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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

By Rebecca Koenig In Pursuit of Personalized Learning Baraniuk played electric guitar in high school rock bands while growing up in Winnipeg, Canada—the same city, he notes, that spawned The Guess Who. That could undercut the courseware that for-profit companies sell for five or 10 times as much. Now, it’s coming for courseware.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms. Gooru’s resources are contributed by credible online sources and educators from over 60 public school districts.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. So education related companies are going to have to be innovative in the apps they create for these devices. Need ideas?

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Moodle: The Unsung Hero of LMS Options

Ask a Tech Teacher

Moodle got its start years ago as a method to organize blended learning and online classes. Now, it provides over 90 million educators, administrators, and learners in over 200 countries with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. How to get help with Moodle.

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This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[link] ANYWHERE, ANYTIME LEARNING WITH VIDEO (ELLUMINATE LIVE EVENTS) Tue 26 Oct 01:00PM New York / Tue 26 Oct 05:00PM GMT / Wed 26 Oct 03:00AM Sydney Sebastian Grady. Sebastian Grady, COO of Altus Learning, will share stories from companies that are using video to capture critical knowledge throughout their global organizations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. “Open.”