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Innovation In E-learning In The Last 10 Years

EdTech4Beginners

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives. Open Education Resources (OER).

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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside are currently looking into this, and developing a polymeric material that could enable smartphone screens to repair themselves. But companies might not be attuned enough to how the user experience shifts from one device to another.

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The Pin that Popped the Textbook Bubble: Open (Notes for my 2015 #sxswedu talk)

Iterating Toward Openness

The major publishers are publicly traded companies with growth and earnings expectations they have to meet. However, should it turn out that some of this company’s products are effective (or more effective than their competitors’ offerings), what do you suppose will happen to pricing? And that’s terrific.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh

The CoolCatTeacher

This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. What makes Expii unique?

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Companies use proprietary digital platforms to deliver digital courseware according to the needs of the students and their learning pace, allowing for the personalization of education and increased interactivity. The companies have created workflows and set up processes that help them do more in less time with the help of technology.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.” It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. The new company will be called Touch Press (which was the name of another company that StoryToys acquired last year).