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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. I tend to focus on aspects of OER depending on the audience. Absolutely. It's a continuing spectrum. Absolutely.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project’s end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. Read the article or watch the webinar. Read the article or watch the webinar (future).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” The Business of Job Training. National) Education Politics.

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March 13th Library 2.0 Mini-Conference "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryid on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. KEYNOTE PANEL: (organized and moderated by John Shank and Steven Bell) Dana Bryant Lead Instructional Technologist for Academic Technology Services, Woodruff Library, at Emory University Dana Bryant, Ph.D.,

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake 70+ million users’ account details.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The Business of Job Training. ” Via Chalkbeat : “A growing Jeffco program trains future early childhood workers while they’re still in high school.” National) Education Politics. It’s complicated.”