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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. 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).

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Inspire to learn

Learning with 'e's

Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and personal response technologies; students arrive equipped with social media and mobile devices; technology supported distance education has been long established; universities are experimenting with flipped classrooms, gaming and MOOCs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” Sandbox has acquired Constructive Media. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. ” The latest research from Pew : “ Teens’ Social Media Habits and Experiences.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” classrooms: An army of robots to help autistic students learn social skills.” Technology, Education, and the Media.” Trillion in 2018.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Inside Higher Ed profiles homework help company Course Hero. ” From the press release : “ Jisc Collections and Elsevier Sign Landmark UK Agreement, Securing Access to Research Publications and Initiating Open Science Collaboration.” Upgrades and Downgrades. ” Bravo, blended learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” More on the course and the university’s decision via Inside Higher Ed. Heckuva job.