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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Among these platforms are :EdX, Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, Class Central, OpenYale Courses, Open MIT Courseware, MasterClass, among others. Some of these platforms include: Eric, SpringerOpen, Elsevier, SAGE Open, JSTOR, ScienceOpen, Digital Library of the Commons, Directory of Open Access Journals, and many more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare. Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” ACT has invested $10.5

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” Udemy has raised another $60 million , this time from the South African media group Naspers (which just last month invested $15 million in the homework help site Brainly). Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).