Marketplace K-12

APRIL 4, 2019

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) found that more states are providing guidance to help districts select and implement digital instructional materials. The post States Are Playing a Bigger Role in Digital Instruction, Survey Finds appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

It is the first curriculum made openly available by Open Up Resources, which was founded to develop new high-quality alternatives to curricula offered by traditional publishers, and to increase equity in education by distributing these materials freely, as OER.

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OER Resources Kaplan Instructional Materials 85

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

Annual survey outlines broadband, instructional materials, student data privacy as top among school IT leaders’ concerns. Broadband and network capacity is school technology leaders’ top priority, according to the results of an annual IT leadership survey from CoSN.

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Student Data Privacy Broadband OER Instructional Materials 40

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Back in 2014, our interviews and surveys led us to a taxonomy of digital curation. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. That was just one of the many findings in the survey, perhaps the largest annual sampling of the views of campus IT officials. IT leaders’ No.

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Report Survey OER Education 28

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Because there aren’t many alternatives, they did this despite concerns about the quality of materials. Photo: Jackie Mader. Now is the time of year when U.S.

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Resources Instructional Materials OER Elementary 95

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

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. Practical Impacts on Faculty and Students.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60