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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 offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. To help you begin, we’ve gathered digital textbooks across subjects and grade levels—all are openly-licensed and free-to-use.

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The Primary Problem with Educational Technology

Iterating Toward Openness

There is much that’s wrong with the educational technology (“edtech”) market. It would be an interesting thought exercise to re-examine the traditional seven virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity) and decide what each of their edtech replacements would be.

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Underappreciated No More: A Free Edtech Platform Shines as Schools Go Remote

Edsurge

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). CK-12 is at the forefront of OER by doing adaptive and personalized learning. Our model was to be more than an OER aggregator,” Khosla says. “We

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using Khan Academy videos and exercises. The platform gives teachers and administrators the flexibility to mix and match content from a growing number of open educational resources (OER), to digitize existing content, or to build their own.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Open Educational Resources (OER) Products – OER course products are developed based on open resources and utilize instructional design and professional services. Interactive Textbooks – These are electronic textbooks or eBooks that come with various interactive features to enhance learning and knowledge retention.

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