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Access State-Reviewed Instructional Materials with SETDA’s Dashboard

edWeb.net

Now education decision makers across America can see detailed reviews compiled in multiple states, to facilitate the evaluation and purchase of print and digital materials for students and teachers. About the Presenters. This edWeb webinar referenced above was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

When our presentations and our writing and our speaking and our advocacy focus primarily on ways that OER alleviate the cost problem, we’re actually doing exactly what publishers want. Materials inevitably speak from a single perspective, and multiple viewpoints cannot be integrated directly into materials. Can you see it?

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

eSchool News

These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s.

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For two states, the digital transition requires an overhaul of the process

edWeb.net

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. About the Presenters. This article was modified and published by EdScoop.

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What You Need to Know About Teaching Cybersecurity

edWeb.net

In a recent edWebinar , Casey O’Brien, Executive Director, National CyberWatch Center, and Jim Kowatch, CEO, Infosec Learning, underscored that to fill the demand for cybersecurity experts, secondary and higher education should focus their attention on developing cybersecurity courses that are rooted in IT operations and applications.

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OER: Some Questions and Answers

Iterating Toward Openness

The questions from the article are presented in bold ; unattributed blockquotes are from the original article.). There is a growing body of research demonstrating that OER can be just as effective – or more effective – than commercial materials. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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ASSESSMENT AND RUBRICS

Kathy Schrock

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 five-part tutorial on rubric creation and implementation Developing and using instructional rubrics.a