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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. These are probably the best you can ever find online. This is a work in progress.

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

If they didn’t like that, they definitely don’t like what they’re getting this semester. Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses. Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. Entangled Solutions’ consultants Deborah Seymour and Michael B.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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