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60+ Great Educational Websites

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

I only included a sample click on the list to access the entire collection. To provide you with an easy way to access these resources, I compiled for you the list below featuring some of the best science websites and platforms. The web is full of resources that you can use to bring science to life in and outside of your classroom.

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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

Edsurge

Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 The company invited her on an all-expense-paid trip to its annual conference on teaching at its headquarters in San Francisco. Or, as she put it, “It gave me an idea that at least I was on track.”

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

Edsurge

Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July. It convenes an annual conference for instructors focused on professional development. According to the EdSurge database, U.S.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

Edsurge

Some employees heard the news on a conference call. Planet3 agreed to earth and life science curriculum with supplemental lesson plans and free 24-hour access to the platform for students, teachers and parents. And he had interest from educators who wanted to try Planet3 in schools that included the Las Vegas area.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. Historically owners of content aren’t really excited about changing models for accessing the content.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Buzzfeed : DREAMer “Daniela Vargas was detained by federal agents moments after leaving a news conference where she spoke about her fear of being deported.” ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc.