eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2022

The curated, easy-to-implement instructional materials, combined with state-of-the-art screener and diagnostic assessment tools, are designed to help move learning forward for all students. Teachers have been working hard to get students back on track academically after three school years of disrupted education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

While it’s possible to build a complete course from OER, the finished product often lacks the scaffolding found in courseware authored by single author/editorial/product teams. There is a growing body of research demonstrating that OER can be just as effective – or more effective – than commercial materials. N = 8000 *.5

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

These are purchasing programs in which “institutions are signing up whole classes of students to automatically receive digital course materials at a discounted rate, rather than purchasing individually.” ” What problem does the inclusive access model purport to solve? The inappropriately high cost of textbooks.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Is 8th grade too young to look at police brutality?

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 12, 2018

How about a few fresh strategies for energizing your information literacy instruction and preparing your secondary learners for their academic experience? Thing 14: One-Shots & IL Courses. Thing 16: Discipline-Specific Instruction. Thing 11: Student Learning Outcomes. Thing 12: Working with Faculty.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The Instruction Tab is where you can see classes (either fed from your student information system or custom created groups), as well as create and assign instructional materials like Activities and Quizzes. There are three main interface tabs. The Reporting Tab is where you can output progress reports and export other data.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. However, faculty that want to use OER sometimes find that insufficient resources are available for the specific courses they teach. That horse is out of the barn.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The standards refer to the “indelible stain” of slavery and require that in fourth grade students be taught that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, along with secondary factors. Her team has helped create a dual enrollment African American history course at Northern Virginia Community College.

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Policies Outcomes Elementary Study 79

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Even without providing you the final tally of funding for 2016, I can point to other signals about what’s happened to ed-tech startups over the course of the last twelve months – their sustainability, their viability. (Or These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). Why, schools of course.

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