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Thursday Webinar - "Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques" with Dr. Sue Alman

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

However, it is the responsibility of organizational leaders to develop the communication strategies and messages that others will deliver to the constituencies. As an online educator she developed and offered a MOOC for the SJSU iSchool, and she coordinated two Library 2.0

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How Universities Can Grow a Culture of Academic Innovation

Edsurge

The DIG team identified and prioritized additional needs and quickly added members with expertise in user experience design, behavioral science, data science, software development and innovation advocacy. We continue to grow our capabilities in these areas and more as we foster a culture of learning in innovation at U-M.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal?

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. But what does bother me a bit is the suggestion that OERs have not been primarily (and very intentionally) marketed as a cost saving strategy for years now.

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50 Free Online Courses For Educators: Spring 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

Teaching Library Research Strategies. LA101x: Library Advocacy Unshushed. Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom. eLearning moocs pd Professional development' Go To Class | Next Session : 26th Jan, 2015. . Minecraft for Educators. University of Hull via Canvas.net. via Canvas.net.

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If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Keeping the conversation laser-focused on cost is the core of their defensive strategy with regard to OER. When our presentations and our writing and our speaking and our advocacy focus primarily on ways that OER alleviate the cost problem, we’re actually doing exactly what publishers want. Can you see it?

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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