eSchool News
APRIL 23, 2020
Most teachers don’t have prior experience or professional development in teaching online courses effectively. Related post: Leading eLearning and a Future Ready library opportunity. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.
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. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student.
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Faculty Focus
MAY 15, 2025
Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design. Textbook format and cost mattered. They are co-creators of it.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Burke says that while faculty have enthusiastically embraced open education resources as a way to remove the roadblock of textbook costs, the strain of the pandemic is reflected in the college’s data. Susan Deer, provost and executive vice president of Rockland Community College.
Edsurge
AUGUST 19, 2016
.—$20,000 dollars of student debt, 14 months, one thesis, two internships, $1,500 dollars worth of textbooks, and countless sleepless nights later and I finally earned those two little letters following my name. Open Textbooks. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. case studies and articles I had purchased over the years).
Edsurge
JANUARY 13, 2017
In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. A few trees were saved, but courses weren’t any smarter.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
I spent the next four years in my assigned seat among the rows of desks, trying to listen to the teacher at the front of the room, completing homework assignments from textbooks, and preparing for tests by making countless flashcards. Twenty years ago, I was a freshman in high school.
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