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Using open educational resources to empower differentiated instruction

Hapara

Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. This use case is the perfect example of when OER can come to the rescue. So what does that mean? What is differentiation? Addressing reading levels.

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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

It also helps schools reach goals like higher student success, better data analysis, more robust cybersecurity and easier access to education technology, the report’s authors explain. Utah teachers are now not only able to keep tabs on how students develop, but they can better develop personalized learning initiatives.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. These arrangements bring in key financial support to OpenStax. Now, it’s coming for courseware.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. Tagged on: August 16, 2017 You Need Data to Personalize Learning | Data Quality Campaign → They need data to personalize learning. Not all of these things can be true.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” Emmersion Learning has raised $600,000 from Zylun Global and Access to Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Department of Veterans Affairs this week backed Ashford University ‘s attempt to shift its state-based eligibility for veterans’ benefits from Iowa to Arizona , likely preserving the for-profit university’s access to Post–9/11 GI Bill and active-duty military tuition benefits.” ” asks Mark Guzdial.