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Open Educational Resources Are ‘Moving Up the Adoption Ladder’ Around the World

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OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It It is moving up the adoption ladder,” says Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause, of OER. “It In the U.S.,

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

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Your school or district can also use digital textbooks that are part of open educational resource (OER) repositories. There are several high-quality OER sites that feature digital textbooks for K-12. You can save money to use in other high-need learning areas. These resources are free to use and available to any school or district.

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Wiley to Acquire Knewton’s Assets, Marking an End to an Expensive Startup Journey

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Founded in 2008, Knewton blazed its way into the edtech industry with bold proclamations about its adaptive-learning technology, which it then licensed to digital curriculum providers. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division. In its latest fiscal year earnings summary (for Nov. 1, 2018 to Jan.

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SETDA Names Dr. Karen Richardson the Recipient of the 2021 Candice Dodson Influencer Award

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The aim of the Candice Dodson Influencer Award is to commemorate the values, professional influence and personal contributions to the field of educational technology that Dodson championed every day, and to recognize similar qualities in EdTech leaders who can carry on this important work in the future.

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The 2018 ‘Horizon Report’ Is Late. But It Almost Never Emerged.

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Barajas-Murphy says that Educause is already starting the planning for the 2019 Horizon Report for higher education, which is scheduled for release in February, at the group’s ELI conference. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

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#infoequity @joycevalenza @elissamalespina @MrGtheLibrarian @spaul6414 @TrusteeMcVey pic.twitter.com/wOLIBDu1SZ — Renee Isom (@isomsideas) June 23, 2019. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. Here are our slides.

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Knewton’s New Business Attracts New $25M in Funding. But Some Things Don’t Change.

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Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content. We’re at a state where the quality of OER is definitely on the level of content from any publishing company.

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