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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

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Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. One partner, Pearson, took a pre-tax loss of approximately $3.2

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Culture, as defined by Geneva Gay (2018) in her book Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice , is “a dynamic system of social values, cognitive codes, behavioral standards, worldviews, and beliefs used to give order and meaning to our own lives as well as the lives of others” (p. Pearson, P.

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Most Popular of 2015, No. ten: Are digital textbooks worth it?

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Writer Mary Axelson’s reporting was engrossing, and her case studies struck a chord with readers: While the original story ran across four pages, an unusually-above average number of you read it all the way to the end. The next year, they flipped that model by buying online social studies books with some hardcopy backups.

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Three Years In, Minerva’s Founder On For-Profits, Selectivity, and His Critics

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Historically, if you go back to 1960 and before, the side that was pro-curriculum said, "We're going to pick the books you need to study. They get their textbooks from Pearson, from Macmillan. They get their Harvard Business case studies from the for-profit arm of Harvard University. We're going to structure it.

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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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Reading the book “Accidental Empires,” my favorite tech history, helped me imagine that an academic system was more than just another enterprise application; it was an operating system or platform for instruction. Once upon a time Pearson operated under different brands that made the totality of what Pearson did less obvious.

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

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And if you’re keen on exploring further, I have another post filled with carefully selected classroom management books. These books provide deeper dives into various strategies, philosophies, and real-world applications, reinforcing the research-based approaches I’m sharing here. link] Garrett, T. link] Gordon, D.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

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Please consider becoming part of this elite team by signing up at [link] and using the booking calendar to schedule volunteer time. Associate Professor of Biology A Case Study in Science and Engineering Job Shadowing in High School - Ann Gaudino, Ed.D. Huge thanks! Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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