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OCTOBER 18, 2018

When professors shift to assigning Open Educational Resources instead of publisher-produced textbooks, the move typically saves students money (and it can be a significant amount). The participating colleges lost an average of $14,000 per institution from textbook sales. Students clearly benefited from the efforts.

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APRIL 19, 2022

High textbook costs continue to prove a barrier to college for some students, with some studies showing that many students skip textbook purchases even if they worry it’ll harm their grades because of the price tag. The picture we’re seeing is encouraging,” Karen Stout, president of Achieving the Dream, says.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Will I really need to buy textbooks for these classes? Some institutions are removing the burden by providing free textbooks to their entire undergraduate student body?and The best way was to make sure they have the tools and resources they need to succeed at Muskingum, and textbooks are a big part of class delivery.”

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MAY 1, 2019

Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education plan to join forces in an all-stock merger. textbook publisher if the deal is approved, with a combined valuation estimated at $5 billion. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings. Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5

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JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. To do this, educational companies need to rise to several key challenges.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

During the second semester of his first year as an undergraduate, Olivier Mercier was looking for the cheapest way to get the textbooks he needed for his classes. Perlego gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. Non-textbook publishers it works with include Atlantic Books and Greenleaf Book Group.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. We’ve seen a real shift in terms of state standards for history and social studies. Perhaps not.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them. “I I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says.

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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. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

He says he would never use such sites, but he understands their lure this semester, since he is finding it so hard to find other students to study with because of COVID restrictions. Still, he hopes that other students in his classes are not cheating, because that could bring down his grade, since many classes are graded on a curve.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. What do you mean when you say ASR is on its way to becoming “foundational educational technology”? Source: Echo360.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology as a #GoOpen ambassador for his use of open educational resources. He then went on to study school psychology and special education in graduate school. At my first board meeting, I said that we have to take back all these textbooks.

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MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

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MARCH 28, 2018

“Coming from educational publishing, there was a strict division between writing and editing and graphic-design work,” says Anagnoson. Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Now it’s my job.” But small kinks have cropped up.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. One of the most notable changes is the digitization of educational materials.

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MARCH 7, 2018

When it comes to the education librarians receive, a lot of it still focuses on literature and reading, writing and media literacy, said Mega Subramaniam, an associate professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Will Future Textbooks Include Chatbot Tutors? When Dempsey typed, “I hate you!”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. That research was conducted by SRI Education and rpk GROUP.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Here are three colleges that have found a way to use technology to create a more cost-effective, customized, and engaging learning experience. percent to 76.6

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Schools can also leverage IXL’s Learn to Read and Reading Intervention skill plans that align perfectly to popular textbooks so educators can steadily and methodically narrow reading gaps. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tier 1 and Tier 2 research shows undisputed favorable outcomes for schools implementing IXL.

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MARCH 5, 2020

She took inspiration from what she found (though she said she didn’t copy anything verbatim), and the site made her feel like she had a handle on how others using the same textbook were running their classes. The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Imagine opening your chemistry textbook and being able to use an interactive periodic table to create complex chlorofluorocarbon compounds. As students’ digital literacy grows, schools must match or surpass the level of technology students use outside of the classroom. EPUB 3 interactive e-textbooks, absolutely not.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As schools and districts try to reduce textbook costs and digitize instructional resources, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of open education resources (OER). You can take the course online or download it to study offline. The first step is to know how to access OER resources. Accessing OER.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With billion-dollar fundraises on top of billion-dollar valuations , it’s no mystery that the education technology industry is attracting top dollars from investors. The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

The rising cost of printed textbooks—as well as tuition and university life—have made them unaffordable for many students. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Those days are coming to an end.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. What do you mean when you say ASR is on its way to becoming “foundational educational technology”? Source: Echo360.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

These are the kinds of wearable technologies that could soon impact how we learn. That was the takeaway from a recent gathering of researchers studying how personal data might improve learners’ self-awareness and performance. Researchers are even studying how posture might relate to learners’ ability to retain information.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

"Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. Students greatly favored hybrid options, and they preferred digital course materials over print textbooks.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

And they argue that teachers at the college level should now essentially teach the study skills that students might not have learned in school before arriving on campuses. That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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MARCH 18, 2021

It’s quite the shock to go and find out your textbook costs are $800 the first week of school.” The cost of course materials alone can rival tuition rates at some community colleges, says Nathan Smith, an instructor of philosophy at Houston Community College and an advocate for low-cost textbooks.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Dr. Evans observed how the physical posture of a 7th-grade study participant changed when she read a small print and a large print book. Large print books decreased stress about reading for most readers who participated in the study. Their impact can be immediate and visible. With small print, her posture was visibly stressed.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

This quiz is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest Social studies is an ever-evolving discipline. Think you’re up to date on the current state of social studies curriculum? As humanity’s story changes, we must continually strive to tell it with accuracy. Having trouble viewing?

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JANUARY 19, 2023

The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. A number of startups are trying to bring so-called generative AI to classrooms as a teaching tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2023

From the Ask a Tech Teacher crew, here’s a topical article on how to use AI in your education journey: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education Technological innovation is now casting its shadows over the education sector as well, making learning experiences better than ever before.

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