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

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries. But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being.

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Physical Bookstores in The Digital Age

Ask a Tech Teacher

You’ll find Alex has written a thoughtful analysis of what’s going on with physical bookstores in an ebook era: The Future of Physical Bookstores in the Digital Age. When Amazon released the Kindle in 2007 authors began to see the end of times. Data-safety tools tester with over 10yrs experience. Author bio: .

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Data-Driven or Data-Informed? Thoughts on trust and evaluation in education

Reading By Example

Data-informed or data-driven? What I have found is that the usefulness of student data to inform instruction and accountability rests on the level of trust that exists within the school walls. First there is trust in the data itself. and “Who owns the student data?”. Could a similar situation happen in education?

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Data-Driven or Data-Informed? Thoughts on trust and evaluation in education

Reading By Example

Data-informed or data-driven? What I have found is that the usefulness of student data to inform instruction and accountability rests on the level of trust that exists within the school walls. First there is trust in the data itself. and “Who owns the student data?”. Could a similar situation happen in education?

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Virtual Reality and Learning: - Announcing the Mini-Conference and the Call for Proposals

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. Please also join this Library 2.0

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What If Students Didn’t Have to Leave Community Colleges to Earn Bachelor’s Degrees?

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Yet less than one-fifth do so within six years, according to the most recent data from the Community College Research Center. Somebody’s Got to Do It’ Data about the outcomes of community college bachelor’s pathways do indeed look promising so far. The college won state approval for new programs in 2007.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. percent national average.

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