers and students, and created for the greater good of a community of educators. Unfortunately, educational technology and openness do not always go hand in hand.
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"Britain faces a major maths challenge. The challenge involves a stock of people and a flow of learners ..."
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"Microsoft is aiming to break down language barriers by making its Skype Translator preview available to anyone who wants to download it. Previously downloadable only after users had completed an online sign-up form, the real-time translation application can now be used by anyone running Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 preview on a PC or tablet, Microsoft said on Tuesday ..." Via Charles Tiayon
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"Within the academy, signals of a scholar's academic influence are made manifest in indices like the h-index, which rank output. In open scholarly networks, however, signals of influence are less codified, and the ways in which they are enacted and understood have yet to be articulated ..."
Leona Ungerer's insight:
Only accessible from an academic journal ...
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"Working with the Open Education Working Group, a new area that is starting to show real traction is open education data ..."
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"Two radically contrasting emerging models of higher education in the US offer academics a very different deal, says Steven Ward ..."
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"Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a free and open portal for the University’s peer-reviewed literature, is drawing more worldwide downloads than ever ..."
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"There are many places to find open textbooks that have already been developed. The following resources contain existing open texts and other teaching resources that are openly-licensed and free for educators to use and adapt to their own needs..."
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"A massive shift is occurring in education. We have gone from analog to digital, from isolated to connected, standardized to customized, and fixed to mobile..."
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For the past two decades, I've worked on issues at the intersection of the education and technology sectors in middle- and low-income countries and emerging markets around the world. It's been a fascinating job ..."
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"Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now ..."
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"The National Science Digital Library is a collection of high-quality online educational resources for teaching and learning science ..."
Aubree Gibson's curator insight,
April 26, 2016 10:06 AM
AWESOME resources - takes you to other sites that give even more
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"A University College of London researcher discusses three strategies to open up MOOC content, and why going OER might help solve MOOCs' many problems ..."
Joran Le Cren's curator insight,
March 25, 2015 10:48 AM
While the opening of education materials is laudable, it is important to understand that nothing is free and designing MOOC is expansive. If I compare this to the open source software, programmers spend their time and their passion on it. Indirectly, they pay the cost of the software instead of the people who will use the software. It was very difficult to develop an open source software few years ago because programmers had to work in paid job at the same time. Now, business models exist where programmers can live on developing open source softwares. Problem #1: lack of pedagogy leads to low retention - yes and no: lack of pedagogy does not help but low retention is more due to the lack of goals of the participants. Curiosity can motivate you few weeks but not months. MOOCs are too long. Online courses shall be shorter, competency-based and driven by participant goals. Problem #2: design for several profiles and languages - sure it is important. But still, it is expansive in time and money. Well, some wikipedia-like platform can do the trick. However, while wikipedia delivers knowledge with up to no creativity, a good educational course can be highly creative. And it is harder to share freely. Take Flickr that share pictures, some are CC and others are proprietary. CC pictures have often a lower quality than proprietary pictures. Problem #3: Lack of funding leading to contracts with locked-down content - true but why platform providers and governments should pay for this? Taking the open source software world again, the companies are the ones who sponsor OSS because they have a direct advantage: they can maintain a high-quality software without R&D. Back to the educational world, ask the companies to sponsor the educational resources to participate to their employees' continuous training. Some other quotes : - "shall not require a registration" : IMO, both learners and educators benefit of the data collected during the online learning. - "it is a right for all citizens" : you can argue that citizens shall have access to content produced with public money but it is only true in one country. What about foreigners accessing content produced by this country's citizens money.
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"2014 study from Pennsylvania State University published in PLoS One that uses computer-science techniques to estimate the total amount of research knowledge available on the Web ..."
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"Eight solid, actionable tips for using tech in ways that actually improve the classroom ..."
Melissa Marshall's curator insight,
September 8, 2014 1:24 AM
This is a great article for keeping perspective in a tech-soaked classroom. 1. Put the learning goals ahead of the technology. 2. Opt for the open-ended. 3. Don’t let tech make learning easy. 4. Take feedback seriously. 5. Stay skeptical of individualised learning — for now. 6. Bring in student interests, authentically. 7. Start conversations. 8. Make it open, make it better.
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"All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a classroom or a coffee shop ..."
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"Students often have little choice over which tools they can use on their devices ..."
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"Following a conversation on the Intranet Professionals LinkedIn group last week, James Dellow did a great post about companies who put their intranets on the internet. James’ post outlined how companies like Royal Mail and Asda have a more-or-less open website aimed at staff, many of whom do not have access to computers during the working day..."
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