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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

“I found the whole process was a little more like a production line and not an authorship,” says Janssen, who has also worked on textbook materials for several commercial publishing companies. That could undercut the courseware that for-profit companies sell for five or 10 times as much. That would happen if W.W.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also check out the historical photos of Texas, Mexico, and Teddy Roosevelt from Southern Methodist University and the World War II advertisements and posters from the Library Company of Philadelphia. I could incorporate Stanford University’s amazing library of historical critical thinking assessments at Beyond the Bubble.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

We talked for instance about how technology would streamline assessment, and how the curriculum might be impacted by new technologies. Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Web 2.0 Tools

MSEDTechie

ToonDoo ToonDoo: Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss KERPOOF Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. Embed the voki on class blogs, wikis, websites, and more. Perfect for self-assessment purposes for foreign language classrooms. Forum WIKI What is wiki? ?

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Week of March 28, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

learncentral.org/event/143030/ APPLES AND ORANGES: EMPLOYEE SKILLS ASSESSMENT DRIVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE (Elluminate) Wed 30 Mar 01:00PM New York / Wed 30 Mar 05:00PM GMT / Thu 31 Mar 05:00AM Sydney Ajay Pangarkar. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed ''Orange Inc.''