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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. Pirates are the open access movement's best friend, but of course we can't say that in polite company.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d also check out the historical photos of Texas, Mexico, and Teddy Roosevelt from Southern Methodist University and the World War II advertisements and posters from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. You could maybe change the world, or at least the world of education.”

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Flip your classroom through reverse instruction

The Electric Educator

The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford Take, for example, the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It is one of the world''s literary repositories and one of the largest libraries in the world. Organization is key for such a large library. Others were simply Google Docs presentations shared on my classroom wiki.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

As shown below, well-designed serious games can teach, educate, and inspire. Therefore, we educators need to educate ourselves on game based learning. Does Gamification in Education Really Improve Learning? Gamification in Education – a piece I wrote for Edutopia on this topic. By Jennifer Roland.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. A current listing of events you can join is below.