Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset.

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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. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. He jokes that he usually uses an app on his smartphone to randomly assign groups, since all human decisions involve bias. He doesn’t sweat it, though, since he has a plan to get everyone back on track.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. In that scenario, professors simply assign the book and courseware and require students to buy them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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