Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2023

By definition, our lack of imagination is the only limit on our ability to use these tools in novel ways. I continue to try to imagine ways generative AI can impact teaching and learning, including learning materials like textbooks. I think the world is about to rediscover the work of Pask and Pangaro and others.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Educators stress the importance of state leadership, transparency for purchasing digital instructional materials. A new report urges care when purchasing digital instructional materials, and notes that factors such as interoperability, accessibility, and device access should be considered during the process.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

In a letter sent earlier this month, a group of ed-tech stakeholders urged the Obama administration to make federally-funded educational materials available as Open Educational Resources (OER). Next page: Five core principles for OER policies. Open Government National Action Plan.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. The reality, she adds, is that every district prefers to use different tools—digital or otherwise. The technologies are often purchased separately as well.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. But with the rise of OER, growing use of supplemental resources over core textbooks, and the increasing flexibility of state funding, more purchasing decisions have moved to the school and district level. Flexibility in adoption options.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

Schools have picked up all these new tech tools but it’s not always clear how teachers should actually use them. Some other websites that teachers use to share instructional materials have been criticized for lacking quality control. It pointed back to something he’d noticed before.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. 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.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

Annual survey outlines broadband, instructional materials, student data privacy as top among school IT leaders’ concerns. Nearly 90 percent of respondents expect their instructional materials to be at least 50 percent digital within the next three years. Next page: Salary info, demographics, and challenges.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. “We saw that our code was only looking at the adoption of textbooks,” said DeLeón.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. Christine’s background includes experience in education and consulting.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But many times tech is only integrated at specific points in the classroom or with a specific tool as determined by the teacher. In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online. The technology may be free, but at what cost to a quality education and to the civil liberties of educators and students?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

By categorizing these resources, I hope to save you time and effort in finding the right tools, whether you’re an educator seeking lesson plan ideas, a student searching for academic papers, or a parent looking for safe and educational content for your child. It’s a reliable tool for safe, kid-friendly internet exploration.

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SETDA Says

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Always working to engage state leaders, affiliates members, private sector partners, and partner organizations-SETDA developed tools and resources to support national, state, district and school leaders in the implementation of the digital teaching and learning. 2019 was an action packed year for SETDA.

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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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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. In addition, the number of schools and districts using OER continues to rise. Regarding the digital shift, ELA and literacy materials are still mainly print with digital supplements.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

simulations), and adaptive support and assessment tools.”. The text is unclear regarding whether or not the tools that provide adaptive support, the tools that provide assessment capabilities, and any other tools that might be used to store, manage, deliver, augment, or support “open textbooks” must also be openly licensed.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Tracy Weeks, executive director for SETDA, and her co-presenters discussed how implementing data interoperability standards can turn data from a daily chore into a productive tool that can provide educators with a more complete picture of the student, class, school, or district.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” “Starting this month, the wealthiest athletic departments have a new tool to help them attract and retain the best athletes – the ability to cover the full cost of summer school for students who are on any form of athletic aid,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The Indian gaming company has raised $1.2

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