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106K free teacher-created digital textbooks hit the web

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The move to digital textbooks and resources is spreading as more companies partner with open education efforts. More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform. Digital Learning and Tools News STEM Top News'

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A Major Textbook Publisher Has Gone Private. What Does That Mean For Its Transition To Digital?

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The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. The textbook publisher had announced the sale back in February.

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Turn the Page: Looking Beyond the Textbook for Culturally-Responsive Curriculum

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Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

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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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Can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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Expressing their views about AI and math instruction, more than 64 percent of teachers say that its best used in coordination with human education from teachers to help students create a bridge between prior and new knowledge.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

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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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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Math lessons still often lack the deep thinking and collaboration that are essential for real-world applications, says Steven Shadel, chief knowledge officer for math at Great Minds, the publisher of Eureka Math and Eureka Math Squared. Solving for X Some curriculum publishers say they recognize the weight of the problem.

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