Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. call this “the access hypothesis.”

OER 153

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 153

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Jon: Mount Ida is definitely part of a bigger trend, one that’s being felt around the country. Kirk: Definitely. Kirk: You’re talking about 2026, when we’ll see the number of 18-year-olds drop precipitously because no one was having babies in 2008, during the Great Recession. I sat down with Michael Horn.

Report 84

Report Trends Accessibility Advocacy 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Because, ultimately, if I don’t get assistance, I really don’t know how I will go about making this work … time is definitely ticking.”. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

Policies 40

Policies Report Comparison Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. The trend peaked during the recession that began in 2008, when UC hiked undergraduate tuition by nearly a third in a single year.

Education 100

Education Policies Course System 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Department of Education from provisions under Title IX of the laws governing higher education, which protects students from discrimination in housing, athletics, and access to facilities on the basis of such things as gender, sexual orientation, sex or pregnancy outside marriage, or having an abortion. They also make some other sacrifices. “If

Report 55

Report Policies Advocacy Accessibility 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145