Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July. In July, the company launched the Educator Exchange , an online subscription marketplace where faculty can sell their resources to one another.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Just ask Jessica Reid Sliwerski, CEO of Open Up Resources. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. It’s a coexistence.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

McGraw-Hill calls the approach “Inclusive Access,” and stresses that research shows that students who have course materials from day one of a class do better than those who put off or skip getting them altogether. The textbook cost $150, and the access code for the accompanying digital system was another $100.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Merriam-Webster Dictionary ( iOS and Android ) Merriam-Webster’s app is a vital resource for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building. The inclusion of offline access is a significant advantage, ensuring that learning is uninterrupted even in the absence of an internet connection.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

Rather than giving out a default collection of chapters in every eBook, let them choose their own learning resources and create personalized learning materials. Companies like Chegg, eFollett, and BookRenter are offering new textbooks on rent for less than the price of a used book.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

This includes traditional handwritten notes, collecting multimedia resources, and the ever-popular drill. There’s an easy-to-access setting that allows you to use your finger as an eraser. Brainscape is accessible from desktops, smartphones, and tablets and synced across all devices when the user creates an account.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Through this deal, Nearpod will add one of the more unique, coveted collections of online educational resources to its library. Its biggest institutional shareholder is Insight Venture Partners, a private equity firm whose education portfolio also includes Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight—three companies that have gone public.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

With so many powerful resources out there it can be hard to decide which ones will suit your classroom or school setting best. The apps I collected for you in this post can be a great resource for teaching and learning in the classroom, and provide a great way for teachers and students to work together more effectively.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, content offered by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable. the edtech “unicorn” and homework help site.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. If someone hasn't accessed the material in seven days, that may be a yellow flag indicator to ask, ‘Is everything OK?’” Kaji says. “It

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

They’re guided in that process with a coach who’s there to keep them accountable, connect them to resources and mentors as they go through that process so they’re aware of their own development. Today’s professors can utilize a wide range of different resources to put out information for their course.

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

The model is designed to equitably allocate local, state and federal resources based on student needs.” Via NPR : “‘Access to Literacy ’ Is Not a Constitutional Right , Judge in Detroit Rules.” Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 A video went viral; Pruitt has since resigned.

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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. They recorded school resource officers. Um, they do.)

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