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Textbook policies in an increasingly digital age
The World Bank is revising its Operational Guidelines for Textbooks and Reading Materials [pdf]. Commonly referred to as our 'textbook policy', this is a guidance document for our ‘clients’ and...
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Textbooks of the future: Will you be buying a product ... or a service?
The World Bank is currently working with a few countries that are planning for the procurement of lots of digital learning materials. In some cases, these are billed as 'e-textbooks', replacing in...
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Mapping Open Educational Resources Around The World
In the decade since the term 'open education resources' was formally identified and adopted by UNESCO, related "teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with...
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Who owns the content and data produced in schools?
Last year an article on Mashable made waves among some of the people I follow on Twitter. Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online (a later article bumped the figure up to...
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Calculating the costs of digital textbook initiatives in Africa
A few countries across Africa are considering rather ambitious initiatives to roll out and utilize digital textbooks, a general catch-all term or metaphor which I understand in many circumstances to be...
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A few myths and misconceptions about digital teaching and learning materials...
Across Africa, a variety of devices are increasingly being used to disseminate and display teaching and learning materials in electronic and digital formats. As costs for such devices continue to...
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Investing in digital teaching and learning resources: Ten recommendations for...
Following up on previousblogposts exploring issues related to planning for new investments in digital teaching and learning materials to be used across education systems, I thought I'd share some of...
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