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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

For boosting student retention and success and reducing costs by embracing online OER textbooks Northern Arizona University. For introducing a flipped-classroom chemistry curriculum that has cut student costs and boosted student success with online instruction and homework Oregon State University. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The Flipped Classroom". He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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