{"id":414,"date":"2011-10-14T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/?p=414"},"modified":"2012-02-26T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T06:59:33","slug":"pearson-introduce-openclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/pearson-introduce-openclass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson Introduce OpenClass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting developments in online education platforms. Pearson Publishing who provides the MathXL platform I use for teaching online is introducing OpenClass. It is a new kind of learning management system that is offered through the &#8216;<a title=\"What is the 'cloud'?\" href=\"http:\/\/computer.howstuffworks.com\/cloud-computing\/cloud-computing.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud<\/a>&#8216; via <a title=\"Google Apps for Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apps\/intl\/en\/edu\/\">Google Apps for Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OpenClass will be offered free of charge. A beta version is supposed to be available October 18th. Pearson&#8217;s model is to provide and charge for curriculum content. However, other content providers will also be able to make use of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>For more details see <a title=\"OpenClass Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/pearson-launches-openclass-first-full-featured-learning-environment-thats-free-easy-to-use-and-scalable-2011-10-13-132500\">the press release here<\/a>. See their website at <a title=\"OpenClass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joinopenclass.com\/\">http:\/\/www.joinopenclass.com<\/a>. A promotional video, without much in the way of details, is <a title=\"OpenClass Promotional Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=W8Bm2o-pHWQ&amp;noredirect=1\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This development could very well be the &#8216;game changer&#8217; Pearson claims it to be. The demand for online learning continues to grow, <a title=\"Demand for online learning in BC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2011\/07\/25\/demand-for-online-learning-likely-to-grow-in-british-columbia\/\">here in BC<\/a> and <a title=\"Demand grows around the world\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nald.ca\/gettingonline\/trends\/growth\/demand.htm\">around the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting developments in online education platforms. Pearson Publishing who provides the MathXL platform I use for teaching online is introducing OpenClass. It is a new kind of learning management system that is offered through the &#8216;Cloud&#8216; via Google Apps for Education. OpenClass will be offered free of charge. A beta version is supposed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/pearson-introduce-openclass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pearson Introduce OpenClass<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,110,14],"tags":[62,63,105,44,64,65],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathxl","category-oer","category-open-educational-resources","tag-e-learning","tag-lms","tag-mathxl","tag-oer","tag-openclass","tag-pearson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}