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Tailor-ED Raises $1.6 Million to Bring Differentiated OER to More Students

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Not everything she found was useful or reliable, as is the case for most web searches, so she took time to vet each exercise. Now, Rouse no longer needs to search for exercises outside of work. “It After each lesson, students complete exit ticket assessments for subject mastery and social-emotional learning indicators.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. Distributing digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

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For Kiddom, the deal marks a big step in its effort to create a one-stop shop for all of the instructional tools used in K-12 classrooms and “help bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” says its chief academic officer Abbas Manjee. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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Part 4: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Math

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MIT Blossoms – All of the lessons in the MIT Blossoms library have been contributed by BLOSSOMS partners from around the world. Find standards-aligned content and assign practice exercises, videos and articles. OER Commons Math – This is a large collection of online resources that are part of the open education resource field.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Everything Old is New Again: Textbooks, The Printing Press, The Internet, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Leonhardt explains: In many cases, several different [modern] libraries conserve copies of the same printed text, whereby the handwritten notes found in each copy are literally identical or very nearly so (p. Here’s a version of the exercise I recorded with my son John. Wait for it… . Everything Old is New… Again.

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

Educational materials published under an open license are called open educational resources (OER). When digital educational materials become OER, they are converted back into public goods. Instructional designers, faculty, and other educators and administrators should develop a basic understanding of OER. Education is Sharing.

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