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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Some good platforms that offer free ebooks and audiobooks include: Internet Archive, LibriVox, Open Library, Open Culture, Bookbub, and many more. Among these platforms are :EdX, Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, Class Central, OpenYale Courses, Open MIT Courseware, MasterClass, among others.

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Wow Them with the Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21st!

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Lessons and Resources. National Geographic has several resources, including a video, in their article, How to See the Best Total Solar Eclipse in a Century. The Eclipse Megamovie Project has a cool simulator of the eclipse and other learning resources. Take the free Coursera online course about the 2017 Solar Eclipse.

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human. That’s a tall order.

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

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Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. Although many professors still favor hard copies, online libraries have also made their way into the course plan in some places across the globe. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

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If anything, Course Hero has doubled down on its model by replicating its resource-sharing platform for instructors and faculty members. Having these kinds of resources at hand can be very helpful,” she says of the Course Hero platform, where she has a profile. Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Amazon Inspire Goes Live (But Without Controversial Share Feature) Nearly a year after Amazon launched its Inspire project, which was touted as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other open education resources, the site still remained in limited, invitation-only beta. Well, at least partially open.

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How Voice-Enabled Technology is Changing the Contours of Higher Education

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Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students and provide access to information and learning resources in a more convenient way. If so, what does that look like? Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students.