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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

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After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. Eventually, I was able to find all but three of my 11 textbooks for my master’s degree in educational technology freely available on the library website, not to mention plenty of other materials (e.g., According to. University’s Role.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

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1) You’re currently professor of educational technology at the British Open University. My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). large scale dropouts, superficial learning)?

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

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The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Often in online courses students disappear and drop,” says Barbara Illowsky, dean of basic skills and online educational resources (OER) and a professor of mathematics and statistics at De Anza College in Cupertino, California.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the press release : “Only thirteen percent of educators give their school/university an ‘A’ when asked to rank their available technology’s ability to improve the learning experience for students, according to a new study from public relations and digital marketing agency, Walker Sands Communications.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” asks Campus Technology. Via The New York Times : “Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology and Ethics of A.I. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. (Oh What’s next?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Apple , as always, helps us see how criticism-free technology journalism can be. Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” Microsoft is doing a desktop PC thing.