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As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges

Edsurge

It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 What is the philosophy behind joining a library of video courses with a professional-networking site? If you live in New York, you really don’t care what’s trending in Silicon Valley. billion dollars.

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Marketplace trend update: 5 ed-tech developments

eSchool News

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Stacks is available through EBSCO Information Services , empowering libraries to engage their patrons anytime, anywhere.

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How Schools Can Respond To The Age Of Information

TeachThought - Learn better.

Libraries for centuries have acted as points of media aggregation that were intellectual and cultural and functioned as lodestones of information. The internet has changed things again, offering virtual libraries and fingertip-access to collective human information lodes. But the macro trends at work here are indeed interesting.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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5 Ideas for Friday: Ideas for Teachers In and Out of School to Try Today

The CoolCatTeacher

Lots of resources are out there — at your local library, museum, art council or an online or face to face conference. (I 2 – Wander Through a Library (or Amazon free titles). Some of the greatest books I’ve come to love, I found on a random summertime stroll through the library. Meri Walker is Iphone Art Girl.

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Library in Your Pocket

The Daring Librarian

The Library in Your Pocket: Mobile Trends for Libraries View more presentations from Meredith Farkas. Information Wants To Be Free Website The above slideshare preso is from a talk for Western New York Library Resources Council’s "Gadgets and Gear: A Tech Gathering" - May 7, 2010 And it BLEW me AWAY! Mobile Libraries!

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5 Ideas for Friday: Ideas for Teachers In and Out of School to Try Today

The CoolCatTeacher

Lots of resources are out there — at your local library, museum, art council or an online or face to face conference. (I 2 – Wander Through a Library (or Amazon free titles). Some of the greatest books I’ve come to love, I found on a random summertime stroll through the library. Meri Walker is Iphone Art Girl.

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