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Elsevier Faces Tough Questions About Its Business Model During Library and Publishing Conference

Edsurge

And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. Higher-ed futurist Bryan Alexander emceed with a combination of humor and cage-rattling questions, such as “Is higher education a commodity?” (The There is no way to lock in curiosity,” he said. “We

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

I am very familiar with this feeling and I hope the collection of resources I assembled in this post will help alleviate it, even a tiny bit. Subjects covered include history, physics, psychology, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, geography, education, business, law, environment, energy, and many more.

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The Internet has made it super easy to self-educate. To make the best of your online surfing you need to master the skill of curation, that is, be able to bookmark important resources and digital content and organize it in ways that make it easy for you to access it later on.

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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

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Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature. This is certainly a huge factor when it comes to popularity.

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Announcing the Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to participate in this event. She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier).

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Register for the Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - Plus, Some Accepted Sessions Are Online!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to participate in this event. She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier).

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Futuring open education at the University of Mary Washington OER Summit

Bryan Alexander

Today I traveled to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to participate in the University of Mary Washington ‘s Open Education Resources Summit , organized by the excellent Steven Greenlaw. I’m also presenting, on the future of open education. Hippy bike on campus, or the Jim Groom legacy lives!

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