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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

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. Let’s take maps, for example.

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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. The network runs the Open Textbook Library , a digital resource that contains links to nearly 700 openly licensed textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one.

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Netflix Epic Fail: Library Lessons Learned

The Daring Librarian

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! as in the InterNET as in Email- how do you only have a ph# to contact support?

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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

Current Events on the Gamifi-ed Wiki. These books are listed in alphabetical order and are part of my personal library at home. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it. Cast Your Vote – A Game that helps students understand debates and elections.

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What Librarians Make -- Joyce Valenza Says It All

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

and in response to articles by Dr. Marc Bernstein, Superintendent of the Valley Stream (NY) Central High School District that question the relevance of libraries, Librarian Joyce Valenza says it all about what it means to be a librarian. The problem with libraries is that they are anachronisms, sacred cows. Bravisima, Joyce!