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Education Department announces new open educational resources hire, college website
Lestch, Corinne

Published15 September 2015
Publisheredscoop, Scoop News Group
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
Andrew Marcinek was hired by the Office of Educational Technology to work on connecting K-12 and higher ed schools to openly licensed educational resources.

Keywords college scorecard · Department of Education · Education IT News · higher education · Open Educational Resources · policy

Published atWashington, D.C
RefereedDoes not apply
RightsCopyright 2018 Edscoop. All rights reserved.
URLhttps://edscoop.com/education-department-announces-new-open-educational-resources-hire-college-website
Access date3/15/2018
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