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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

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While states are mainly providing strategies and not funding, there is a growing movement to create innovative solutions like wi-fi on buses and community partnerships to provide wi-fi access at home. Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program.

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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. Over 1 billion openly licensed materials are published online. Education is Sharing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Campus Technology : “ Udacity has announced a partnership with a ride-sharing service in China to host a $100,000 prize competition to find the best machine learning strategy to improve customer experience.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades.