Reach Capital: 2021 ReimaginED Report on U.S. Education TrendsTony Wan
The pandemic forced the world to conduct the biggest experiment with online education ever. And what we've learned will fundamentally shape the future of teaching and learning.
Out of necessity, schools adopted online tools at unprecedented levels. But this will be the new reality, now that more educators, students and parents got a taste of how technology can empower and scale the best of human teaching and learning. It will allow schools to extend their village of support beyond the resources available in their communities.
This is our data-informed overview of the trends shaping U.S. K-12 and higher education beyond the pandemic.
Erma Anderson - Why Math Instruction has Changeduasdubai
Erma Anderson met with parents at Universal American School of Dubai on January 12, 2016. She shared research explaining why math instruction has changed.
Global Brain Power: edX and the Transformation of Learning through Big DataCapgemini
An interview with Anant Agarwal, President of edX
"Analyzing the Big Data from the students’ clickstreams allows us to gain insights into how students learn and collaborate."
Reach Capital: 2021 ReimaginED Report on U.S. Education TrendsTony Wan
The pandemic forced the world to conduct the biggest experiment with online education ever. And what we've learned will fundamentally shape the future of teaching and learning.
Out of necessity, schools adopted online tools at unprecedented levels. But this will be the new reality, now that more educators, students and parents got a taste of how technology can empower and scale the best of human teaching and learning. It will allow schools to extend their village of support beyond the resources available in their communities.
This is our data-informed overview of the trends shaping U.S. K-12 and higher education beyond the pandemic.
Erma Anderson - Why Math Instruction has Changeduasdubai
Erma Anderson met with parents at Universal American School of Dubai on January 12, 2016. She shared research explaining why math instruction has changed.
Global Brain Power: edX and the Transformation of Learning through Big DataCapgemini
An interview with Anant Agarwal, President of edX
"Analyzing the Big Data from the students’ clickstreams allows us to gain insights into how students learn and collaborate."
Starting and Growing A Successful Online Learning Program Blackboard
Learn about the most recent trends in online learning in K-12 school districts from Blackboard’s Practice Leader, John Canuel. Also hear from Stacey Campo, Poway Unified School District’s Instructional Technology Specialist, about the nuts and bolts of a successful district implementation.
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update Data and DiscussionBlackboard
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update, examines the growing student interest in online learning and how schools are meeting that demand. This report, which is the third in a series of reports published by Project Tomorrow®, a national education nonprofit organization, in collaboration with Blackboard, examines the Speak Up 2008 survey data collected online in Fall 2008 from more than 335,000 K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents from across the nation.
Through this report you will gain insight, from schools and districts across the nation, about why students and teachers want access to classes online, the current challenges faced by districts with online learning implementations, and how online learning presents unprecedented opportunities for meeting the needs of our 21st century learner.
More at www.blackboard.com/k12/education21c
Starting and Growing A Successful Online Learning Program Blackboard
Learn about the most recent trends in online learning in K-12 school districts from Blackboard’s Practice Leader, John Canuel. Also hear from Stacey Campo, Poway Unified School District’s Instructional Technology Specialist, about the nuts and bolts of a successful district implementation.
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update Data and DiscussionBlackboard
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update, examines the growing student interest in online learning and how schools are meeting that demand. This report, which is the third in a series of reports published by Project Tomorrow®, a national education nonprofit organization, in collaboration with Blackboard, examines the Speak Up 2008 survey data collected online in Fall 2008 from more than 335,000 K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents from across the nation.
Through this report you will gain insight, from schools and districts across the nation, about why students and teachers want access to classes online, the current challenges faced by districts with online learning implementations, and how online learning presents unprecedented opportunities for meeting the needs of our 21st century learner.
More at www.blackboard.com/k12/education21c
http://net.educause.edu/eliweb119 (recording here too - though I'm not sure if Educause requires you be an ELI member to see it - I think it will be open - hope so :)
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Cable Green, PhD, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @ Creative Commons, will discuss how, if we are smart, we will use today's technical and legal tools to build and share high quality, affordable educational resources with everyone who wants to learn. The combined forces of digital content, the Internet and the effect of Moore's law push the cost of storing, replicating and distributing educational materials, once created, to near zero. Open licensing allows this content to be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed so others may localize, customize, translate, and (most important) collect and share open data on the effectiveness of the educational resources to continuously improve their quality. Cable will also discuss how open policies, once adopted, make sustainability a non-issue and ensure publicly funded educational resources are open educational resources.
Reducing Equity Gaps & Creating Reliency with OERUna Daly
Textbook affordability and flexibility is more important than ever in times of shrinking budgets, enrollment concerns, and remote learning. Students’ lives have been disrupted and helping them get back on track to complete their education is critical. Open educational resources significantly reduce student costs and have been shown to improve outcomes particularly for traditionally underserved populations. Open resources also provide flexibility for faculty as they continue to adapt their teaching for unfolding circumstances.
Join the Midwestern Higher Education Compact as they host the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) to hear how higher education institutions can work together on open education policy, professionalism, stewardship, and sustainability across regional and state boundaries to find solutions to common challenges. CCCOER is leading conversations with regional leaders of open education (RLOE) to support statewide and national projects for expanding access while creating resilience and sparking innovation at institutions of higher education.
Presenters: Denise Cote, PhD, Librarian, College of DuPage; and Una Daly, MA, Director, CCCOER
Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
Open Education + UN Sustainable Development GoalsCable Green
http://sched.co/AF02
The world’s nations have adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG4 is about “Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” This session will explore how and why the global open education community can work with their national governments to mainstream Open Educational Resources (OER) in support of achieving SDG4.
K12 OER Collaborative for 2015 Open Education Week
Attribution to:
Jennifer Wolfe, The Learning Accelerator
Layla Bonnot, Council of Chief State School Officers
Karl Nelson, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Home assignment II on Spectroscopy 2024 Answers.pdf
Centralia (10-8-10)
1. How Digital, Networked Technologies and SharingChanges Education Dr. Cable GreenDirector of eLearning &Open EducationSBCTC
2. Let’s talk about the big trends & how to prepare for inevitable change&how Centralia can think in new ways to leverage digital, networked technologies…
3. Trends: Yes… we really are networked… seamless connection of people, resources & knowledge digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our globaleconomy?
10. So how do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI
21. System-wide tools, services, professional development Tegrity ANGEL 24 / 7 Help Desk Elluminate webinars, online meetings, office hours, study groups 24 / 7 Library Reference NW eTutoring Consortium Streaming Media Server Professional Development SLOAN, Quality Matters
24. “Distance” is about geographic separation. “eLearning” is about leveraging the unique affordances of digital, networked technologies to support new ways of learning in new spaces. Online, Hybrid, Enhanced
26. eLearning Growth …last 12 months eLearning up 31% increase of 7,307 FTEs to… 30,911 state FTES (“5 ½ Colleges”) All funding sources, all eLearning = 37,110 FTEs Of all state funded FTE growth: 58% of the growth was eLearning eLearning is now 19% of all state funded instructional activity
27. eLearning Growth …last 12 months Online learning is the most popular form of eLearning, comprising 65 percent. up 3,276 state FTES: 20% Hybrid courses (online + face-to-face) are growing rapidly. up 3,504 state FTES: 67%
29. eLearning Growth 45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid 23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online 16 colleges offer an AA degree online
40. English Composition I 47,000+ enrollments / year x $100 textbook = $4.7+ Million every year
41. The Old Economics Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student
42. The New Economics Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”
43. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? 2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
44. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies… http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf
45. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores. http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp
49. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf
50. Why do we Need Open Textbooks? http://www.studentpirgs.org/uploads/43/99/4399cfd2d96b17bcca8ef8041bd160b4/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution.pdf
51. WA CTC 2009 Student Voice Academy (1) CUTTING TEXTBOOK COSTS “The high cost of textbooks is a burden to students….” Top Issue three years running…. 51 Student Advocacy
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55. Why is “Open” Important? When we cooperate and share, we all win Faculty have new choices when building learning spaces. …the more eyes on a problem, the greater chance for a solution. Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks Self-interest: good things happen when I share It’s a social justice issue: everyone should have the right to access digital knowledge.
56. DOE: Definition of OER Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposingby others.
57. (a few) Open Content Repositories OpenLearn (UK) OCW – MIT (MIT HS) China Open Resources for Education has translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese. Rice Connexions
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61. Open Education Goal: increase access and completion by providing high quality, affordable, openly licensed educational resources. Good news: our system is a national leader in community and technical college open education … Open Education
63. But using open educational resources – and contributing to them – requires significant change in the culture of higher education.It requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all boats when shared. (p.11)
64. Open Course Library designing and sharing 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery to improve course completion rates lower textbook costs for students (<$30) provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses for our college system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. Open Education
65. 81 courses = 411,133 enrollments / year 411,133 enrollments x $100 textbook = $41M+ in textbook costs / student debt per year Limit on textbook costs in redesigned courses is $30. If courses are adopted by 25% of the sections in the system (faculty decision), the savings to students will be $7.2M per year. Savings increase with increased adoptions and/or when courses use free, open textbooks. Open Education
66. All digital software, educational resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License. New State Board “Open” Policy
67. All of this has positioned our system well to vision and compete for: Open Education Leadership
68. The US DOE and DOL will provide $2 Billion (over 4 years) for open educational training and education programs at community colleges. $2.5M+ per grant Open Education
69. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently launched a “Next Gen Learning Challenges” grant:http://www.nextgenlearning.com $500K - $1.5M per grant SBCTC was invited to help write the grant… and will be applying for and assisting college applications when the grants are released: Fall 2010. Open Education
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71. What are the kinds of decisions that will lead us to optimal use of technologies, content and talent to support student achievement for all Washingtonians? So what’s next?
72. Our system has strong structures in place to engage these big questions. WACTC (commissions / councils), TACTC, SBCTC, FACTC How can the system work together to successfully pursue appropriate changes? So what’s next?
73. What would happen to the quality of curriculum if all system digital content was shared and course (re)design was data driven? How can we use technologies and shared content to significantly increase completion rates? Questions
74. Pilot Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative courses… (article) Cost to Colleges / Students = $0 Questions
75. OLI Research Results: OLI students completed course in half the time with half the number of in-person meetings Accelerated learning study (Statistics): 33% more content, learning gain in standardized test 13% OLI vs 2% in traditional face-to-face class. OLI Online vs. traditional. OLI 99% completion rate vs 41% completion rate traditional. Questions
76. If we had free, openly licensed textbooks, how much money would we save students and state financial aid? see California Governor's moves in free, open K-12 textbooks Questions
77. What if all state funded educational content was open access? What kind of efficiencies could higher education yield? Simple idea: public access to publicly funded educational materials. NIH & DOE are leading the federal government to do just that. Questions
78. Hey Higher Education! We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content move to: "proudly borrowed from there" Content is not a strategic advantage Nor can we (or our students) afford it
80. What Happens if we Don’t Change? Harder to catch-up … Or even understand. Google, Amazon, Open Source, Open Content, Open Textbooks… Functional Possibilities Higher Education Time