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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

Hapara

K-12 schools and districts are turning to digital textbooks for in-person, hybrid and remote learning. While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. For example, under “Math” you’ll find digital textbooks covering algebra, pre-calculus and calculus.

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

Edsurge

based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset. Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world.

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OPINION: What’s the high-tech tradeoff for students and teachers?

The Hechinger Report

In the absence of answers to this question, it is too easy for teachers and administrators to become unwitting brand ambassadors for companies seeking to integrate their products into the classroom, regardless of impact on student learning and success. Related: Psst! Sign up for our newsletter.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Providers are growing more features, each company or project following or leapfrogging the others.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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How Teacher-Created Free Online Resources Are Changing the Classroom

MindShift

The Liberty Public Schools district sees Langhorst and his colleague as front-runners in an important shift toward open educational resources (OER). If a teacher believes a lesson plan found online isn’t completely aligned with the standards taught in his state, he can modify it until he’s comfortable with it.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?