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Curriculum Associates to Be Owned by Iowa State University--For Now

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More than 6 million students in all 50 states use products offered by Curriculum Associates, which sells research-based print and online instructional materials, assessments, and data management tools, including its flagship tool, the adaptive assessment and instruction package, i-Ready.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

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Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. In contrast, many microschools today include mixed age classes but take advantage of new learning technologies to make the small school model more feasible. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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And look at examples of tangible rather than screen-based technologies that have been produced by groups like Paulo Blikstein’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today, we turn our focus to the characteristics of 21st-century learning itself. To kick things off, we’ll start with a clear definition of what 21st-century learning entails, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of its features and implications.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” The company, which provides public radio and related instructional materials to classrooms, has raised $1.55 . “For online lenders , it’s suddenly touch-and-go,” says Techcrunch. The Indian gaming company has raised $1.2