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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

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For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving. But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem.

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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. The World Wide Web has transformed how we access, consume, create, and share information.

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

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So he struck up a partnership with Cengage Learning, a Boston-based education technology and information company. For boosting student retention and success and reducing costs by embracing online OER textbooks Northern Arizona University. Wallinga saw his students continually stymied by gateway math requirements.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

The earliest learning management systems were portals of sorts, offering Internet access to and a browser-based interface for the student information system (SIS) and the data it stored on students and courses: student records, rosters, class schedules, and the like. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Engrade users can access Knovation’s digital content

eSchool News

The companies will provide users of McGraw-Hill Education’s Engrade, a learning management and assessment platform for K-12 education, access to the Knovation Content Collection with more than 360,000 online learning resources, including videos, white papers, games, podcasts and articles using a single integrated search.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Our onscreen testing is very reliable, secure, it works, and we can provide much richer data, and we can provide useful information back to teachers and parents. But the tests resumed the next day, and have been very effective since then. And it’s what enables formative and summative assessment to converge. to apply things to the real world.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.” ” Tom Vander Ark lists “ 15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning.”