Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. She first discovered Open Up Resources in 2016 and rolled out its K-8 English curriculum for the 215 students at her school in the fall of the following year.

Resources 105

Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 105

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. billion loss in 2016. Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

TenMarks’ co-founders Andrew Joseph and Rohit Agarwal, joined Amazon Education after the transaction but left , respectively, in 2016 and 2017. Last August, the team unveiled an instructional writing tool for students in grades 4 to 6. Still, the TenMarks team continued to push ahead with new product lines.

Tools 109

Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 109

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 2, 2023

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. Recently there’s been a fairly heated conversation about whether AI should be allowed to train on copyrighted materials.

Learning 148

Learning Training Study Instructional Materials 148

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching. Surely a lot has changed!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

But it has helped the Pittsburgh-based company promote a second service it has quietly offered since 2016: the Duolingo English Test. AVID also launched a website, “Open Access,” that curates digital instructional materials from nine content providers including Code.org, Microsoft and MIT.

EdTech 206

EdTech Company Training Guidelines 206

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 28, 2016

A few weeks ago Achieving the Dream announced a major initiative in which 38 community colleges across the US will completely replace the commercial instructional materials in their courses with open educational resources (OER). 18) for the creation of OER-based degrees (see SEC.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2018

This is in large part due to a shift in the demographic makeup of the student population (non-white students are expected to make up the majority of public schools by 2024) while the demographic makeup of the teaching workforce remains constant ( 80 percent of teachers during the 2015-2016 school year were white).

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Policies Instructional Materials Training Assessment 83

The Innovative Educator

JUNE 29, 2016

Amazon announced yesterday that they would use their familiar marketplace look and feel with a search bar, ratings, and reviews to offer teachers a platform where they can access tens of thousands of lesson plans, worksheets, and other instructional materials just in time for the back to school season this August.

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Instructional Materials Industry Accessibility Classroom 63

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2017

In a 2016 study by CoSN, nearly 90 percent of education respondents expect their instructional materials to be at least 50 percent digital within the next three years.

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Industry Instructional Materials Data Training 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A groundbreaking 2016 study, underwritten by Reading Plus , an adaptive literacy intervention platform, found that contemporary silent readers are significantly less efficient than their counterparts from 1960—and the researchers suggested a direct link to the decline in the overall amount of time students spend reading.

Elementary 151

Elementary Assessment Study Instructional Materials 151

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That was a short-lived project, as company executives quickly learned that few teachers had the authority or money to buy digital materials for their class. In 2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced plans to launch a marketplace where teachers, developers, companies and even students would be able to buy and sell educational materials.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

During the 2016–17 school year, 175 teachers across six school districts helped fine-tune the curriculum as part of a yearlong beta release. Daily teacher feedback was used by the Illustrative Mathematics authoring team in the refinement of the materials.

OER 82

OER Resources Kaplan Instructional Materials 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

“I believe, absolutely, there will be a massive increase in credit recovery, not just during the pandemic, but continuing for a long time afterwards,” said Kinsey Rawe, senior vice president and general manager of courseware and instructional services at Imagine Learning, a leading seller of credit recovery programs to schools.

Course 102

Course Software Instructional Materials Blended Learning 102

District Administration

DECEMBER 3, 2015

How one of the largest districts in the country is going Google District Administration Custom Publishing Group The School District of Lee County in Florida is in the midst of one of the largest education Chromebook implementations in the country, distributing some 18,000 devices along with Google Apps for Education accounts to all students in grades (..)

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Chromebook Personalized Learning Google Instructional Materials 40

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

Do fees for access to online materials disqualify a program? Do materials fees for lab classes and would it matter if they are actual materials fees or items purchased in a bookstore? Fees for materials in certain labs are allowed such as materials kits in cosmetology courses/labs. Research at CMU.

Khan Academy 131

Khan Academy OER System Case Study 131

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I am almost booked through January and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Student Centered : Instructional materials shows student how to make their own trip. Check out my Booking Page … Dates are going fast, with time up to and including December just about filled, and I am taking 2016 dates Google Lit Trips.

Resources 60

Resources Technology Tools Blendspace 60

User Generated Education

JULY 25, 2016

It is invigorating ( Adam Savage’s 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire Talk ). The educator needs to be an astute observer of how learners interact with instructional materials, and make adjustments if problems arise. Every single time you make something from you that didn’t exist in the world, you are making.

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Education Robotics Elementary Examples 120

techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

Curriculum Associates’ study examined the performance of thousands of New York schools on the 2016–2017 state assessments and found that scores on the New York State Grades 3–8 Test were substantially higher for those schools with access to Ready than for schools without access to Ready. To learn more about Ready , visit ReadyCommonCore.com.

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Meeting Instructional Materials Assessment Study 40

techlearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. “We are committed to driving the greatest possible gains for all learners, and this study demonstrates the remarkable impact the program is having in classrooms nationwide.”

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Meeting Differentiated Instruction Instructional Materials Analysis 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

I am now just about booked through the end of March and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Common Lit – It is the mission of Common Lit to provide a collection of high quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades five through twelve. Check out my Booking Page.

Resources 60

Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

techlearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

This is the first time in 12 years that California has reviewed new science instructional materials. The CDE accepted submissions for science material adoption for grades K-8 in the spring of 2018 and will make recommendations for materials adoptions this month for formal adoption in the fall.

Resources 40

Resources Instructional Materials Company Strategy 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

Later, as Achieve’s Science Director, Matt led the development of the current version of the EQuIP Rubric for Science, the NGSS Lesson Screener, and NextGen TIME which were all part of a calculated effort to push the supply and demand sides of the market to develop instructional materials designed for the NGSS.

Education 91

Education Assessment Professional Learning Policies 91

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

Looking ahead, a long period of tech adoption is coming up as the print-to-digital transition continues because most K-12 instructional materials and assessments are still print-based. K-12 Venture Capital in 2016: Data Analytics, Virtual Reality Could Make Gains.

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Differentiated Instruction Industry Instructional Materials Google 40

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

And though more school and state leaders have made broadband connectivity a priority, a 2016 FCC broadband progress report notes that the digital divide is still very much present, and that 41 percent of schools have not yet met the FCC’s short-term goal of 100 Mbps per 1,000 users.

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Report Broadband E-rate Advocacy 40

NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 15, 2016

There’s a rich Election 2016 archive. C-Span Classroom : Supported by cable television for social studies teachers, the site features classroom videos clips and supplementary instructional materials–lesson plans, handouts, and special offers.

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Common Core iPhone Instructional Materials Android 40

techlearning

AUGUST 8, 2018

Built to address the rigor of the new standards, i-Ready collects a broad spectrum of rich data on student abilities that identifies areas where a student is struggling, measures growth across a student’s career, supports teacher-led differentiated instruction, and provides a personalized instructional path within a single online solution.

Differentiated Instruction 40

Differentiated Instruction Instructional Materials Education Assessment 40

techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. About Curriculum Associates Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. Together, they account for more than $134 billion in revenue in 2017.

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Company Instructional Materials Industry Blended Learning 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Miller Lifetime Achievement Award (2016). Essential Elements for Digital Content is a free professional learning community that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to digital instructional materials.

Learning 41

Learning Exercises Policies Software 41

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Firstly, the teacher, as Davis pointed out, is encouraged to provide a broad range of sensory experiences, enabling students to engage with various instructional materials. These methods encourage active participation and allow students to apply what they’ve learned in practical, often real-world, scenarios. Boonstra, J.,

Learning 65

Learning Khan Academy Moodle Adaptive Learning 65

techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

The news of being named a preferred vendor comes after a recently released report showing that students in Utah who were using Lexia Reading Core5® during the 2016-17 school year realized significant literacy gains. The most compelling findings in this year’s ETI report point to the connection between strong usage and final results.

Education 40

Education Assessment Software Differentiated Instruction 40

techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

Performance was captured with RIT (Rasch unIT) scores, which measure student achievement on an equal-interval scale across all grades, and researchers compared students’ fall and spring levels in Core5 to their fall 2016 and spring 2017 MAP RIT scores. “We

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Comparison Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment 40

techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

The state is reviewing new science instructional materials for the first time in 12 years to help science teachers succeed in teaching students the latest standards. 2016 to address NGSS, but implementation at the school level has taken time.

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Company Instructional Materials Elementary Common Core 40

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

It included our teachers’ instructional materials, organized lists of primary source portals, embedded ebook anthologies, document analysis tools, tools for organizing writing, documentation and remixing, On that guide also was a Google Custom Search Engine I created for searching across the most important of those portals.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

five-part tutorial on rubric creation and implementation Developing and using instructional rubrics.a five-part tutorial on rubric creation and implementation Developing and using instructional rubrics.a pedagogical and practical article Five ways to blow the top off rubrics.innovative ways to create rubrics From Now On: 2/98.making

Assessment 40

Assessment Common Core Wiki Educreations 40

Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

five-part tutorial on rubric creation and implementation Developing and using instructional rubrics.a five-part tutorial on rubric creation and implementation Developing and using instructional rubrics.a pedagogical and practical article Five ways to blow the top off rubrics.innovative ways to create rubrics From Now On: 2/98.making

Assessment 40

Assessment Common Core Wiki Educreations 40