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Boston Business Journal Names Curriculum Associates a 2018 “Best Place to Work” Winner for the Fourth Consecutive Year

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The winners and their final rankings were determined by Quantum Workplace, which conducted an online survey of the employees for each company asking them to rate their respective work environment, work-life balance, job satisfaction, advancement opportunities, management, compensation and benefits.

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Report: 41 percent of schools are under-connected

eSchool News

A 2015 SETDA report revealed that many state policies have made dramatic shifts to support digital learning opportunities, and many states implemented policies requiring the use of digital instructional materials over the next five years. Seven states reported that they already have acted on implementation.

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How Library Closures Hurt Adult Learners as Kids Doubled Down on Digital Reading

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Now, a set of surveys from the think tank New America finds adults’ education is suffering, too, as public libraries closed during the pandemic. The surveys and accompanying report, “ Public Libraries and the Pandemic: Digital Shifts and Disparities to Overcome ,” find 15 percent of U.S.

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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

The importance of Retain becomes particularly clear in the context of the emergence of services like Spotify and Netflix at home, and library subscriptions to e-book collections, databases, and journals on campus. Even if the use of OER materials do not significantly increase student learning outcomes, this is a very important finding.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The company, which provides public radio and related instructional materials to classrooms, has raised $1.55 ” From Mindwires Consulting: “ e-Literate Big Picture: LMS.” Huge caveats here about reading too much into these findings, as it was based on an online survey of 500 women. million total.