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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

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It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. Teachers do them on a mobile device or a laptop, or they do them one-on-one with kids. And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved.

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Register Now for the Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. Gross President & CEO, Howard County Library System (Maryland) @valeriejgross Valerie J. Recordings from previous years are available under the Archives tab at Library 2.0

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Final Schedule - Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. Gross President & CEO, Howard County Library System (Maryland) @valeriejgross Valerie J. Please also join this Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Library 2.017: EXPERTISE, COMPETENCIES, AND CAREERS

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. Gross President & CEO, Howard County Library System (Maryland) @valeriejgross Valerie J. We encourage all who are interested in presenting to submit.

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Preventing Student Debt Problems Begins With Financial Literacy Education

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These were the messages that influenced their decisions to pay exorbitant tuition prices when choosing their academic and career pathways, ultimately leading many underprepared and fiscally ignorant souls to secure student loans in an effort to reach economic mobility. However, insufficient financial literacy is also partly to blame.

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Needing students, Appalachian colleges reach out to fast-growing Hispanic population

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to go too far from the mobile home park where she’s grown up in Conover, North Carolina, when she goes to college. It’s less than four miles from the Paradise Valley Mobile Home Park, where the Cantus and other mostly Hispanic Catholic families live. citizen, as per the rules of North Carolina’s community college system.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In addition to policy and country reviews, the work of the Directorate includes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), and the development and analysis of benchmarks on the performance of education systems (INES).