Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset.

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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). In total, Open Learning has more than 800 professional development courses to support teacher development. How to find OER.

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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

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. But at religious institutions, adapting open materials for a faith-based curriculum can be trickier.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn.”. “I We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn,” he adds. The students who actually did Spieler’s homework experienced another trendy teaching approach: adaptive learning software. The Maryland project is working with.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

The system, which harnesses AI, recently won first place in the annual XPrize Digital Learning Challenge , which boasts a purse of $1 million split among winners. “In 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.”

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