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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

Edsurge

And in some cases that has caused new kinds of challenges, since those fees are often paid by college libraries, and not every scholar in every discipline has equal access to support. He says, yeah, no, of course nobody reads the journals, but they're still there. The number of open access journals has grown over the years.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. Students are enrolling in my course to get a technical degree but they can’t afford the textbook because it’s $300. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Netflix Epic Fail: Library Lessons Learned

The Daring Librarian

of course now i go and Google that " netflix no email contact ".and gwynethjones i mean seriously @ netflixhelps your company name is NETflix. How this relates to School Libraries: When people want to find something they want to find it and fast! Have your library collection catalog available online! then i google it.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Current Events on the Gamifi-ed Wiki. These books are listed in alphabetical order and are part of my personal library at home. Explore Like a Pirate: Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners with Gamification and Game-Based Course Design. Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation run by Dr. Jeff Stanzler at the University of Michigan.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

162) characterizes L2g as 'an ongoing project where presentations are organized weekly by volunteers collaborating on a wiki. URL/LINK TO JOIN: [link] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Women Of Wiki (WOW) [link] Hello Little World Skypers [link] are default collaborators. Stevens (2014, p.162) DIRECTIONS: Pre-register on Skype. HOST SCHOOL: C.N.M