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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012. Effective Advocacy. They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. And it’s this kind of thinking that I have worried will destroy our movement since 2012. (If

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ” he asks. Manufacturing Trends.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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Why Getting Help for Kids with Dyslexia is Difficult

MindShift

That’s one reason schools have avoided using the word dyslexia, according to Fran Bowman, a former special education teacher who now runs an educational services company that works with school districts to train teachers. Whole language was big in the 1920s, for example, as progressive education became influential.