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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011. It now contains more than 15.7

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad. It may be a matter of what kind of expectations you’re bringing to your evaluation.

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10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom

The Thinking Stick

Google Maps has been out for 10 years now. In 2007…8 years ago now… Apple put a map in our pocket. With that in mind here are 10 ways you could use Google Maps in the classroom. Google Sightseeing blog: View some of the great images from around the world. Latitude Longitude Scavenger Hunts. Earth Picker.

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Buffering: A Recap of a Weekend Google Summit

EdTechTeam

Cross-post from Anderson EdTech Over the weekend of January 28-29, I attended the EdTechTeam's Las Vegas Google Summit. In my defense, I had her in the 2007-2008 school year, so it had been a long time since I had seen her. The last session that I attended was on the various Google certification program.

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Five Learning Strategies that Work

Digital Promise

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Karpicke, J. Karpicke, J.

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. Not wanting to bore you with too many details, I do want to share this little nostalgic journey with you… February 7, 2008 – What a way to turn the day around. I am the IT Director at Qatar Academy, Doha, Qatar at this time.

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Are we more intelligent?

Learning with 'e's

This perspective is championed by Nicholas Carr (2011), who provocatively argues that habituated use of search tools such as Google is 'making us stupid'. In his original publication, Andrew Keen (2007), was adamant that the Internet is undermining the authority of academics and is a threat to our culture and society. London: W.