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Why Continuing Education Programs Are Poised to Become Hubs of Innovation

Edsurge

In particular, continuing education programs are less regulated, more responsive to industry and consumer needs, have less restrictive budget policies and procurement systems, operate under lower political pressure, and are often infused with the “startup mentality” that is critical for responding to and pioneering disruptive innovations.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Here is November''s Diigo library.

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50 Free Online Courses For Educators: Spring 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

1368.3x: Saving Schools: History, Politics, and Policy in U.S. Teaching Library Research Strategies. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice. LA101x: Library Advocacy Unshushed. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

Think of ways this could be used in programs both in and outside of your own schools like the YMCA, tutoring programs, community sports, and libraries. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. See: Copyright Policy.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. The company has raised some $77.5

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

Same with a school or curriculum or assessment. While short on experts, rules, and policies, a home has agility and “scale” that a school necessarily lacks. Or should be think of why libraries came to be in the first place–their function–and rethink them in light of modern technology? Dosomething.org.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please join us for the third annual global conversation about the future of libraries: October 18-19, 2013, [link]. join the Library 2.0 The conference is once again being held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.