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  • Sociologist Turned Educational Technologist Joins EdTechTeam

    Sociologist Turned Educational Technologist Joins EdTechTeam

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    updated: Oct 3, 2017

    EdTechTeam, the global leader in Google for Education training and innovative professional development, today announced a recent addition to the company’s Programs team to meet the needs of a growing division supporting large impact projects with partners. Dee Lanier, a long-time featured speaker and keynote for the EdTechTeam Summits program, has been hired as a Program Coordinator to support the team’s innovative programs, such as the Dynamic Learning Project with Google for Education and Digital Promise

    “We’re excited to have Dee Lanier on the team, he excels at inspiring educators, his voice and ideas are well respected, and he has proven he can empower others to make lasting change in their schools,” says Mark Wagner, EdTechTeam Founder and CEO. “His experience developing programs for educators will help support EdTechTeam’s capacity as we expand our efforts to support large impact projects across the globe.”

    We’re excited to have Dee Lanier on the team…he excels at inspiring educators, his voice and ideas are well respected, and he has proven he can empower others to make lasting change in their schools.

    Mark Wagner, CEO and Founder, EdTechTeam

    Originally from Southern California, “Sociologist turned Technologist,” Dee Lanier is a passionate and energetic educator and learner with over a decade of instructional experience at both the K-12 and collegiate level. Dee holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in Sociology with special interests in education, race relations, and inequality. Most recently, Dee served on the board of Charlotte Lab School then worked as the school’s STEM Specialist and Tech Coach. “Over the years I would work dozens of times with EdTechTeam on inspiring professional development for educators across the globe. Now I get to work with the team more directly and continue to share my passion for digital equity, student agency, and creativity in the classroom. I truly feel blessed beyond measure,” said Lanier.

    About EdTechTeam
    EdTechTeam, a California Benefit Corporation, is a global network of educational technologists with a mission is to improve the world’s education systems using the best learning principles and technology available. With 37 employees and more than 200 contractors, most of which are practicing or former educators, EdTechTeam operates in 32 states and 23 countries on six continents with local subsidiaries in Canada, Australia, Mexico, and the UK), producing professional development experiences in 9 languages for over 50 thousand educators face-to-face per year. 

    The core team of world-class instructional leaders works closely with schools and districts around the globe to effectively and appropriately implement positive school change. EdTechTeam aims to inspire and empower educators to design the best possible personalized learning experience for students. 

    EdTechTeam is an official Google for Education Professional Development Partner. Having been involved in producing the Google Teacher Academy from its inception in 2006 through the most recent iteration of the Innovation Academy in 2016, the team is best known for their series of Summits featuring Google for Education, with over 350 conference-style events produced to date since July 2012. Through a Custom Learning program, more than 500 smaller (mostly workshop style) events will be delivered in 2017 as well.

    As a founding member of the Future Ready Schools Coalition, EdTechTeam also helps schools develop capacity in six areas key to successful school change: courageous leadership, empowered teachers, student agency, inspiring spaces, robust infrastructure, and engaged community.

    Source: EdTechTeam, Inc.

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  • Lyryx Joins BCcampus Open Textbook Collection

    Lyryx Joins BCcampus Open Textbook Collection

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    updated: Apr 4, 2017

    The Lyryx with Open Texts collection is now available through the BCcampus repositories to be shared openly with Instructors globally.

    BCcampus is recognized as a leader of Open Educational Resource development in Canada and worldwide.  The BC Open Textbook Collection now holds over 180 open textbooks in 8 main and 36 secondary subject areas.  By providing the public with approved open material, BCcampus enables access to freely available content, information and data that is an essential component of an improved learning environment – for students as well as instructors.

    “Advocates of OER are working towards a shared goal of making education open and accessible to all. We feel that we are one step closer to that mission with sharing our open texts on the BCcampus repositories.”

    Dr. Claude Laflamme, Founder and CEO, Lyryx Learning

    ​Lyryx is honoured to provide their open textbooks alongside this growing collection of high quality resources.  Lyryx will continue to support open and affordable learning material in order to provide support of instructors with OER.

    “We hope that by aligning with like-minded organizations like BCcampus, Lyryx with Open Texts will be even more accessible for instructors to use,” says Claude Laflamme, Founder and CEO of Lyryx Learning.  “Advocates of OER are working towards a shared goal of making education open and accessible to all.  We feel that we are one step closer to that mission with sharing our open texts on the BCcampus repositories.”

    Lyryx contributes several open textbooks to the BCcampus collection, all openly licensed with Creative Commons licenses. These texts include the subject areas of mathematics, business, and economics. The business and economics texts were written by Canadian authors giving a unique and important perspective on their respective disciplines.

    To find out more about Lyryx Learning, visit: http://lyryx.com/

    About Lyryx Learning

    Lyryx Learning is an open educational resources (OER) company based in Calgary, Alberta that began in the Mathematics department at the University of Calgary.  Lyryx was established in 2000 and is supporting Instructors across Canada by sustaining OER and developing adaptable, accessible and affordable resources for higher education.  Lyryx provides quality OER and service including open texts, assessments, supplements and support in the subjects of: Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting and Economics.  Lyryx offers a modern model strengthening open educational resources, providing excellent materials and services to students at an affordable price. We are advancing learning as champions of access to knowledge.

    For more information contact:
    Tamsyn Murnaghan
    Director of Client Services for Lyryx Learning
    W: 877-670-6726 ext.222
    tamsyn@lyryx.com

    Source: Lyryx Learning Inc.

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