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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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“We see technology as the means by which I can apply the benefits of teaching to far more people, and you can help free teachers up to spend more time with students, engaging students, learning from each other. So it’s going to be important that we track value-added, or progress-added.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Students who completed courses were more likely to complete courses.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Course Signals.

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