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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Observational Assessments The teacher’s observations of student behaviors, interactions, and work provide valuable qualitative data (or information that is descriptive and non-numeric) that complements quantitative assessments, like quizzes that produce numerical data.

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15 edtech startups selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early January announced 15 startup companies selected to participate in the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator. The participating edtech startups are focused on a wide range of solutions for PK-12, higher education, and workforce education customers. Oblio, Inc. Quizard AI, Inc.

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A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them

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The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice.

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How to Make Math Fun and Interesting

Teach Hub

Making Math Fun for Young Students Turn Math into Learning Stations Textbooks alone wont cut it for young learners, they need movement, hands-on activities, and variety. It also takes the stress out of flipping through a textbook and brings math to life. Quizzes to review material in a high-energy way. Online Kahoot !

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BibliU Raises $10 Million to Scale Online Textbooks

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As colleges seek to provide alternatives to print textbooks, one digital book provider, BibliU, has launched about 100 pilots globally since the pandemic started, says CEO David Sherwood. BibliU isn’t the only company to attract investor interest for challenging the status quo of printed textbooks.

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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. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Baraniuk recalls thinking.

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.”

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