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Q&A with TJ Bliss: It’s an exciting time for open educational resources
About a month ago, Hewlett Foundation’s open educational resources grantees gathered in Canada to reflect on progress in the OER field and how equity plays a role. Coming out of the conference, we asked education program officer TJ Bliss what trends he’s keeping an...
LearnZillion, Lemann Foundation Partner on Curriculum in Brazil
LearnZillion, an American content developer, is partnering with a foundation and a Brazilian educational platform on a project aimed at providing curriculum aligned to the standards of South America’s most populous country. The goal of the project is to create...
New Little Free Library in Princeton
Marked by a surfboard casually leaning against a fence and bejeweled in beads, shells and other found objects, there’s a little blue box with a big idea behind it in Princeton. The idea is to make books more readily available to everyone.
OER: One Size Does Not Fit All
Even though we are a #GoOpen launch district, my tech-savvy school board asked for a report that would explain open educational resources (OER). Since OER multiply faster than rabbits and have been known to disappear in a poof, this is an edited version that includes...
Letting Students Lead
Students are leading collaboration and change at South San Francisco High School with Action Collabs.It is 11:00 pm on the last night of Big Ideas Fest and I am in the library with students and teachers from South San Francisco High School having a lively...