Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. For example, students in Egypt generally lack access to high-quality textbooks, and those that are available are usually expensive and written in English, not Arabic. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Baraniuk recalls thinking.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Now it’s my job.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

NEW YORK and LONDON – BibliU , the EdTech innovator democratizing content accessibility, announced today that the Ysleta Independent School District has implemented its Universal Learning solution. It will give students and instructors seamless access to content through the Clever digital learning platform.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. I had a very good student come to me and say, ‘I can’t afford this textbook.’

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2017

But Paul Low is not most instructors. So how do you get educational materials from textbook to virtual world? Although colleges including Virginia Tech and Stanford have built their own VR systems from scratch, Low and Mills are adamant that the relative affordability and ease of use of consumer-grade VR tech will broaden access.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

This year’s spending on textbooks and other course materials represents a 26 percent fall from the previous year, when students spent $456, or $53 per course. Instructors are assigning more content that’s free or at least “not paid for directly” by the student, says Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at NCAS.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Better outcomes for Alaska students start with access to teachers utilizing research-grounded, evidence-based instructional practices in the science of reading,” said Jason Mendenhall, President of State Solutions Division at NWEA. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. The digital textbooks are available at a discounted price through. percent to 76.6

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Quottly at LAUNCH Sydney Johnson How Bigger College Costs Could Mean Smaller Degrees Unaffordable and rising tuition costs have prevented many students from accessing a higher education. Will Future Textbooks Include Chatbot Tutors? Soon that same technology might power chatbots inside of online textbooks. That hurts you know.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He and his students happily use open educational resources for textbooks. When you look at the courses we teach on repeat, with the same expensive book, it's difficult to believe that every instructor, en masse, somehow agreed to use the same text from the one large publisher year after year. Is that really what’s best for students?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Imagine opening your chemistry textbook and being able to use an interactive periodic table to create complex chlorofluorocarbon compounds. EPUB 3 interactive e-textbooks, absolutely not. If you, as a college instructor or administrator, don’t want to adopt digital learning tools, you need to retire. Far fetched? With today’s.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We don’t just want this to be accessible to kids in major urban environments—we want kids no matter where they are to be able to access this. For educators who will read this article, what traits might they take away from your thoughts on what constitutes “a strong instructor”? What would a national Black curriculum look like?

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As instructors and learners adapt to new educational environments, copyright concerns about reading aloud need not be among the challenges they face. In an emergency where student access to commercial learning materials is curtailed, educators’ freedom to read under fair use is enhanced. What Is Fair Use?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. OER needs to be easier to find and adopt.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The teaching experts who sponsored the training hope it will prepare college instructors to become “advocates,” empowering them to explain and defend the rigor of this way of teaching calculus to skeptical scientists from other departments. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s quite the shock to go and find out your textbook costs are $800 the first week of school.” The cost of course materials alone can rival tuition rates at some community colleges, says Nathan Smith, an instructor of philosophy at Houston Community College and an advocate for low-cost textbooks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Hardy is an adjunct instructor who teaches at two institutions in the greater Boston area, which means she’s had to follow two sets of instructions for dealing with the coronavirus, adhere to two timelines for preparing for distance teaching and hastily learn two separate technology systems for delivering lectures virtually. Andersen says. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

Valerie Schreiner, chief product officer at plagiarism detection service provider Turnitin, said the cost continues to decrease to hire someone to write your paper or gain remote access to a computer to take an exam. “I I have literally had students tell me I didn’t cheat—I paid them,” Schreiner said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The rising cost of printed textbooks—as well as tuition and university life—have made them unaffordable for many students. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Flexibility— Material can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The so-called access hypothesis goes that students who have access to the textbook learn better than students who don’t. And in cases in which traditional textbooks are prohibitively expensive, OER can provide students with an opportunity to gain access to course materials they may not have otherwise.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Truly open OERs do not require registration or payment to access. The availability (open) and price (free) make OERs a great addition to an institution’s curriculum and an instructor’s cache of teaching material. I appreciated not having to purchase textbooks in addition to paying tuition and fees. Review the material.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2019

Students and instructors can run originality reports to check any written assignments done in Google Doc against the hundreds of billions of web pages, and tens of millions of books, that Google has indexed over the years. Today Google unveiled a new feature, “ originality reports ,” which, ironically, is not all that original.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. Students now have access to a wealth of information at their fingertips, allowing for self-directed exploration and reinforcing classroom concepts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook. As a result, Wichita State is making changes across campus to improve accessibility, including developing a plan to deliver accessible course materials to students who are blind at the same time as all students. Accessibility v.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Imagine classrooms where teachers are empowered by cutting-edge technology and where students don't just learn from textbooks but co-create their educational journey. This flexibility allows for adaptable AI integration while maintaining openness and transparency between instructors and learners. It's not going to come from AI.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Of course, not everyone has access to an intensive, in-person training program run by the U.S. And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available.

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