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McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Embrace Open Learning

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Frank Smith Collaboration combines popular software with powerful analytics to promote personalized learning experiences in schools. Classroom Curriculum Digital Content Learning Management Software'

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This school groups students by ability, not grade level

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Wisconsin school puts focus on personalized learning, student choice, and open learning spaces. It’s after lunch in a combined fourth- and fifth-grade class at Walker Elementary School, and students are working on equivalent fractions.

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How to find, curate, and assess OER

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Department of Education has its #GoOpen District Launch Packet , and Open Learning has a free online course (about 15 hours) on how to develop OER content. In total, Open Learning has more than 800 professional development courses to support teacher development. How to find OER.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Forgetting is a Feature, Not a Bug: How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

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That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT. “Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student's brain is a sheet of paper. Instead, he likens good teaching to growing a plant.

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5 components of a great hybrid learning program

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A strong, unified classroom (in person and virtually) is possible when you foster conversations, encouraging innovation, and establishing a safe and open learning environment. Use hybrid learning to enhance educational experiences.

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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The platform will be built on open-source software and materials that universities have already developed—mainly a combination of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative’s platform, called Torus , and online materials from Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through eXploration, called ETX.

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