A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

If results were not what our stakeholders wanted this would then trigger meetings leading to the development of action plans to get us back on course. Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010. Students now have access to over 250 unique courses that cater to their interests.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

In Germany, there’s #OERcamp , a series of informal meetups for educators that’s been running since 2012. The Open Textbook Network has curated the Open Textbook Library , which links to nearly 700 titles. Crawlers Even with collections, it can be difficult for instructors to find the right resources for their courses.

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OER Resources Education Report 189

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio. What started as a conference room became the Creation Station, a large open-concept space for students in Grades Pre K-2.

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Maker Movement Robotics Learning Elementary 317

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Tomorrow is our second Library 2.020 mini-conference! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Copenhagen-based Labster, founded in 2012, plans to use the money toward content development and expansion in the U.S Labster previously raised $525,000 in seed funding in 2012. The three companies and ASU then built a series of online courses that students can use toward a bachelor’s degree in biology.

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Lenovo Classroom Company Course 108

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

The pitch was that Knewton’s technology could help them glean where students may be struggling as they worked through course materials, and surface the appropriate content at the right time. Combined, the two companies say they will have 44,000 textbook titles, many of which are expected to be added to the Unlimited library.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 144

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

We have two new Library 2.0 First is the return of Dr. Steve Albrecht with " Coaching Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors: Getting Better Performance and Behavior From Your Employees One Meeting at a Time " on February 12th. OVERVIEW : Library marketing can be effective without the expense of hiring a marketing and PR firm.

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media MOOC 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Please consider joining us for this special Library 2.0 OVERVIEW: Library marketing can be effective without the expense of hiring a marketing and PR firm. OVERVIEW: Library marketing can be effective without the expense of hiring a marketing and PR firm. You will first need to be a member of Library 2.0

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media MOOC 28

Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 12, 2016

Edtech guru, Terry Freedman, introducing me to London’s digital library (2012). He also presents and trains teachers face to face and online (see upcoming courses here ). In my Master’s course, I was introduced to Alfie Kohn’s theories on rewards and competition. What did you learn from the experience?

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Facebook Libraries EdTech Course 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. Now it is selling all the course content developed for those free courses to colleges that want to use the materials in their own campus programs. At least a few colleges had already purchased those licensing plans.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

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MOOC Coursera Course Trends 105

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy.

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Training Digital Divide Tools Education 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012.

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MOOC Coursera Digital Badges Course 164

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 28, 2018

Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library since scaled to more than 20 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students.

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OER Adaptive Learning Outcomes Libraries 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

TEXARKANA, Texas — “Hope” was a popular word during the 2012 election season. But a money crisis wasn’t the only challenge Texarkana College was facing in 2012. The college switched to a co-requisite model, meaning students take supplemental math and English courses alongside college-level ones. There were physical changes, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As demand for low-cost, high-quality materials increased during the Great Recession, the nonprofit project shifted from curation to creation, publishing its first five free textbooks in 2012. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles.

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Industry OER Course Company 107

edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

As controversies about the pandemic, climate change, and social justice continue to make headlines, these same topics also provide opportunities for students to learn and apply media literacy skills that will help them with their course work, personal lives, and civic engagement.

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Learning Libraries Course STEM 97

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College.

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Education Report Libraries Trends 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Centers for teaching and learning worked with IT support in new ways to help instructors move courses online. While online classes do not work well for young children, many college courses worked well enough to demonstrate new potential for a post-pandemicfuture. He became Stanford’s first vice provost for online learning in 2012.

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Learning Course System Groups 83

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Learning 2.0 ( [link] ) August 20 - 24, 2012 Just announced! Library 2.012 ( [link] ) October 3 - 5, 2012 In its second year, the Library 2.012 conference is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. They are part of my Web 2.0 can be found ?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. This means that the educators who spend time designing the curriculum and building the course earn pennies on the dollar compared to the profits now earned by the Silicon Valley platforms where the courses are hosted.

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Online Learning MOOC lynda.com Industry 68

esri

JUNE 29, 2017

We also believe that GIS needs to be included in every person’s formal education from primary to university level and offered in informal settings such as libraries, museums, and in after-school programs. Watch [link] for announcements, and please consider applying to the 2012 T3G institute or telling your colleagues about it.

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Secondary Training Libraries Course 40

edWeb.net

MAY 3, 2017

edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner ! I first met Michelle Luhtala on an AASL site visit the year the New Canaan (CT) High School Library earned the National School Library Program of the Year.

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Social Media Libraries Future Ready Conference 41

The Daring Librarian

JUNE 3, 2012

Mirrored & adapted from my MHMS Daring School Library Blog Keep Reading: Summer Reading for Kids, Librarians, & GAMERS! I love loaning my adorable kids (my students) over to my local public library for the summer. Of course not as much as *I* do but pretty close! We''re A+ partners and they love my kids, too!

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Libraries Wiki Gamification Twitter 58

EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Notes from David Jakes Keynote Fall 2012 TCEA TECSIG Meeting October 4, 2012 Austin, Texas All resources posted at davidjakes.me Has been offering open online courses for 10 years. More students have successfully completed a course on circut design since it''s been online than in the 40 years of face-to-face only prior to that.

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Technology Learning Mobility Tablets 69

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Modest gains started to emerge in 2012, four years after the district began its laptop program. Later in 2012, Mooresville’s test score gains started to outpace those in neighboring counties. Instead, the Mooresville district cut the library budget and shifted other things around to pay for it.

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Laptops Survey Analysis Study 82

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2013

As a pre-conference event for the Library 2.013 annual conference starting October 18th, we''re hosting a short series of free online sessions this coming Monday. If you need to see them in your own time zone, go to the schedule page at Library 2.013 and find your link by that time zone. The times show are US-Eastern Daylight Time.

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Blackboard Libraries Mobility Android 58

Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

I don't work in a school or a library. I don't maintain the learning management system or the library management software. I don't help faculty move their courses online. No one ever hires me to say "everything's going to be okay,” of course. Some futurists do build models, of course. I don't teach.

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Khan Academy Course Conference Technology 126

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. When a leading research university announces the removal of more than 20,000 course videos and podcasts from the public, in response to a U.S. As noted by Judge Harold Baer in the 2012 lower court decision in the Authors Guild, Inc. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report.

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Accessibility Resources Guidelines Libraries 46

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As I mentioned last time around (or in 2012) , presidential elections present ultimate, authentic teachable moments, opportunities for us to exploring a variety of literacies with learners at all levels. And here are just a few resources to get the thinking started: Of course, editorial cartoons are rich for analysis and class discussion.

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Analysis Libraries Course Report 40

The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The Library 2.012 Worldwide Virtual Conference - October 3 - 5 "The virtual Library 2.012 conference is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. Attendance is free; sign up at Library 2012 to attend or to be kept informed." -- from the #Lib20102 site!

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Common Core Wiki Conference Libraries 64

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2012

Date : Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). psid=2012-02-01.1618.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 They call it the “Open Course Library.”

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Policies Blackboard Libraries Course 51

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am taking, Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). and 0.82, respectively (Hattie, 2012). DOI: 10.12698/cpre.2011.rr68.

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Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am currently Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). and 0.82, respectively (Hattie, 2012). DOI: 10.12698/cpre.2011.rr68.

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Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

At first, the university provided iPad Minis to incoming undergraduates and worked to build a library of custom electronic textbooks written by faculty members. Professors can send links and update the course materials on iTunesU and all the students will get instant notification.” She also appreciates the iPad’s portability.

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