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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The web is teeming with social and professional platforms where you can network with other professionals in your field most important of these platforms are Twitter, LinkedIn, and Researchgate. Free and premium online courses Gone are the days when you need to go through a whole process in order to access paywalled knowledge.

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

TeacherCast

You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. He will be happy to meet you on Facebook and Twitter. . This is a search engine for peer-reviewed journal articles and academic papers, especially useful for scientific research papers.

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

Learning with 'e's

How long will it be before these media disrupt the hegemony the large publishing houses such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley currently impose upon the academic world?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” 2 Post at Ed. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. “ Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites,” TorrentFreak reports. Via Buzzfeed : “After Reporting Abuse , Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse.” ” asks NPR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Anyway, here’s Richard Smith on Elsevier and “A Big Brother future for science publishing.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. More on legal settlements with for-profits in the for-profit higher ed section below. " No s**t. million total. Disclosure alert.).