Books Instructional Materials Libraries Report 
Edsurge
MARCH 8, 2021
Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Teachers cite the challenges of remote instruction as a top reason for leaving their jobs during the pandemic. The full surveys are posted along with the report.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 7, 2017
Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Many are also joining to support passage of the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act. HathiTrust case , “…[A]cademic participation by print-disabled students has been revolutionized by the [digital books]”.
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NeverEndingSearch
JULY 5, 2017
When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Previously , I wrote about the tension surrounding book choice in schools from four main parties: parents, teachers, students, and admin. Guiding students in book choices is not an administrator’s role, as I understand it; we trust the mentors directly speaking into students’ lives for that. Maybe you’re angry about book bans.
eSchool News
JANUARY 1, 2024
Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic. Do you need infrastructure updates?
eSchool News
JANUARY 5, 2024
Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic. Do you need infrastructure updates?
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 13, 2017
Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Pearson agreed.
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