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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. The web is teeming with social and professional platforms where you can network with other professionals in your field most important of these platforms are Twitter, LinkedIn, and Researchgate.

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

Edsurge

A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year How do you win Faculty Member of the Year 13 times in a row? Well, at least partially open.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories. Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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Revolution in Higher Education: A Social Contract

Bryan Alexander

and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there). Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ). Would you like to join us at the end, or start reading now and work through our discussion?

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 1

Bryan Alexander

We see Coursera when it was just “DKandme” This chapter takes us through the critical work of selected people, including Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Charles Vest, Anant Agarwal, and John Hennessy. Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ).

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others! See you online!

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