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Digital versus physical textbooks

Hapara

With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Online textbooks are also easy to distribute across a school district. They can preview the online textbooks, share them with learners or save them for later.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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