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How to Boost Classroom Engagement With the Tech Tool That 'Always Works'

Edsurge

EdSurge: How has Vivi affected teacher mobility? Where they used to sit in the back corner and just kind of talk at their students, now they can sit with their students. Teachers and students are now completely interacting through the instruction. Has there been an impact on student engagement?

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Higher education is going through a massive transformation thanks to the adoption of new technologies like mobile learning , gamification and digital courseware. Many publishers have already started converting their physical textbooks to electronic formats which can be accessed on a desktop or mobile. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. But when he and the head of the UN Kofi Annan went to demo the device, its signature feature — a hand crank that would power it — fell off.

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