Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS
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Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System - Wired Campus... - 10 views
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It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle.
Free Audio: Download the Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis | Open Culture - 3 views
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"Free Audio: Download the Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis"
iPads and the Embarrassment Factor - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 4 views
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"News that all the graduate students in my Future of Media seminar would receive iPads for the semester generated a flurry of excitement. Then something odd happened: The students, all in their mid- to late 20s, became self-conscious about carrying iPads. They refused to use them in public"
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views
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notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
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Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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Episode 83: Teaching Students to Be Smartphone-Literate - Tech Therapy - The Chronicle ... - 0 views
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In this month’s episode of Tech Therapy, The Chronicle’s monthly technology podcast, Ronald A. Yaros, an assistant professor specializing in mobile journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, describes an iPhone app he developed for his courses. He also talks about his vision for helping students prepare for a business world in which smartphones will very likely be the norm.
Innovate My School - 'History Mysteries': How not knowing leads to great knowing! - 2 views
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"One thing that always interested me about History was the growing realisation that even the supposedly simplest and most straightforward facts are quite often shrouded in a mystifying narrative; a trail of sources that leaves the true story open to a range of opposing interpretations and outcomes. Whilst we may think we have answered all the questions and arrived at the correct conclusions about the sequences of events, a differing theory or discovery of a contradictory source can suddenly debunk the accepted. That is what makes learning History so fascinating; the mysteries. The definite mysteries that we may never solve or we can see evolving into an answer as decades move forward, or the certain chronicle that suddenly finds itself turning into a cryptic puzzle as later evidence emerges. Within us all is a person who wants to know the answers when challenged by the unknown, and to embrace the exhilaration of cracking a Sherlockian case. Instead of a just a 'Whodunnit?', exploring history mysteries involves a wider spectrum of narratives and therefore can offer a far more rich tapestry of skills including analysis, questioning and the evaluation of places, events and persons. Follow me down the rabbit's hole into the wonderland of history mysteries."
'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 1 views
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"'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online"
Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 5 views
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Education is not the transmission of information or ideas. Education is the training needed to make use of information and ideas. As information breaks loose from bookstores and libraries and floods onto computers and mobile devices, that training becomes more important, not less.
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Just as coaching requires individual attention, education, at its core, requires one mind engaging with another, in real time: listening, understanding, correcting, modeling, suggesting, prodding, denying, affirming, and critiquing thoughts and their expression.
What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views
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"I had high hopes when I handed out iPads to students in my graduate seminar this semester. I wanted to explore the possibilities of tablet computing and see firsthand how tablets might be used in higher education. I also wanted students to see for themselves where the iPad might fit into their lives and their careers - and into the future of media and communication."
Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher"
