The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. A committee gathers every Thursday morning in a conference room in the library to review these cases. “To All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The sense I got is that reducing textbook costs isn’t enough anymore, the advocacy has moved on to eliminating them. For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. library resources, traditionally copyrighted resources online, etc.),

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Policies OER Advocacy Education 99

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. For over two decades, CoSN has provided leaders with the management, community building, and advocacy tools essential for success.

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Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

They can be located in an empty classroom, the library media center, or wherever creativity and innovation can be encouraged. Technology should definitely be included within a makerspace, but it is not required at a level you might assume. Our makerspace inhabits an empty classroom, due to declining enrollment in our blue-collar city.

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Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

They can be located in an empty classroom, the library media center, or wherever creativity and innovation can be encouraged. Technology should definitely be included within a makerspace, but it is not required at a level you might assume. Our makerspace inhabits an empty classroom, due to declining enrollment in our blue-collar city.

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Survey Classroom Mobility Libraries 28

Learning With Lucie

MARCH 2, 2016

DesignSaunders’s story of turning his library into a LABRARY not only provided us with one way to bring more innovation into our schools, but inspired us to find OUR way to penetrate the barriers and create the change we envision. I imagine this played out differently for each of us. but here is how it played out for me.

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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?” ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more. Stephen’s goal is access for all. To me, access for all is a waypoint and not the end point.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

According to the CoSN report, the standard definition of hurdles is a roadblock that forces schools to slow down, prepare themselves, and then make the leap. Echoed by all four presenters, Dr. Schuler described how his district outfitted parking lots with internet and WiFi for students who could not access WiFi at home.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

It definitely made for a pretty horrible year and a half,” Smith said about the impact of a policy he called “both stupid and shortsighted.” And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s. It’s an odd thing to say their fully paid-for past semesters aren’t theirs,” he said.

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Policies Advocacy Course Report 117

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

While early adopters absolutely get excited about OER because open is awesome, “normal” faculty and students are more likely to get excited about the things OER let them do – improve student success, decrease costs, expand access, etc. There appear to be around 620 titles on the OTL’s various category pages.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. This allows students to automatically access an MP3 version of content added by the instructor into the LMS.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Lesson plans and activities Anti-Bias Tools & Strategies (by ADL): A collection of ADL's articles ranging from teaching strategies to historical info to topical and definitional overviews, all aimed at anti-bias education.

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Resources Classroom Video Strategy 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. .” $100,000. Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The New York Times tried to keep track of all the 45th President’s falsehoods this year, but it seems to have abandoned its “ definitive list ” some time in July. Google’s motto , remember, is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Naturally. .”

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