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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. K-12 learners.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

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In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

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Standards Several – Vendors produce tools that correspond with the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) , specifications that define how systems exchange and manage information about learning standards and/or competencies in a digitally-referenceable way (goodbye PDFs!). What’s Out There Now.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

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Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. OpenEd ranks videos based on an analysis of how students do on assessments after watching them. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

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Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. ESSA ensures that all U.S.

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‘Back to School’ Hijinks and Lessons for the Education Industry

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But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). So far, the library has since been accessed by around 250,000 teachers, who have made more than 9 million student accounts for the apps, according to the company.

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