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Changing The Way The World Learns

Open Education Solutions is a blended learning service provider. We help states, districts and school networks design schools and solutions that are innovative, personalized and deliver better results at the same or lower cost.

Our Services include:
Open Resource Planning
School Improvement
Blended Learning Support
Professional Development
$100,000 Essay Scoring Prize Awarded
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Prize Means More Writing, Deeper Learning for US Students
With the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Open Education Solutions announced the winners of the $100,000 Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP) this morning in Washington DC. The top three teams, made up of international data scientists, developed predictive algorithms that were able to score thousands of essays very quickly with remarkable accuracy compared to expert graders. MORE »
Measurement is Friend Not Foe to Creativity
A writer in the Daily Iowan is worried about automated essay scoring killing creativity. He confused two issues. The online scoring engines use the same rubrics to score essays as human graders. The answer is more assessment not less, but much of it will occur in the background behind engaging learning activities. MORE »

What is Blended Learning?

Blended learning is an intentional shift for at least a portion of the student day to an on-line environment to boost learning & operating productivity. The blended learning model integrates face-to-face classroom time with on-line learning; facilitated at all times by a classroom teacher, combining the effectiveness and socialization of the classroom with technologically enhanced on-line materials. Development of adaptive, primarily open source, and engaging content will boost motivation, achievement, and completion while enabling lower cost by enabling differentiated and distributed staffing models.

Michael Horn
Rise of Blended Learning
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