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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”

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Educators Like Their Curricula More When the Training Is Good, Survey Finds

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It considered all adoption types, from traditional publishers, to local curriculum creation, to open educational resources (OER). Note: This survey was conducted in fall 2019, before COVID-19 transformed K-12 education and forced nearly every school in the U.S. Below are three takeaways from the report. Clear and obvious patterns are.

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League Districts Take on Major Challenges Together

Digital Promise

Digital Promise has launched five Challenge Collaboratives centered on Challenge Map topics: Real World Learning, Assessment Data Interoperability, Computational Thinking Pathways, OER Deeper Learning for NGSS, and Computational Thinking for NGSS.

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The League of Innovative Schools’ 12 Days of Innovation

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We hope to visit even more districts in 2019! Kim Smith, Executive Director of the League of Innovative Schools, visits the Academies of Loudoun, one of the school visit sites of the fall 2019 League of Innovative Schools meeting. 3 District Data Interoperability Videos. 10 Education Conferences.

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More College Students Are Downloading Course Materials for Free—Or Skipping Them Entirely

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Use of free course materials among college students is up, with 22 percent downloading at least one such resource during the spring 2019 semester, according to research published Wednesday by the National Association of College Stores. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER.

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There’s Only One Person Whose Opinion About NC Really Matters

Iterating Toward Openness

Hey #OER gurus, rec’d a question about #CreativeCommons BY-NC license & trepidation re using NC stuff specifically in publicly-funded colleges & universities. Stella Maris Bastone (@StellaBastone) February 15, 2019. ” Actually, we have data on that. You may protest, “But those data are a decade old!

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