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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Jon has written and co-authored ten books that have been translated into thirteen languages. In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. We have John Bergmann with us and he's written 11 books. It's amazing.

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Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

Edsurge

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Dave Eggers on Finding Creative Refuge From the ‘Lunacy’ of Technology

Edsurge

That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. EdSurge: You’ve written many novels, children’s books and stories for newspapers and magazines. We did a book about teachers’ lives and salaries, called “ Teachers Have It Easy.”

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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

Edsurge

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

techlearning

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” Walters also has extensive experience in the non-profit sector including as chair of Book Aid International, a charity that equips libraries in sub-Saharan African countries with textbooks and readers.

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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

Confusion over the meaning of the word “free” (e.g., ‘if my company uses programs licensed as free software, does that mean I can’t charge customers?’) ’) was the original fear, uncertainty, and doubt that kept companies from engaging in this work. I was a music major from West Virginia.

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Live Tuesday March 20th with Cathy Davidson on the Brain Science of Attention

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, March 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Cathy Davidson to talk about her new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Davidson is the Ruth F.