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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. High-Impact Practices in Online Education: Research and Best Practices ,” edited by Kathryn E. Jessica Valera, science teacher.

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8 Reasons to Create Interactive Textbooks for Engaging K-12 Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. These software tools also allow you to publish the content. Easy to Publish.

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Product knowledge training: Unleashing the beast in your salespeople

Brainscape

And yet, most product knowledge training is delivered linearly, presenting the information ONCE in a seminar, video, or by reading, with the employee never seeing it again. ” Based on their confidence rating, the app’s algorithm will repeat that card again and again, until the answers are deeply ingrained in their memory.

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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. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. But it doesn’t happen.

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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. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. But it doesn’t happen.

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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! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.