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New Webinar: "Managing Stress in the Library: Strategies for Library Workers" with Loida Garcia-Febo

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Managing Stress in the Library: Strategies for Library Workers A Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0 Mental Health and Wellness Series OVERVIEW Library workers often face a variety of stressors such as tight deadlines, high workloads, and other challenges related to providing access to information and services.

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New Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo: "Preventing Burnout and Fatigue"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Preventing Burnout and Fatigue: A Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0 Mental Health and Wellness Series OVERVIEW : “Burnout is the biggest problem at our library” is a phrase we increasingly hear from library workers at all types of libraries. This 60-minute training is presented by Library 2.0

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Emotional Intelligence for Librarians: A Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Emotional Intelligence: A Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0 This can help us to strengthen communications, decision-making, and relationships between library workers, team members, and other people in general. This 60-minute training is presented by Library 2.0 and hosted by Loida Garcia-Febo.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Students would be required to pay.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

To try to answer this question, I did a quick count of the titles listed in the Open Textbook Library , which is the biggest referatory of “whole course OER” that I’m aware of. Developers who are known to be doing this work on their own, with no financial contribution happening from any company” represented only 8.2%

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. Even with that, financial documents show, the company has yet to turn a profit , thanks to the high cost of recruiting new students. It definitely needs more attention,” Stevens said.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. ” At this stage, any company that compares themselves to Uber is out of their mind. ” $100,000.