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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

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It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. There is clearly a disconnect here.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. ” Via Edsurge : “Education Technology Tools for Adult Learners Get Mixed Results From SRI Study.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. ” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” Apple , as always, helps us see how criticism-free technology journalism can be. ” So says the FCC.