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Thomas Galvez

Flexr Flexbook - 0 views

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  • Thomas Galvez on 05 Apr 09
     
    Create a textbook with customized content.
Kathleen N

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  • Kathleen N on 22 Jul 09
     
    Really like this model for publishing textbooks. Judging from "who is reading right now", seems college profs do too...
Dimitris Tzouris

Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 10 views

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  • So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
  • Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
  • the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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  • only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
  • The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
  • If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
  • Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
  • He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said. Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
Cara Whitehead

List Sharing - SpellingCity.com - 0 views

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  • Cara Whitehead on 31 Jul 11
     
    Word lists from textbook series
Martin Burrett

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  • Martin Burrett on 13 Sep 11
     
    A superb site with free downloadable pdf textbooks for adults on subjects such as IT and Programming, travel guides and science. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Mendi Benigni

Mobile Teaching Versus Mobile Learning (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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      Mendi Benigni on 01 Apr 11
       
      It seems like it's more about multimedia stimulating the brain in different areas rather than the fact that it's mobile or portable.
  • need to move beyond the heavy reliance on text.
  • lot of digital books floating around, being hailed as amazing advancements in teaching and learning. Although I know the majority of materials currently available to students on their portable multimedia consumption devices are still primarily text-based, maybe including a static image or two (see Figure 3, a color, static digital page with a Venn diagram that is no different from the same page in the printed book5),
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  • it's not enough for CourseSmart to make PDF-like copies of textbooks available for students to purchase; instead, we need the type of interactivity we're starting to see from the textbooks available in Inkling.
  • transformative
  • we need to think more systematically about how to design education to facilitate learning
  • We need to provide materials or applications that allow students to practice identifying parts of the body on their mobile multimedia devices before taking the high-stakes midterm or final exam.
  • At minimum we could be asking our students to capture raw material from the real world and engage with it based on the concepts we are teaching them.
  • It's one thing to learn about different architectural styles in a Western Civ or Construction textbook or lecture; it's another to apply what you've learned by going out into the community and taking pictures of buildings and then identifying the architectural influences
  • In both cases the activity of capturing "raw" digital material can lead to further learning or assessment activities where students might develop multimedia projects.
  • a Citrix server with the ability for students to check out laptops and iPads with Citrix running on them gives faculty outside of the art and business departments the ability to require students to manipulate images. For example, Scottsdale Community College in Arizona has a Citrix environment that allows students to access applications like Photoshop on an iPad (Figure 6).
  • engaging
  • away from how instructors teach to how students learn. Research now shows that successful learning needs to be act
  • active
  • connect to the students' prior knowledge
  • simulate real-world experiences
  • To achieve the promise of mobile learning, we have to stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices and get students using them as production devices.
  • To achieve the promise of mobile learning, we have to stop thinking about these powerful mobile mu
  • mobile devices not only makes the content more accessible, it also helps students engage the content using multiple senses
Paul Beaufait

The Teacher's Guide To Open Educational Resources | Edudemic - 31 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 04 Aug 15
     
    Comforto (2015) explained how to identify open educational resources (OERs), listed a handful of places to start looking for them, and provided micro reviews of repositories for literature, math and science OERs, as well as videos, courses and textbooks. She included suggestions for appropriate use and re-use of OERs, and invited comments pointing out similar repositories or resources. Comforto, Nicole. (2015, July 30). The Teacher's Guide To Open Educational Resources [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/guide-open-educational-resources/
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Judy Robison

The Learning Mag - 37 views

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  • Judy Robison on 04 Jan 12
     
    "The Learning Mag is a mobile learning textbook that you create for your students. You can organize your course materials into sections with individual mobile links and a slick JQuery Mobile interface that works as well on an Android Phone as on an iPad, iPhone, or PC. By creating your own Learning Mag, you are ensuring that your students have true anywhere, anytime access to their classwork, including assignments, readings, quizzes, videos, the works! Exactly what you want them to see is there, stuffed into the pages of The Learning Mag. "
Jim Farmer

ClassroomWindow - Where The Best Solutions Win - 50 views

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  • Jim Farmer on 03 Feb 12
     
    ClassroomWindow wants to help you make sense of the chaotic world of education technology, textbooks, and tools. The first education directory of its kind, ClassroomWindow features trusted reviews by and for teachers around the globe.
Dennis OConnor

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  • Dennis OConnor on 06 Jul 10
     
    Got  Moodle? Subscribe to the  Extensive Reading approach to second language acquisition? If so, check out the  Moodle Reader Module, a plugin that provides quizzes on more than 600 graded readers and books for EFL/ESL students. According to developer  Tom Robb of Kyoto Sangyo University, "The Reader module allows quizzes to be randomly generated from a larger set of items for each book. The module allows teachers to easily install the module on their own Moodle system, download the quiz material for those textbooks in their graded reader library, and configure its operation to their own preferences." Be aware that you must supply the actual reading materials to your students; Reader Module is strictly a means for administering quizzes based on the reading. Also, as a security measure, Tom requires that you contact him via email for authorization to download the quizzes. Visit moodlereader.org for all the details, including the option to establish your own free course area on his Moodle site.
Genny Kahlweiss

Discovery Education - Where Learning Comes Alive - 0 views

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    Beyond the Textbook Using Digital Media with students
Dimitris Tzouris

The iPad goes to college this fall - CNN.com - 12 views

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  • The program will be used to determine how effective iPads can be as tools to enhance learning as well as how such mobile devices can be integrated into the workplace.
  • The university has already identified one class where the textbook in ePub format costs $100 less than the dead-tree version.
  • there is potential for cost savings as well
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  • With a typical class load of five courses, it could be possible to completely offset the cost of a device like an iPad in textbook savings alone.
  • North Carolina State University Libraries announced this past spring that it acquired 30 iPads to offer students and faculty for four-hour loans as part of the school's Technology Lending Service.
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