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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

Edsurge

For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving. But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. colleges use at least one.

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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words.

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The 5 Strategies States Should Pursue Now to Make the Most of Future EdTech Investments in ESSA

Doug Levin

As such, states can expect to support a great variety of approaches to educational technology in their districts under the program, from those that spend some smaller portion of funds on activities to fill in the gaps in local efforts to those that devote the maximum allowable funds to ambitious personalized learning implementations.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. Students will explain orbit, gravity, and gravitational pull.

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A day in the life with Student Dashboard Digital Backpack

Hapara

and Mrs. Perkins, a fifth-grade teacher, browses the district’s library of content in H?para Thanks to the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack’s technology, the content within the system is compliant with accessibility standards, all without Mrs. Perkins needing to do any work on her part. It’s 6:30 a.m.,

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” asks Marketplace.