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How to find, curate, and assess OER

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Recent scholarship further hints that teachers are not embracing digital resources in ways to make an impactful difference, even though we know that digital materials engage students and help improve student time on task. In total, Open Learning has more than 800 professional development courses to support teacher development.

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Help Teachers Truly See Their Students Through Usable, Connected Data

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As a young student in Germany, Philip Heimes recalls feeling “invisible” to his teachers. One of many in a classroom packed with students, his learning struggles often went unnoticed. He muddled through with low grades and the assumption that learning was wearisome and trying. “I They can’t talk to one another.

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Forgetting is a Feature, Not a Bug: How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

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The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns. Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student's brain is a sheet of paper. That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT.

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. When authors chose to sell content, Argos will take a cut of the revenue. going to be layering on a service.

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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

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On the other, many people are increasingly nervous about some digital platforms and their implications for students—and even on democracy itself. Meanwhile, online and hybrid learning keep growing and developing. I wanted students to study edtech while using it, so every week will feature some hands-on work.

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U. of Michigan Hints at Growth Plans for Office of Academic Innovation

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We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program

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There are no admissions requirements for MicroMasters programs, and students who do well in them can use that success to help win admission to complete the full master’s at the participating institution. But so far, few of those students have completed the full set of courses and enrolled in a traditional program, as intended.