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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

While this blog is based on verifiable data, some readers may be unhappy with my interpretation. Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. Source: Wired.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. We shall see. An example?

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled. TurnItIn was acquired by the media conglomerate Advance Publications last year for $1.75 A judge ruled, however, in 2008 that students' copyright was not infringed upon as they'd agreed to the Terms of Service.

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Can Marketing Automation Bring College Enrollment Numbers Up?

Edsurge

Getting students to graduate remains a greater challenge: In 2014, 60 percent of students seeking a bachelor’s degree at a four-year college in 2008 completed their degrees by 2014, according to the U.S. And increasingly, colleges are shifting to digital marketing strategies, social media outreach and mobile platforms.

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Students as citizen archivists and scientists: The new community service?

NeverEndingSearch

In fact, in 2008, the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division began to recruit volunteers to improve the findability of thousands of photographs using its Flickr Commons to identify people, places and additional data. NARA’s Mary King recently announced a new social media project.

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

It was published by Routledge in 2008 and is now also available as a Kindle reader version. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future. This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology.

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Announcing the Library 2.017 "Makerspaces" Mini-Conference and Call for Proposals.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To Please also join this Library 2.0 Details HERE.