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12+ Missions Covering Various K12 Content for Meaningful Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Participants in my current free online course, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), designed learning missions this past week to inspire their learners. Mission: Create an ebook for a classmate. Students are presented with a choice of digital missions with real world impact instead of typical homework or tasks.

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DisruptEd

Reading By Example

While eBooks and online portfolios have gained a strong foothold in schools, MOOCs and BYOD continue to have their ups and downs in the K-12 environment. Matt Renwick : Is education ripe for disruption? It depends on which areas and who you ask. Why do some innovations make an impact on student learning and others do not?

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Ebooks These are gone almost nowhere in education for years, despite the general ebook boom. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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10Q: Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Learning with 'e's

Educators who join receive a free ebook and have access to several videos and podcasts to help them achieve their goals. It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). The 30 Goals Challenge - Over 7000 educators worldwide have participated in accomplishing goals to transform their classrooms and impact their students.

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.014 Online Events This Week

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

4:00pm Do you have what it takes to manage an eBook library?

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

This change is the result of overpriced textbooks which drove students towards less expensive sources like eBooks, used textbooks, rental books etc. 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?

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

If we’re re-envisioning libraries for a modern society, for example, should we start with the library as it exists and iterate it forward, adding computers and eBook checkout and so on and maybe put a 3D printer at the entrance when you first walk in to give the glow of technology? I can see that happening with school. Dosomething.org.