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.

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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. David Wiley, a longtime textbook researcher and advocate for open educational resources, says many faculty still latch on to print—and for some good reasons.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

The district provides a personal iPad for every teacher, middle and high school student, and teachers’ lessons include a mix of purchased and free online resources. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. 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. The company is about 60% of the way there, and says it will continue to distribute licenses into 2017. 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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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Ismael tweeted: My own take: these are two complementary approaches to #OER that should enrich each other, not exclude (or even blame) each other. As someone concerned with equality, I like #OER as a way to make teaching cheaper.

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