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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. AASA members range from chief executive officers, superintendents and senior level school administrators to cabinet members, professors and aspiring school system leaders.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The window on the right looks like a typical computer desktop running the Windows operating system. A screen capture of the Acuitus digital tutor interface.

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Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform instructional design

IT Bill

This approach to online learning has served to help new-to-online learners navigate the online course, learn to use the most common learning management system (LMS) tools, and interact with their classmates in ways that have modeled the traditional classroom.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. In the late 90’s, learning management systems came along and universities said great, now academics don’t need to know any of that technical stuff, they can just use the web interface in the LMS. I was wrong.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. In the late 90’s, learning management systems came along and universities said great, now academics don’t need to know any of that technical stuff, they can just use the web interface in the LMS. I was wrong.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!

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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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