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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. Surely a lot has changed!

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Data Interoperability: Beyond Accountability and Reporting

edWeb.net

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. More important, the data entry can seem pointless when the outcomes aren’t applicable to the students.

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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

Resnick came to Somerville by way of MIT, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in math in 2008. The two discovered a mutual interest in designing engaging learning opportunities for kids, and in 2008 they co-founded Sprout & Co. The post Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

Whether you consider people sharing billions of popular memes and photos on platforms like Facebook or Tumblr, or teachers swapping syllabi and lesson plans with each other, all of these materials are automatically and fully copyrighted by their creators and sharing them is illegal without a license granting you permission to share.

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Donald Trump, Thief in Chief?

The Hechinger Report

That her speech borrowed extensively from Michelle Obama’s at the 2008 Democratic National Convention is now well known, thanks to Jarrett Hill , the first to surface the similarities. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. Whatever my students can find online, I can probably find, too.