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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice.
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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eSchool News
JUNE 28, 2024
It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.
Edsurge
MARCH 28, 2018
Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But small kinks have cropped up.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 17, 2017
There’s even a new peer-reviewed academic journal about using Wikipedia in higher education. I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). What we're learning over time is that, of course, Wikipedia had and still has problems with accuracy and relevance.
Edsurge
MARCH 13, 2019
With anywhere from 50-150 pieces of work to grade at a time, narrative feedback was taking days for each assignment, and half the students were tossing their feedback in the recycling bin without reading it. Students use peer feedback to quickly revise their work and pose at least one question before I provide in-app feedback.
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available. After bouncing around a few, I finally settled on OpenStax , a free online textbook platform through Rice University. I’m here to tell you that concern is valid.
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