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Elsevier Faces Tough Questions About Its Business Model During Library and Publishing Conference

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And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. The daylong program kicked off with a riveting one-on-one conversation between Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA’s president, and Youngsuk “YS” Chi, the chairman of Elsevier. But we are profitable.”

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The sheer volume of data and information you come across online is overwhelming to say the least. To make the best of your online surfing you need to master the skill of curation, that is, be able to bookmark important resources and digital content and organize it in ways that make it easy for you to access it later on.

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10 Characteristics of 21st Century Learners

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Collaborative learners are adept at communicating, sharing ideas, and pooling resources to achieve common goals. In my experience, digitally proficient students are better equipped to access a vast range of learning resources and collaborate on a global scale. 6, eds Burke C.

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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

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And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). Who Owns Student Data? Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

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Once they have the ample resource materials to back their arguments, students then need to “bag it and tag it” in preparation for the citations and references. You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. Between research and referencing, referencing is worse.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Department of Education is looking for nonprofit organizations to help support its #GoOpen campaign to nurture state and district take-up of ‘open’ educational resources ,” says EdWeek’s Market Brief. ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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. “Before You Hit ‘ Submit ,’ This Company Has Already Logged Your Personal Data.”