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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). I managed to grab some of his time to ask him a few questions about his work.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unlike mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing, these tools are academically focused providing you with results that are most likely to be relevant to your search queries. Google Scholar Google Scholar is Google's search engine for academic and scholarly literature. Only you can see the articles in your library.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Google and Facebook both announced that they would try to eliminate fake news from appearing in their result lists and newsfeeds by blocking fake news sources from using their ad networks. A Google reverse image search can help discover the source of an image and its possible variations. Fake news is not new. Be suspicious of pictures!:

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

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Google)’s biotech company, Calico. ” Tuition keeps going up and up and up, although as The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, published tuition rates only rose 2.4% The Department of Education echoed that data , announcing in September that “the three-year federal student loan cohort default rate dropped from 11.8

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. million in E-Rate rebates.). Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company.