eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The company has launched Gale Community For Educators , a new Facebook community designed with K-12 educators in mind. About Cengage Group and Gale Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 29, 2022

As education goes online driven by the evolution in digital technologies and the COVID 19 pandemic, several companies are wooing the learners, academic institutions, and corporate houses with powerful tools to conduct online and blended learning programs. Let us take a look at how KITABOO enhances the user experience. .

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For instance, Stanford University conducted its first VR course, canned ENGAGE, in 2021. During the course, VR headsets were given to each student, and all of their classes took place in virtual reality. Many working professionals desire to learn about certain topics but do not have the time to finish a lengthy course.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 16, 2020

You are a school, college or university looking to publish online courses and assign virtual work to your students. Some solutions focus on text-based material and utilize lesson and page loading to charter students through the course. Harness the power of eBooks. You are an enterprise looking to provide training to your staff.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

Enrollment for the course went up by 70% within a year! . During this time, EdTech platforms, schools and universities, gaming companies, and other stakeholders in education and learning have invested in leveraging technology to bridge learning gaps. . Today, EdTech has gone mainstream, with the pandemic accelerating its growth.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Furthermore, the adoption of EdTech has presented an opportunity for companies to build products that cater to evolving needs of users. EdTech companies need to make smarter decisions in terms of user experience because if a product fails to cater to a vast majority of users, they will eventually turn to another product that does.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

The digital diffusion of education enabled the development of the collaborative economy, which refers to an economic system in which companies and several independent creators and producers aggregate and create value jointly in freely interconnected networks. “Co-creation, Here are the top 10 advantages of eBooks over printed books ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

Founded in 2014, the London-based company provides digital content from 2,000-plus publishers. The company has 33 full-time employees with hundreds of thousands of student users. The company has raised a total of $15 million in capital. The company has seen some interest in other parts of North America and Europe.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

link] A lot of times we think of Google slides as the presentation tool, which of course it is, and there’s nothing wrong with that, please don’t get me wrong. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. VICKI: Okay, what’s next?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Vicki: And of course, if Ernest Hemingway can do it, we can do it too, right? Once they have the basics of writing — say middle school or high school — is to take the class and write an eBook. Tip #4: Authoring eBooks. My students did eBooks this semester. They’re still writing, because it’s Twitter.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

On the opposite end of the inconvenience spectrum are companies who have honed their customer service through thousands of interactions to create enterprise level support. Some weeks ago, I had trouble figuring out how to open an account at a nearby company, so I went online and clicked the firm’s number I found on its homepage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

Richard Byrne the author of Free Technology for Teachers has some fantastic professional development courses including a course for history / social studies teachers. So this course is right up my alley, or this topic is right up my alley, of Using Technology in Social Studies. Now there’s an eBook option. Listen Now.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Which means course creators have to create a diverse learning program. And this is also the time when many students will opt for courses that will help them in their choice of career in the future, as companies look out for highly skilled candidates with specialized training in a particular field.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

Owl Eyes has hundreds of free ebooks — the Canterbury Tales, The Odyssey, and all of Shakespeare’s work. But Owl Eyes isn’t just an ebook reader. They’re going to fly drones through obstacle courses that they’ve coded. And of course my initial reaction is, “Well, why NOT?” It’s just with Spheros , with drones.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 19, 2020

Since our schools closed down last Friday companies have been very generous and forthcoming to provide FREE resources for our quarantined or grounded kiddos. My school district is really lucky because we've partnered with MackinVia and our kiddos have the ability to download FREE eBooks. 11 hours) FREE digital eBooks from MackinVia.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It now offers more than 13,000 high-quality, leveled eBooks to help schools boost their balanced literacy program for students in grades K–12 to improve reading skills. Big Universe provides schools with an affordable, comprehensive literacy solution featuring a readymade library of thousands of leveled eBooks from well-known publishers.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

We’ve heard from educators how overwhelming it can be to wade through the dozens of emails and articles with hundreds of “great apps for distance learning” from people and companies that possibly have their interests -- and not yours -- in mind. Each tool has scored well on our research-based ratings rubric. Platforms: Web.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

They get a short (8-15 page) eBook in PDF form called an eGuide, along with a 20-30 minute audio version of that content so they can listen rather than read if they prefer. I feel like this group is more valuable than a required education course in college. How does this program work? I had fall break last week. Sign up now.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 30, 2012

I was interested in using digital textbooks instead of the typical self-contained course such as those produced by Florida Virtual School, K12/Aventa, etc. A few publishing companies offered such books, but this is what I discovered: Few of these digital texts were truly "interactive." They ranged from PDF documents to websites.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Tools to build eBooks to demonstrate understanding. I, of course, start off again by modeling — what does a SketchNote — or what could a SketchNote — look like? The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

From May through July, students across the state have free access to two FuelEd online learning tools, Stride™, an award-winning digital learning solution that rewards student progress with games, and Big Universe®, an online reading literacy platform featuring thousands of eBooks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Of course if you’re sitting on a round chair or a round surface your brain is continually interacting with the gravitational pull of the earth’s surface and your body’s ability to respond to those movements. I have information for you on our website, and I have an eBook for your listeners as well that they can access at our website, [link].

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 30, 2012

I was interested in using digital textbooks instead of the typical self-contained course such as those produced by Florida Virtual School, K12/Aventa, etc. A few publishing companies offered such books, but this is what I discovered: Few of these digital texts were truly "interactive." They ranged from PDF documents to websites.

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techlearning

APRIL 23, 2018

Big Universe provides schools with an affordable, comprehensive literacy solution featuring a ready-made library of more than 13,000 high-quality leveled eBooks from well-known publishers. With Big Universe, WCPSS is leveraging eBooks in several different ways across the district.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2022

You want to do this cost-effectively without too much fuss over content development, and deliver the course from your existing Learning Management System in an efficient, easy manner. You’d like to buy some of your courses from off-the-shelf content providers, but you may like to create custom courses in-house for certain topics.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2020

Daphne Williams is a former teacher who became a consultant working for a large educational company and currently works full time as an Instructional Designer. During her speaking engagements for the company at educational conferences, teachers often asked her how she got out of teaching. It’s a fantastic job.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 29, 2024

Its open-source design and user-friendly interface have earned it praise for transforming how online courses are delivered and managed. The following are some of Moodle’s top features that contribute to engaging learning experiences: Flexible Course Creation: Moodle makes it easy for instructors to create and organize courses smoothly.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We've had 320 sessions and 25 special interviews over the course of two months. Today is the final day of The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. The collaboration allowed the bookstore access to the library’s online catalog to see which materials in faculty’s course packs were readily available in library journals.

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Nik Peachey

JANUARY 15, 2016

The activity also adds an element of competition which some students find motivating and of course it saves you a lot of time creating questions yourself. This involves them researching the source and thinking about the relationship between the company that created the graphic and the information in it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

That was the business community, and particularly those companies with a more entrepreneurial focus.”. That was the business community, and particularly those companies with a more entrepreneurial focus. This book is available wherever books and ebooks are sold. Liberal arts majors suffered the opposite problem.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

“Fiscal 2016 marks an important milestone for Cengage Learning as we transition from a traditional print publisher to a digital education company,” said Michael Hansen, Chief Executive Officer at Cengage Learning. MindTap now covers more than 550 courses, or approximately 60 percent of Cengage Learning’s product portfolio.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

SESSION PRESENTERS: Cindy Altick Aden ( @cindycpaa ) Washington State Library/Office of Secretary of State SESSION: Libraries and ebooks; challenges and opportunities What is the ebook landscape for libraries? Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

SESSION PRESENTERS: Cindy Altick Aden ( @cindycpaa ) Washington State Library/Office of Secretary of State SESSION: Libraries and ebooks; challenges and opportunities What is the ebook landscape for libraries? Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

SESSION PRESENTERS: Cindy Altick Aden ( @cindycpaa ) Washington State Library/Office of Secretary of State SESSION: Libraries and ebooks; challenges and opportunities What is the ebook landscape for libraries? Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

Kasey Bell’s Google Certification courses are open for enrollment from May 28 until June 10, 2018. One of the ways that I think is one of my favorites is creating an eBook inside Google Slides. Google Slide Tip #2: Create an eBook. You know, eBooks are just such a powerful way for kids to share. Listen Now. and podcasts.

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