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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

So far, more than 9 million students have used OpenStax books, the nonprofit reports, calculating their cumulative savings to students at $800 million. Based on the number of faculty-reported adoptions, OpenStax estimates its physics textbook is now No. 1 in the market. That would happen if W.W. It costs $10 per student.

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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. Material from a press release was used in this report. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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Web 2.0 Tools

MSEDTechie

They have to write a report, and create a presentation. This required students to type a report in a word processing document, then use poster board to cut out, and paste, draw, sketch, etc. Embed the voki on class blogs, wikis, websites, and more. Forum WIKI What is wiki? ? What is good about a wiki?

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Exploiting a Video Viral

Nik Peachey

It then converts this story into a small video report. Does it have an influence on their impressions of the company / product? My Fame Star is a great example of this and one that we can use to create lesson materials. What it does, is enable you to upload a photograph and then create a story around it.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015. Current Events on the Gamifi-ed Wiki. Sept 2015). Economics & Financial Literacy. Economics Games for Change.

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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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me” by NPR’s longtime education reporter, Claudio Sanchez. And there’s data about pay in the research and reports section below. Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. “Open.”