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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier). Ida peer reviews technology-related book proposals for Elsevier. Ida has published numerous articles on emerging technologies.

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.” Carl Straumsheim writes that “One of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s most popular massive open online courses is adding a feature not seen in any of its other humanities MOOCs: instructors grading essays.” ” Of course, you have to pay $300 for this “features.”

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Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” ” Testing, Testing… The Chronicle of Higher Education reads “New Venture Will Offer Free Courses That Students Can Take for College Credit.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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“‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks The New Statesman.

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Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. .”

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” His son-in-law is Jared Kushner , of course. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “What if Your Favorite Teacher was a Robot?” Via Techcrunch : “ Ibuki is the 10-year-old robot child that will haunt your dreams.” Elsevier has acquired Aries Systems. ” asks Larry Cuban.

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” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge.