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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free

Edsurge

But as soon as more people showed up to campuses in 2015, Tennessee higher ed leaders discovered a problem: Students were surprised by the additional costs of going to college. For families like these to take advantage of "free college" programs, “it will definitely take some education to build the trust of the community,” Marshall says.

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Seven Questions for Sandra Liu Huang, Chan Zuckerberg's New Head of Education

Edsurge

Work on the platform began within the charter network Summit Public Schools and was transformed when Facebook began to lend engineering support in 2015. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.) I am excited by that—and by how different our model and approach here is.

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You Can Still Search Thinkfinity’s Digital Content Resources …. Learn How

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. One example of a study with stronger controls is Allen, Guzman-Alvarez, Molinaro, and Larsen (2015). But that’s no reason not to share it. Why Would Adopting OER Change Student Outcomes?

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? And I want to do it worldwide.”

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What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Social And Emotional Skills’?

MindShift

According to the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, , a research and advocacy group, these include the “4Cs of critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity,” as well as “life and career skills” and “information, media and technology skills.”