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As Campuses Move to Embrace OER, College Libraries Become Key Players

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Increasingly, the answer is the campus library. Several college libraries have created positions like Reed’s in recent years, or assigned those duties as part of existing jobs. Another way college libraries are helping their campuses embrace open resources is by banding together to share information about OER.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Doug Levin For all of the hype around ICOs, there’s still plenty of skepticism—and examples of fraud.

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Technology Holds Great Promise for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum

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For families of individuals with autism, the online training website lynda.com may be helpful for learning how to use tablets and other devices. For example, purple lights to symbolize when it’s time for bed. VizZle provides a library of more than 14,000 lessons and the tools and media to customize them or create your own from scratch.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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On building learning playlists

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Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. Search them for inspiring examples as well. TES Lessons Library. Curation (School Library Monthly). I have a YouTube playlist of workouts I use when I travel. Pearltrees. Collections by Destiny.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. LinkedIn Learning : Formerly Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning is a subscription-based site for courses in media production and beyond.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Infodocket : “ University of Delaware Library Joins Open Textbook Network.” “The ‘poor man’s MBA’ can boost salaries by 20%,” says CNN in a puff piece about LinkedIn , Lynda.com , and project management certificates. .” ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example.

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