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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20. The conference will be held entirely online and is free to attend.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). DeMillo traces a struggle in American universities between practical learning and liberal education, starting with the Morrill Act ( 1862 ) and Columbia University’s reinvention of the undergraduate curriculum (1126 et al).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - Eliot The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. National Library Week.

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” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” Upgrades and Downgrades. Top Hat has raised $7.5