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. That happened in 2017.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn.”. “I’m

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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.” So there's a real opportunity, we think, to better serve students and really address the notion of experimentation more equitably. What is that?

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.

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