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OER Cost Savings and Adoption Rates: New Methodologies, New Data, and New Results

Iterating Toward Openness

At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. SPARC started with a stratified sample of 120 US post-secondary institutions. The overall average price for all OER (both OER Only and OER Hybrid) is $17.32. OER Hybrid.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

But these are secondary causes. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. The teachers can customize an OER and include modules that they feel would benefit the students.

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The Pin that Popped the Textbook Bubble: Open (Notes for my 2015 #sxswedu talk)

Iterating Toward Openness

” Krugman describes a bubble as a situation in which prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future (2013). See Efficacy, the Golden Ratio, and the OER Impact Factor.). – the core content infrastructure supporting education is shifting rapidly toward OER. wikipedia ).

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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For two states, the digital transition requires an overhaul of the process

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Alison is an experienced secondary school English teacher, a Florida native and a graduate of the Florida State University. In this role, she supports the policies and procedures specifications for Florida’s instructional materials adoption. About the Host. Christine Fox is the deputy executive director for SETDA.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

That’s Rohit Agarwal who headed the K–12 education division after his math company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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Access State-Reviewed Instructional Materials with SETDA’s Dashboard

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A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.