Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

When combined with other sources, one estimate places this figure as high as $10 billion annually, with $200 million of that spent on digital instructional materials. Highly fragmented, these organizations often serve small numbers of learners and have very limited budgets for instructional materials.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Water Princess Unit, for example, includes a video of an educator bringing the unit to life with students. Kathy recommends that, when adopting high-quality instructional materials, teachers think about how they can implement the instruction while taking student interest and identity into account.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Designed in collaboration with educators and aligned with the CASEL framework, The Edge is the first curriculum to meet educators’ demands for high-quality instructional materials for SEL and life-skills readiness. Early adopters of The Edge have reported remarkable results.

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Instructional Materials Social Media Meeting Outcomes 98

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

.” Unfortunately, in some schools, these instructional coaches also have administrative responsibility. To understand a common problem with instructional coaching, let’s look at the business world for a moment. For example, in the business community, a life coach is typically not someone in your chain of command.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

While it may seem logical for teachers and professors to clearly disclose when they use AI to develop instructional materials, just as they are asking students to do in assignments, Watkins points out that it’s not as simple as it might seem. But many experts say it depends on what a teacher is doing with AI.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, a digital worksheet is still a worksheet in the same way a traditional six-period bell schedule done via Zoom or Google Meets is still a basic substitution of the physical classroom setting for the virtual one. Most of the examples that appear in the section below fall into this category.

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Learning Examples Instructional Materials Blended Learning 218

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As such, OpenSciEd has several unique benefits relative to typical, commercially produced instructional materials. For example, because open materials can be readily modified, research studies can compare adapted lessons to their off-the-shelf counterparts to examine the effectiveness of the adaptations.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Schools and districts can select courses in any combination or choose from a list of courses that are designed to focus instruction on a specific career and aligned to one or more industry certifications.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

After finding a review they want to consider, educators can then focus in on the evaluation, comments, and recommendation regarding the educational material, and in many cases compare that review to a different state’s review of the same resource. Utah’s Process and Reviews.

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Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 42

Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. First, the authentic design opportunity to develop instructional materials for adult learners motivated many to participate in the MOOC. Why has this crowdsourcing design project been successful?

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2018

This involves identifying vocabulary that students have to understand in order to access curriculum content; understanding the semantic and syntactic complexity of the language used in written instructional materials; and knowing the ways in which students are expected to use language to complete each learning task.

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Instructional Materials Survey Strategy Accessibility 206

Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 5, 2023

For example, my son who is studying cybersecurity recently told me prompted ChatGPT along these lines: ‘You are the hiring manager for a cybersecurity position at a large company. Then do the same with every colorful little box containing an example, case study, etc. Conduct a mock interview with me, asking me ten conceptual questions.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 13, 2023

” question about the way generative AI might change the ways that learners interact with instructional materials like textbooks. This week I’d like to ask another.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade. This is good news and cause for celebration.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

For example, a 50-minute period might begin with a “Do Now,” a brief exercise that introduces to students what they will be learning, followed by short segments that include a mix of lecture, group activity, discussion, or individual work. Get creative with the format of your live or recorded lecturing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This framework informs how ThinkCERCA designs its literacy instructional materials and lessons. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay. For example, how do you create a claim and counterclaim?)

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Four, we must ensure that all instructional materials – no matter their form or medium – remain available for public inspection and review. While this is an imperfect process and often treated as a necessary evil, there are myriad examples where this public review process has helped to identify and remediate errors of fact and bias.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Louisiana, for example, used their dollars to serve an additional 16,000 children from birth to age three. If there is an influx of English language learners, for example, they are prepared to quickly open more classrooms to serve these children and their families. But the time to use those dollars is quickly running out.

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Instructional Materials Education Outcomes Examples 137

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

The details: Over the summer, teachers will receive training in delivering online learning and will be flexible and able to transfer their in-person instruction to an online environment. The likelihood of another outbreak is “relatively high,” so staff will need to move quickly.

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Blended Learning Online Learning Training Guidelines 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. The transition to nontraditional instruction required educators to consider not only students’ access to technology and instructional materials, but of adequate food and necessities often provided by schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

UDL is based on the principle that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning and that instructional materials and methods should be flexible and adaptable to the needs of all students. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.

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UDL Assistive Technology Accessibility EdTech 210

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. This is because, ordinarily, students who read behind grade level may be pulled out of class to join a different group, or given different material to read, thereby isolating them.

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Education Company EdTech Instructional Materials 174

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, politicians understand costs much better than they understand learning, which makes policy work and other political advocacy around eliminating textbook costs far easier than advocating for ways that “open” (whatever that word means) might be leveraged to improve student outcomes.

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OER Advocacy Outcomes Instructional Materials 164

Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. Differentiation is the adjustment of teaching methodologies, instructional materials, the classroom environment, means of assessment, and content to match the interests and needs of learners to achieve the targeted learning outcomes.

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Differentiated Instruction OER Resources Hapara 147

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

For example, there is no evidence that matching instructional materials to a student’s preferred “learning style” helps learning, nor that there are “right-brain” and “left-brain” learners. Even well-designed communications like the one put together by Deans for Impact on effective instructional principles are still complex.

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Learning Examples Instructional Materials Social Media 158

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 178

User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Instead, more professional learning time should be spent helping teachers plan, develop materials, and practice delivering the strategies with colleague support. ( [link] ). Teachers need to be offered lots of instructional suggestions and resources so they can tailor their PD learning to their own teaching environments.

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Instructional Materials Strategy Training Professional Learning 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Because there aren’t many alternatives, they did this despite concerns about the quality of materials. Photo: Jackie Mader. Now is the time of year when U.S.

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Resources Instructional Materials OER Elementary 106

edWeb.net

APRIL 2, 2025

Algebra success can have other ripple effects, too; for example, students who choose to go to college will have higher chances of graduating with less debt. Support for both students AND teachers is vital when developing comprehensive math instruction systems. Implementation requires ownership.

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Outcomes Instructional Materials Course Adaptive Learning 62

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

When writing or talking about the text, students wound up using pronouns to refer to themselves rather than the characters (as they do in traditional novels), for example, “I know where to go.” Research and pedagogy unequivocally point to digital game-based learning as an instructional methodology that can improve literacy skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Create high-quality curriculum and assessments for English learners in STEM Curriculum developers, teachers and researchers should work together to develop instructional materials and resources that take into account the range of English learners’ needs.

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STEM Policies Assessment Report 167

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating. But he hopes that such tools are used like textbooks or instructional materials, not as replacements for human instructors. “If

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Mission: Mars is a great example of putting the core learning objective, building and iterating for specific mechanical tasks and conditions, at the center of fun, rich experience design.”

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STEM Instructional Materials Analysis Data 128

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together. And look at examples of tangible rather than screen-based technologies that have been produced by groups like Paulo Blikstein’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. Look at the altMBA program that Seth Godin runs using Slack. Lesson 5.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

For example: California’s debate about revisions to its statewide math framework included provisions to shake up math instruction, in an attempt to keep it rigorous but also find a way to narrow achievement gaps among students of different races and income levels. And that impacts the development of materials, she argues.

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Edmentum Company Industry Guidelines 158

Educate AI Magazine

MARCH 1, 2025

Examples include ChatGPT, Perplexity, character.ai, and Claude. Early examples include Anthropics computer use to operate online interfaces like a human; Salesforces AgentForce automating workflows in customer service, marketing, and sales for their customers; and Replits agent for software development.

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Software EdTech Industry Data 59

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

—Natalie Franzi, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Middletown Township Schools 2. Empower teachers to personalize instruction Ultimately, it comes down to the teacher. No advancement in classroom technology or instructional materials will ever have the impact of a passionate, empowered teacher.

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