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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. But in the past few years the company has suffered several setbacks—along with mounting criticism that its founding CEO, Jose Ferreira, overhyped its technology.

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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. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. /

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024! What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

After all, a free or inexpensive alternative to a pricey commercial textbook can make a big difference for students at institutions like Salt Lake Community College, who are “mostly not affluent,” Hardy says. But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Will Future Textbooks Include Chatbot Tutors? Soon that same technology might power chatbots inside of online textbooks. IBM Watson Education gave a demo of just such a system on Wednesday, which officials called an “intelligent tutoring system.” It must be integrated with other curriculum.” That hurts you know.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

“When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. What’s new in your approach?

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For decades, print textbook publishers have owned K-12 distribution channels, usually through fleets of sales representatives that hone relationships with schools and districts. Now, Quizlet wants to test whether it can offer content providers that distribution channel—and upend how publishers reach consumers online.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Increasingly, students encounter these proctoring tools in courseware required for their classes, thanks to partnerships between textbook publishers and proctoring companies. The practice has stirred controversy, and this week a group of parents became the latest to push back against remote proctoring software. It is very nerve-wracking.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

During the panel, research on the prevalence and perspectives of cheating was presented by Jarret Dyer, coordinator of testing services at College of DuPage, a community college of more than 28,000 students in Illinois, and Steve Saladin, director of testing and assessment at the University of Idaho, a public school of more than 9,000 students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

So despite the recent buzz about how new AI software like ChatGPT could serve as a helper in classes, there’s widespread concern about the tendency of the technology to simply make up facts. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology think they may have a way to keep the chatbots honest. How is it going?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Technology Will Revolutionize the Way We Teach One of the first computer-assisted instruction experiments occurred in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1969. Students sat at machines to take diagnostic tests, complete lessons and answer basic questions to earn a transistor radio. Technology is never going to be the magic solution to our problems.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. In open-ended answers, some educators said they see it as a tool akin to a calculator, or like using content from a textbook.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

We spoke to Welcome about why he thinks students need to have more freedom to explore the technology available to them in their classroom, and how teachers can use technology to build relationships with their students. . EDTECH: As an education technology consultant and speaker, what is your main message?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

through a signup ID supplied by their course instructors, like buying an electronic textbook. Enter Textbook Publishers. Textbook publishers could be the next level of major companies investing in the production of video games in higher education. Currently the ARTé: Macenas game sells to students for $19.95

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Teachers could also share learning resources, tests and assignments to both the classes at the same time, ensuring that both the classes were at the same level. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Sitting at my desk at the end of the day, I recall numerous instances where colleagues said my work was either easy or unimportant because it wasn't a state-tested subject or graduation requirement. This lack of recognition extends to subjects not tested by the state, like Arabic, which are often undervalued compared to core subjects.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Recently, NAEP determined a new reading assessment framework aimed at making the test more equitable. States like my home state of North Carolina are addressing broadband access, because technology is now a basic need for students in the same way up-to-date textbooks once were.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

As someone who earned his stripes as a classroom teacher and designer of multiple online courses, and who previously held positions as the Chief Innovation Officer for the State of Rhode Island and Director of the Office of Education Technology for the U.S. But the way you manifest those in a virtual space is very different.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Instead, the school wants students to help test and design the learning tools they use—in hopes that their feedback can improve pass rates and other metrics. Officials from both parties launched the Lumen Learning Testing Center at the college earlier this year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. It is one of the least profitable parts of the business, it is textbook led and much less advanced than other parts of Pearson,” Fallon told The Evening Standard. “It higher-education courseware and in-school assessment in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Source: Ponddy) Those products also provide the technical backbone for a third element of the program, which employs live, online native speakers working with the Smart Textbooks and Reader. The test is scheduled for Monday, May 6, 2019, nationwide.) A lesson featuring radicals and translations. Now it’s a resource for her students.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In education, this is particularly harmful to students because it affects pacing guides, textbooks and how states measure who achieves—and who fails. In most states, textbooks are expected to be age-appropriate, but it just means designed for what the ‘average’ kid knows and can do.” Jaggedness" as it applies to IQ.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To understand how self-monitoring devices might impact education, first we need a definition of these technologies. According to Rich Voithofer, associate professor of educational technology at Ohio State University, wearables are an “intimate two-way interface between ourselves and the world.” Rich Voithofer.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Less Testing, More Feedback When we finally do recover, we should throw out what the pandemic showed us wasn’t important. Parents and educators have long pushed for focusing less on grades and tests, in favor of spending more time on giving student feedback.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

The student’s mental image of the subject is more than likely that of a textbook—dense, daunting, and dry—accompanied by a sigh exclaiming, “Please, anything but this!” Only the rare student, who already is passionate about the topic, would consider navigating a textbook alone or for pleasure.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. How can I get away from that whole spin, wash, repeat cycle of: Here’s the study guide, take a test, forget what you learned, repeat? It really was transformative. Be yourself.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

It’s a textbook toss-up. All the major K-12 traditional textbook publishers were present at the event but only one—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—got speaking time on stage. EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Those schools, Brown says, really focus on regular testing and assessment. Elementary math textbooks claim to be aligned with Common Core standards, but they’re sometimes not, Copur-Gencturk says. And the curriculum isn’t always good. I have a daughter who's in fifth grade right now.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

I was able to review an entire year’s worth of material in about 10 hours, and I feel more confident than ever going into my tests.” Cherlendy Louis, a student and TeachTap user in New York City, said, “Instead of getting bored and zoning out using textbooks, TeachTap makes topics so much more entertaining.

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