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HP Announces 2024 Digital Equity Accelerator Cohort

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Dienstag, April 16, 2024
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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) and the HP Foundation announced the selection of 10 nonprofit organizations in Brazil, Canada*, and Poland for the 2024 Digital Equity Accelerator (Accelerator). The Accelerator will provide the 2024 cohort with a USD $100,000 grant, HP technology (~USD $100,000 value), and six months of virtual training to foster digital inclusion.

Key Points: 
  • The Digital Equity Accelerator, a joint initiative of HP Inc. and the HP Foundation, helps nonprofits strengthen capacity and scale digital inclusion programs.
  • PALO ALTO, Calif., April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) and the HP Foundation announced the selection of 10 nonprofit organizations in Brazil, Canada*, and Poland for the 2024 Digital Equity Accelerator (Accelerator).
  • The Accelerator will provide the 2024 cohort with a USD $100,000 grant, HP technology (~USD $100,000 value), and six months of virtual training to foster digital inclusion.
  • The Digital Equity Accelerator is one way HP is delivering progress toward its goal to accelerate digital equity for 150 million people by 2030.

Rice's OpenStax awarded $90M to lead first-of-its-kind NSF research hub for transformational learning and education research

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Mittwoch, April 24, 2024
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HOUSTON, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenStax at Rice University was awarded $90 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development (R&D) hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit tens of millions of students and their instructors across all educational levels.

Key Points: 
  • SafeInsights will enable extensive, long-term research on the predictors of effective learning while protecting student privacy.
  • This five-year project represents the NSF's largest single investment in R&D infrastructure for education at a national scale.
  • "We are thrilled to announce an investment of $90 million in SafeInsights, marking a significant step forward in our commitment to advancing scientific research in STEM education," NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said.
  • "There is an urgent need for research-informed strategies capable of transforming educational systems, empowering our nation's workforce and propelling discoveries in the science of learning.

GotIt! Education Offers MathGPT™ Free to All State and Community Colleges in the US - First Agent based, Accuracy-Driven Gen AI Teacher Assistant and Tutor for Any Math Classroom

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Mittwoch, April 10, 2024
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"Too many schools can't afford AI," said Peter Relan, Chairman of, and investor in GotIt! Education. "With MathGPT now free, schools can try AI-based tutors -- but without a hit on already tight budgets.  Our free MathGPT Essentials program also enables schools to switch from poorly functioning AI tutors that are actually slowing adoption of AI technology in education."

Key Points: 
  • "With MathGPT now free, schools can try AI-based tutors -- but without a hit on already tight budgets.
  • Our free MathGPT Essentials program also enables schools to switch from poorly functioning AI tutors that are actually slowing adoption of AI technology in education."
  • Course Management - the ability to create customized courses by uploading a set of educational content which will automatically get incorporated; 2.
  • Grounded AI Tutor - an accurate, personalized, infinitely patient, AI tutor with student input evaluation/correction for each step.

Labster and OpenStax Partner to Expand Equitable Access to Interactive Science Learning

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Dienstag, April 2, 2024
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“Making science education more accessible to all learners everywhere has been Labster’s core vision since its founding.

Key Points: 
  • “Making science education more accessible to all learners everywhere has been Labster’s core vision since its founding.
  • “Partnering with Labster as one of our valued OpenStax Allies enables the OpenStax library of peer-reviewed, customizable, free digital science content to connect directly with Labster’s immersive learning platform for science simulations.
  • OER and OpenStax have become central to the learning materials landscape for postsecondary courses.
  • Instructors and program leaders can contact Labster with their course title and learning objectives or an existing syllabus and they will receive a syllabus that aligns their topics with relevant OpenStax chapters and Labster science simulations.

Open Education Pioneer Taps Educational Video Platform to Boost Student Engagement; Increase Access to High-Quality Learning Materials

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Donnerstag, Februar 29, 2024
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BOSTON, Feb. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Boclips, the world's largest curated educational video distribution platform, today announced a new initiative designed to boost student engagement in college and high school courses using OpenStax high quality resources. Thanks to a new partnership with the social annotation platform Perusall, educators nationwide can now access Boclips' rich library of videos and podcasts aligned to OpenStax resources across a wide range of academic subjects.

Key Points: 
  • Using Perusall's platform, educators can annotate text, create assignments, ask students questions, and monitor engagement with material and videos to facilitate a more engaging learning experience.
  • "Today, it's more important than ever to find creative ways to expand access to video content that is relevant, accessible, and curated to suit a given curriculum.
  • Perusall shares our vision of expanding access to high-quality learning materials, and we look forward to collaborating with them in support of educators and learners nationwide."
  • He continues, "This partnership underscores our commitment to serving the needs and preferences of the students and instructors we serve."

New Kiddom Partnerships Offer Districts Phenomenon-Based Science Curricula for Grades 6-12 in English and Spanish

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Montag, Januar 8, 2024
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As such, we are exceptionally pleased to announce partnerships with OpenSciEd, OpenStax, Labster, and Slooh."

Key Points: 
  • As such, we are exceptionally pleased to announce partnerships with OpenSciEd, OpenStax, Labster, and Slooh."
  • OpenSciEd is a core curriculum where students engage in science exploration through phenomenon-based, three-dimensional units that prioritize understanding and sensemaking.
  • With Kiddom, teachers using these high quality science solutions will leverage time-saving lesson planning and instructional delivery tools, including actionable student performance reporting.
  • All Kiddom Science curricula, including the Texas, Florida, and Tennessee editions, will be available for the 2024-25 school year.

PhotoStudy Maker GotIt! Announces MathGPT Platform for Content Publishers and Educators with GPT-based Personalized AI for Interactive Text, Audio, and Video Learning

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Mittwoch, März 15, 2023
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PALO ALTO, Calif., March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GotIt!, the publisher of PhotoStudy, the first on-demand micro-tutoring network developed by Hung Tran and the GotIt! team in 2015 at Peter Relan's YouWeb Incubator, announced today that the recently announced MathGPT project will be broadened to a platform for a variety of applications in Math education. These applications include next generation textbook publishing and video content publishing, personalized tutoring, teacher assignments and assessments, and even classroom teaching. They will be based on OpenAI's recently announced ChatGPT API plus a layer of GotIt!'s proprietary AI models, training techniques, and human-in-the-loop network for extremely accurate and engaging content. An example of an interactive video tutoring application for an OpenStax algebra textbook can be found here.

Key Points: 
  • Multi-Modal MathGPT Platform to combine ChatGPT and an interactive audio and video AI for Math learning applications including textbook publishing, personalized tutoring, content publishing, assessment tools, and teacher training tools.
  • These applications include next generation textbook publishing and video content publishing, personalized tutoring, teacher assignments and assessments, and even classroom teaching.
  • With the MathGPT Platform, learners will be able to learn any topic, any time from any teaching persona's video character approved by the MathGPT Platform.
  • Content publishers will be able to bring their content into the MathGPT Platform for delivery through a Generative AI model.

THE MATH TRANSLATOR ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH OPENSTAX

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Mittwoch, Februar 1, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Math Translator, who provides an extensive collection of textbook-aligned video instruction specific to the OpenStax math textbooks, is announcing a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to education for all students by providing free, high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks.  With hundreds of lecture videos and thousands of homework exercise videos aligned to each section of each chapter in every book, The Math Translator will help OpenStax address student demand for high-quality video instruction in mathematics.

Key Points: 
  • The Math Translator, the world's only comprehensive video lecture resource tailored specifically to the OpenStax math textbooks, announces strategic partnership with OpenStax, addressing student demand for high-quality video instruction.
  • WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Math Translator, who provides an extensive collection of textbook-aligned video instruction specific to the OpenStax math textbooks, is announcing a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to education for all students by providing free, high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks.
  • With hundreds of lecture videos and thousands of homework exercise videos aligned to each section of each chapter in every book, The Math Translator will help OpenStax address student demand for high-quality video instruction in mathematics.
  • To learn more about The Math Translator, register for a free webinar on February 8th, 2023 at 9am PST.

PhotoStudy announces ChatGPT-like Chatbot for Math Textbooks and their Publishers

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Freitag, Januar 27, 2023
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PhotoStudy, the first on-demand micro-tutoring platform and service developed by Hung Tran in 2015, announced today that it has successfully used OpenAI's GPT APIs  to train a ChatGPT-like chatbot to teach a complete elementary algebra textbook as a chatbot, with extremely high accuracy. Textbook publishers and teachers can now transform their textbooks and teaching with a ChatGPT-like assistant that can teach all the material in a textbook, assess student progress, provide personalized help in weaker areas, generate quizzes with support for text, images, audio and ultimately a student customized avatar for video interaction. Interested independent, small or large publishers are invited to contact the PhotoStudy team to join the private beta for transforming their textbooks into next generation experiences, at mathgpt.photostudy.co

Key Points: 
  • We also want to support teachers and schools with the content they are already teaching, yet transform textbook publishing: textbooks are not inexpensive.
  • But now there is an inexpensive way to get the most out of Project "MathGPT," said Hung Tran, Founder of PhotoStudy.
  • "We know that ChatGPT-like experiences are challenged when it comes to Math," said Raghav Rastogi, principal data scientist and AI lead for PhotoStudy.
  • The company plans to introduce MathGPT with one or two of the most popular math textbooks for Fall 2023, working with the publishers.

Boclips, the world's largest educationally curated video platform, announces strategic partnership with OpenStax, addressing student demand for video-enriched content

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Donnerstag, November 3, 2022
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Boclips pedagogically maps 1000s of videos to OpenStax textbooks, helping users address student demand for rich media.

Key Points: 
  • Boclips pedagogically maps 1000s of videos to OpenStax textbooks, helping users address student demand for rich media.
  • "The digital transformation of the education industry has illuminated both the value and the demand for video-based learning experiences," said David Bainbridge, Founder and CEO of Boclips.
  • As stakeholders rethink how education should look today, it's crucial they hear the student calls for modernization and flexible modes of learning."
  • Boclips is the industry's trusted destination for rich media that are vetted for quality, sourced from leading creators, and curated to academic standards.