The Principal of Change

MAY 15, 2018

What do you think when you hear the word “access” when it comes to education and our students? At first, when you hear the term “access,” many people think about things like access to technology and the Internet. What about access to high-quality learning opportunities in every classroom?

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

In an interview with EdSurge, Maggioncalda said the fundraising process started in May, a couple months after it made its library of online courses available for free, through September 30, to any higher-ed institution closed by the pandemic. To date, Coursera has raised $464 million, according to CEO Jeff Maggioncalda.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. With most students having access to a smartphone, the ability for students to collaborate and produce short films is effortless.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference, "Emerging Technology," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to register now to participate in this event.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2013

This is the official call for presentation proposals for the Library 2.013 Worldwide Virtual Conference, October 18 - 19, 2013 (in some time zones the conference will conclude on the 20th). How does your library manage digital collections? How does your library manage digital collections? Is your library mobile friendly?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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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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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. Webinars gives you access to the live Webinar, as well as any-time access to the recording afterward.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This is a GREAT week for library learning and conversations! Then our fourth annual (and free) Future of Libraries conference, Library 2.014, starts on Wednesday, October 8th, at 10:00am US-Eastern Time with the opening keynote by conference co-chair Dr. Sandra Hirsh from the School of Information at San José State University.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs. Well, at least partially open.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Makerspaces," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 11th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). There has been a lot of talk about makerspaces in libraries over the past four years. and at the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 12, 2015

With technology changing so rapidly, how can libraries, organizations, and individuals stay abreast of the economic, social, and ethical ramifications of innovations and prepare successfully for the future? The MOOC had a massive global reach, but “there is a need to continue to prepare for the emerging future,” stated Alman.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. We’re moving toward microlearning—90 minute or shorter sessions.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Join this free Library Journal webcast covering the highlights of each one and offering key takeaways. Register here.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This week we’re discussing the first chapter of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). A larger theme, hit more forcefully in the book’s introduction, is broadening access to higher education.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Some proposed furthering real savings through virtual solutions, such as VR labs and libraries. Jill Buban put it this way, “Schools using prior learning assessment models can have a big opportunity to reduce money with MOOCs and other alternative credits.” But what should the role of employers be in addressing educational costs?

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

When the crowd gets above 40 (I think) Shindig breaks people up into multiple rooms accessible through a Mingle Bar on the bottom of the screen, like so: . Educational technology : I noted stories about MOOCs growing, social media, 3d printing stretching across the curriculum, brainstorming about VR and automation.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 30, 2016

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing the last full chapter, “A Social Contract.” and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there).

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Smith: A college is a vertical stack, and if you go back 50 or 60 years, colleges cooked their own food, they mowed their own lawns, they stocked their own libraries and they controlled their own faculty, or their own faculty controlled them. It doesn’t matter where you are in terms of having access to knowledge or content.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. Growing Trend It’s not exactly a movement yet, but MEDSKL is part of a small trend of discipline-focused video libraries.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. Whether that ends up helping accessibility (through lower prices) or diminishing quality and how seriously students take the learning process, or a mix of both, is still up for debate.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

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. Huge thank to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University, the founding conference sponsor!

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 4, 2016

We’re coming up on the end of our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). In contrast is the story of one MOOC, which exemplifies how easily those projects can see their reputation punctured.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The first, he describes as "A move to opening up learning, making it more accessible and flexible. Photo from VCU Libraries A growing divide? digital age education flipped classroom learning mobile technology MOOC pedagogy Technology' Some would argue that this is a trend that has been gathering pace for the last decade or more.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Join us this Thursday, April 30th, 2015 for the online Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , a three-hour conversation about technology issues and trends in the future of library and information services with an amazing set of guest panelists and presenters. PART 1: Chasing Storms or Rainbows?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. How does your library manage digital collections? How does your library manage digital collections?

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Without access to a copy, let me offer a few thoughts. It’s also silent on the library’s role of preserving and rendering access to the corpus of information. Academic libraries seem to fade away, in fact. Carey also celebrates increased access to education, especially on the global stage.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In this chapter DeMillo focuses on one of the book’s major themes, setting access against elitism. Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), ” (3292) Only quality enhancement plans (QEPs) have hope for supporting actual improvements (3292ff). and get reading.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

This study, published in open access online journal First Monday is intriguingly titled: Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter. Today the service plays such a significant role in American culture that the Library of Congress has assembled a permanent archive of the site back to its first tweet, updated daily.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 11, 2016

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 11, “Ivory Towers.” ” Would you like to follow along? and get reading.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

A new reseller model bringing internet access to villages in rural Mexico. Organizations as diverse as Fidelity Investments and the New York Public Library are also adopting this tactic. Media interest in formalized online learning, or “peak MOOC,” occurred in about 2012, and with it the mandate that everyone must learn to code.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters” by Sarah T.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? Wikipedia defines the subscription model as a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. a semester.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

NMC Summer Conference presenters are thought leaders within the education industry at colleges and universities, schools, museums, libraries, organizations, and companies. The Call for Proposals will open May 1st , immediately following the Library 2.015 Spring Summit. More information here. Did we mention it was LIVE?

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