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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

Bir is working to add a feature that would let users upvote resources they found helpful, he adds. But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do? The project reflects work that libraries have been doing for a long time, says Steven Bell, an associate university librarian at Temple University.

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Find related classroom resources below. Photo by Carol M. But We Can’t Teach?

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

But as more districts sign the #GoOpen initiative to replace a traditional textbook adoption with OERs, the challenge of combing through a world of content and finding the best resources that align to a district’s curriculum becomes more difficult.

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A possible solution to one college cost problem: free books

The Hechinger Report

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley on Friday, April 10, 2015. College students in Rhode Island will save a collective $5 million a year if a plan to replace traditional textbooks with free materials is effective. Most faculty members had a “very positive response” to the idea of open educational resources, Sánchez said.

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