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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

STEM is all about a practical approach to learning and student engagement. And eBooks offer the necessary engagement. Students can be active participants in the learning process while going through the course materials as well as while engaging in classroom-based practical activities.

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

Marketplace K-12

“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

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals.

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