So you want to use e-textbooks in the 2011-2012 school year? Although there are some quality players in the market, no one platform is quite ready for prime time. What options are available? What are their feature sets?
Community colleges that compete for federal money to serve students
online will be obliged to make those materials—videos, text, assessments, curricula, diagnostic tools, and more—available to everyone in the world, free, under a Creative Commons license.
2-billion Labor-Education project could transport the open-resource movement to a new level of prominence.
departments also plan to organize the materials so tha
educators can search and shape them into rational sequences of learning.
Proposals for the first $500-million of the $2-billion arrived at the Labor Department only a few weeks ago, so the exact nature of the programs remains to be seen.
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structured way to review someone's paper Find instances of, eg, thesis staement in paper and paste it into paragraph. Then comment on its adequacy. Great exercise but doesn't look like in-class material.