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Open Education – Where do I begin?

Tom Murray

With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. As with any instructional materials, quality is key. Interested in joining the platform? Sign up for the wait list here.

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Twelve Years Later: How the K-12 Industry and Investment Landscape Has Shifted (Part 2)

Edsurge

If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. Tackling the $6 billion instructional materials market almost always requires displacing a product, program or service already in use. billion or so.

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Many Online Education Marketplaces Have Sputtered. Will Quizlet’s Pass the Test?

Edsurge

That’s a lesson that the team behind Edmodo, a classroom management and collaboration platform, quickly learned. The most notable is Teachers Pay Teachers, an online destination where educators can sell lesson plans and instructional materials. But a large teacher following is no guarantee of success.

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