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Free At-Home Learning Content During Crisis

eSchool News

Here is a closer look at Follett’s company-wide eLearning resources that are being made available at libraries, schools and universities in communities across North America affected by the COVID-19 virus: Follett School Solutions (PreK-12). To access the free ebooks, visit www.Follett.com/RedShelf. Students must have an “.edu”

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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

Edsurge

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. The Double-Dipping Problem.

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Keep Calm and Read On

The Daring Librarian

Here's a kind of mirrored post that I put out on my Daring School Library blog for my kids, parents, and community. Since our schools closed down last Friday companies have been very generous and forthcoming to provide FREE resources for our quarantined or grounded kiddos. Don't have eBooks, a Kindle device, or other Digital Reader?

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

Hack Education

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? Google)’s biotech company, Calico. “Long Live Online Higher Education.”

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

This change is the result of overpriced textbooks which drove students towards less expensive sources like eBooks, used textbooks, rental books etc. But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? a semester.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). His rather disastrous business history in ed-tech includes SoftKey and The Learning Company. Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” The New York Times on The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , an online charter school: “Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students.”