Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Among its main social-impact missions is to ensure that educational texts—print or digital—are accessible to every learner, regardless of impairment or disability. That label means that all of Macmillan’s future digital textbooks should meet the web accessibility standards established by the W3C, the international web standards organization.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

That group includes students from low-income families, students with disabilities, veterans, parents, those who are the first in their families to attend college and racial minorities. The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever.

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APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Changing Student Expectations Given the rapid evolution of technology and educational methods, student expectations have shifted considerably in recent years.

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MAY 8, 2023

Digital Learning: With the help of AI, digital learning is now powered by more customized options, study guides, and digital textbooks. 3. Access to Education for Special Needs Students: The innovative tools in AI technology benefit all, as it is opening up new ways of interacting especially for students with learning disabilities.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Accommodations and modifications For students with disabilities, accommodations such as text readers and adaptive technology help remove barriers and promote equity. I recommend proactively asking strategic questions once a week or more through a Google form or similar technology.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Funds are available through the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), E-rate program, and federal COVID relief funds like the CARES Act. software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g.

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MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

If the textbooks, courseware, lesson plans and worksheets used in schools reflect all students’ realities, the argument goes, it will set all students up for real learning. That’s especially true for LGBTQ people and those with disabilities, Rodick says. But figuring out whether texts are inclusive can be difficult.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

But this time the company disabled the “share” feature—a key component of the service. Department of Education challenge called #GoOpen , which encourages replacing commercial textbooks with openly-licensed online materials. Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire.

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MAY 11, 2021

The result of this combined effort is an impressive graduation rate of 91 percent, despite the fact that 76 percent of the district’s 16,484 students qualify for free and reduced lunch and textbooks. Center on Technology & Disability — Getting Started with Accessibility. Pete Just Recommended Resources.

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JULY 5, 2017

Colemere says this could be useful for some students with learning disabilities. “It AR books have yet to expand into literature or higher grade level materials (you won’t yet find an AR version of “Of Mice and Men”) but perhaps textbooks are what’s next to come. It makes the books come alive in a different way,” she says.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Washington High School for the Engineering Professions in the mid-nineties, Cheek Clayton tackled AP Physics—without a textbook. “We There is a wide achievement gap between students with and without disabilities. It was amazing to see an actual school district that was making money on edtech. I was outraged. Why can’t we do better?

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Founded in the United Kingdom, the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to inspire young people to study computer science by inventing a programmable computer for the price of a textbook. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd., Our ongoing efforts ensure that we consistently deliver positive learning outcomes.

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JULY 19, 2017

Once he settles on the concepts he wants to cover, Salimi will look around for open education resources or multimedia from textbook publishers to explain each one. He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. she asks. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

The type of learning and work environments students will experience after they graduate resemble the traditional “sage-on-the-stage,” textbook-driven model of teaching less and less. Check out this inspiring video of CAPS students changing the life of a disabled student.). Provide real-world opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

And Proctorio has inked deals with McGraw-Hill and other textbook publishers to bundle its proctoring tool into courseware, meaning even doing homework may now involved being watched and tracked for suspicious behavior. Students and professors have raised other concerns about the effectiveness of automated proctoring tools as well.

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MAY 16, 2015

Address the special needs of kids struggling with learning or cognitive disabilities, language barriers, or other obstacles to learning. The physical appearance of primary and secondary school classrooms is changing as many schools trade individual student desks for large tables around which students may sit with their laptops and tablets.

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MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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JUNE 19, 2018

He has also donated to a charity that supports children with disabilities. Experiential textbooks? Severance already had tenure when he started his MOOC, but he’s used some of the money he’s received from the online course to start an edtech company. Once you have a blockbuster at a university, then faculty rush to MOOCs,” he said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Additionally, AI can be used to develop tools that enhance accessibility for students with disabilities, providing a more inclusive learning environment for all kinds of learners. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook. I see that continuing in the future.

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MAY 7, 2025

For example, instead of reading about the solar system in a textbook, students can “walk” on Mars, study historical events through images, or even step into a VR simulation of ancient Rome. Historical Immersion Rather than just reading about historical events in a textbook, students can witness them in VR.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: A systematic literature review. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. Equity is achieved when students receive resources according to need.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This community became a source of support, sharing stories and exploring characters that resonated with our queer, disabled, or minority identities.” In addition to her research and teaching, she contributes to the academic community as an author of open textbooks. “We each grappled with our unique challenges,” Charlie recalls.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: A systematic literature review. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. Equity is achieved when students receive resources according to need.

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Teach Hub

MAY 7, 2025

For example, instead of reading about the solar system in a textbook, students can “walk” on Mars, study historical events through images, or even step into a VR simulation of ancient Rome. Historical Immersion Rather than just reading about historical events in a textbook, students can witness them in VR.

Education 52

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This community became a source of support, sharing stories and exploring characters that resonated with our queer, disabled, or minority identities.” In addition to her research and teaching, she contributes to the academic community as an author of open textbooks. “We each grappled with our unique challenges,” Charlie recalls.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Additionally, AI can be used to develop tools that enhance accessibility for students with disabilities, providing a more inclusive learning environment for all kinds of learners. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook. I see that continuing in the future.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The federal government said you have to take seriously the sexual harassment of young women in the classroom, the sexual assault of young women in the bathroom; you have to let students with disabilities actually attend your schools.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2025

Staten teaches English at Northeast High School, the citys largest high school, where many of her students have learning disabilities, are dealing with trauma and mental health challenges, or are learning English. Her early days of teaching involved a lot of printed paper, textbooks, and handwriting. Staten can relate.

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