Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. A bundle that includes access to its other online tools, including MyLab and Mastering, costs about $79. It doesn’t matter what a publisher wants to sell.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

But these are secondary causes. The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. 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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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement. The company acquired the K-12 publishing business of McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 2017. For openly-licensed materials, there’s Lumen Learning and OpenStax.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year. Teachers and students at one district are replacing print with digital. image via AP ].

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Autodesk provided more than 335,000 students and educators from secondary schools with professional software and services for use in classrooms, labs, and at home. Esri has granted 200,000 students access to its professional online GIS mapping software for doing projects. Are all U.S. districts fully WiFi- and tech-equipped?

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses.

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