Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Arizona State University agreed this week to mount an independent investigation of a professor’s allegations that students were forced to pay for unneeded software so that they could turn in their homework in hopes of getting a grant from the textbook publisher. And it said no professor was asked to fail students.

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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

MARCH 7, 2018

Here’s what else we saw, along with the answer to the question we’ve all been waiting for. During the Q&A portion, however, listeners questioned whether employees such as office assistants and maintenance workers had access to the corporate mobility without a master’s or even bachelor’s under their belt first. That hurts you know.

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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. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2016

It also makes sure teachers are prepared to address students’ key questions and areas of confusion—without creating more work for the instructor. Early in his career, he would spent countless hours before every class preparing lecture notes from a different textbook than students were using.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

This year’s spending on textbooks and other course materials represents a 26 percent fall from the previous year, when students spent $456, or $53 per course. Instructors are assigning more content that’s free or at least “not paid for directly” by the student, says Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at NCAS.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Mike Silagadze, who in 2009 co-founded Top Hat , a provider of digital courseware and textbooks for higher education, will be stepping away from the role on March 15 after serving as CEO for over a decade. It acquired the higher-ed business of Nelson, one of Canada’s biggest textbook publishers, along with two smaller U.S.-based

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Between weeks five and eight—and after students have received results from a major assessment—instructors ask students to weigh in on how their learning is progressing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He and his students happily use open educational resources for textbooks. When you look at the courses we teach on repeat, with the same expensive book, it's difficult to believe that every instructor, en masse, somehow agreed to use the same text from the one large publisher year after year. Is that really what’s best for students?

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STEM Textbooks Instructors Science 178

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

That is the question that I was asking myself over and over again, and I shared this idea with Roland Fryer. For educators who will read this article, what traits might they take away from your thoughts on what constitutes “a strong instructor”? There’s always the question in my mind of, “How does one scale something like this?

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. The short answer is, well, yes. What Is Fair Use? In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The teaching experts who sponsored the training hope it will prepare college instructors to become “advocates,” empowering them to explain and defend the rigor of this way of teaching calculus to skeptical scientists from other departments. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked.

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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. OER needs bells and whistles.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones. He says initial results show that students responded more positively to computer-generated instructors that read as female.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

And the system uses a metaphor that students sit at “tables,” meaning that instructors can easily organize students into groups that can have their own breakout discussions. One instructor [trying it] is working in one of the larger University of California [campuses]. The system is aimed at colleges.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

After an Arizona State University professor’s email went viral last month , accusing the institution of adopting online textbooks in exchange for grants from their publisher, officials agreed to the student government’s call for an independent investigation. That report, prepared by Ruth V.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

For Devlin Daley’s next act, he’s employed a strategy that worked for his previous education business: visit college campuses to see what technologies made students’ and instructors’ lives harder. On Derivita, students work through math lessons and test questions that instructors can pull from a bank or create from scratch.

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Textbooks Instructors Math Feedback 133

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Such a huge investment on multiple fronts begs the question regarding ROI. “We through a signup ID supplied by their course instructors, like buying an electronic textbook. Enter Textbook Publishers. 1 is “the sales question,” Squire explains. Currently the ARTé: Macenas game sells to students for $19.95

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 131

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2019

Students and instructors can run originality reports to check any written assignments done in Google Doc against the hundreds of billions of web pages, and tens of millions of books, that Google has indexed over the years. Today Google unveiled a new feature, “ originality reports ,” which, ironically, is not all that original.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With teachers, parents, administrators, taxpayers, politicians, employers, academics and students themselves all concerned about learning success, it is no surprise that the questions asked and answers proposed about which education practices are best differ widely.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To answer this question, examining the conditions enabling online classes and exploring how EdTech technology can help address educational disparities and teacher shortages in our education system is crucial. Some school districts have opted for in-person high-dose tutoring.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” That means evaluating the curriculum’s illustrations, questioning the story lines, looking at the narratives laid out and the lifestyles depicted to scan for bias. We don’t know.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I have completed online graduate courses and a professional certificate that used a combination of instructor-created content, freely-accessible websites and videos, and creative-commons-licensed OERs. I appreciated not having to purchase textbooks in addition to paying tuition and fees. Review the material.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Textbook format and cost mattered. But it takes intentionality.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unanswered Questions The choice of Course Hero as a host seems odd, Alexander adds, when there were other, less controversial options out there such as MERLOT System, an international association that supports OER, or the Internet Archive. The move also prompted questions about whether Lumen is changing its views about OER.

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Textbooks Education Instructors Internet 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This question came up in a handful of discussions this week at the OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY. The so-called access hypothesis goes that students who have access to the textbook learn better than students who don’t. And the short answer is, most experts still aren’t sure. Not all openly-licensed learning materials are free.

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Textbooks Learning Learning Outcomes Internet 139

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available. After bouncing around a few, I finally settled on OpenStax , a free online textbook platform through Rice University.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

And as college campuses closed and instructors scrambled to facilitate online instruction, digital education providers like Course Hero saw a surge in usage of its services. Founded in 2006, Course Hero is already well known among college students, millions of whom use it to get study materials, share class notes and ask tutors questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Each faculty member does that in their own way, but our question was, ‘What does that look like in terms of a textbook?’” Hoffman recently brought her question to the gathering of open education resource users and advocates at the OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY earlier this month.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A number of instructors say it’s partly reconsidering how calculus, a crucial step toward STEM careers and often a “weed out” course in higher ed, is taught. A professor from Indiana: “I've taught calculus dozens of times, with diverse textbooks, quite successfully. That was geography.”

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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. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Designed Adaptivity.

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