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Blackboard Announces Collaboration With Major Textbook Publishers - Wired Campus - The ... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 11
     
    "Four major textbook providers-Cengage, Macmillan, Pearson, and John Wiley & Sons-today announced that they will build tighter links between their advanced e-textbook platforms and Blackboard's popular course-management system. Blackboard announced a similar deal with McGraw-Hill last year. So the company now has partnerships with the five dominant textbook publishers. For students, a major benefit will be the ability to get to the publishers' e-textbooks and online assignments through the campus network without having to create new logins and passwords. For professors, the new links will make it easier to push students' grades on online quizzes from the publishers' e-textbook systems to the gradebook they use on the Blackboard system."
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 11
     
    This is a real plus for BB.
Christie Robertson

6 Steps to adapting an Open Textbook | Opening Education - 0 views

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publishing OER steps

shared by Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13
     
    A blog post with helpful tips on publishing an open textbook. Written for BCampus and their open textbook initiative, but most steps relate to publishing in general
Jackie Doherty

McElvaney - 1 views

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shared by Jackie Doherty on 28 May 11 - Cached
  • Free and easy-to-use technologies offer new ways to find, organize, create, and interact with information.
  • The 2009 Horizon Report defines personal webs as "customized, personal web-based environments . . . that explicitly support one's social, professional, [and] learning . . . activities via highly personalized windows to the networked world" (Johnson, Levine & Smith, 2009, p. 19), and heralds them as an emerging learning trend.
  • This paper explores personal web technologies (PWTs) and their learning applications. Examples are given of commonly used, customizable technologies such as: social bookmarking, personal publishing tools, aggregators, and metagators.
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  • learning needs extend far beyond the culmination of a training session or degree program. Working adults must continually update their skills and behaviours to conform to the constantly changing demands of the workplace (Lewis & Romiszowski, 1996)
  • some needs may best be addressed by the individual him/herself.
  • PLE) to manage their own learning resources; whether these are wikis, news feeds, podcasts, or people.
  • The use of PWTs for learning directly supports several principles of connectivism, a learning theory outlined by Siemens (2006): (i) Knowledge rests in networks, (ii) Knowledge may reside in non-human appliances, and learning is enabled / facilitated by technology, and (iii) Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities (p. 31).
  • If individuals can sufficiently develop their ability to find, organize, and manage these connections, their available knowledge does not have to be limited by the confines of their own skulls.
  • To navigate the Internet more efficiently, individuals can assemble a virtual toolbox from an ever-growing list of free, and often open-source, technologies to aid in aggregating, organizing, and publishing information online.
  • To create a personal web for learning, it is first necessary to explore what personal web technologies are, where to find them, and how to use them.
  • Social bookmarking and research tools allow users to save web pages, articles, and other media (usually to an online storage location) and organize them in personally meaningful ways.
  • n general, the length and full-featured capabilities of blogging offer learners the opportunity to explore topics in depth and reflect, while the speed and simplicity of micro-blogging lends itself more towards posing questions and collaborative brainstorming (King, 2009).
  • esides enriching and enlivening a post, these tools make it possible for an individual to publish artifacts that are ill-served by text-only displays.
  • Micro-blogs, such as Twitter (twitter.com), allow users to post short messages from their computer or mobile phone.
  • Users can also 'follow' other members to receive a stream of their posts.
  • asily "ask and answer questions, learn from experts, share resources, and react to events on the fly"
  • ndividuals who follow multiple blogs and/or regularly visit news or media sites may find juggling the disparate streams of information overwhelming. For this reason, it can be helpful to subscribe to these streams (or “feeds”) by using an aggregator.
  • Metagators, also called portals or start pages, can aggregate feeds, social networks, and widgets to create a central, personalized location for an individual's Internet usage
  • Netvibes and iGoogle
  • Widgets are small, adaptable, programmable, web-based gadgets that can be embedded into a variety of sites or used on mobile phones or desktops (
  • Due to the fact that they are user-created, there is no exact definition of a PLE (PLE, n.d.). In general, a PLE is the sum of websites and technologies that an individual makes use of to learn.
  • PLEs may range in complexity from a single blog to an inter-connected web of social bookmarking tools, personal publishing platforms, search engines, social networks, aggregators, etc.
  • http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Ple
  • Once an individual creates a PLE or PLN, there is no need to sit in front of a computer to access it. The majority of PWTs have mobile-friendly versions available, allowing individuals to take their learning to go.
  • Instead of limiting learning to traditional environments, mobile versions of PWTs give learners more options on where and when to learn.
  • However, there is a catch: PWTs may clash with traditional, linear, teacher-centered instruction (see Figure 2)
  • Learners who use PWTs must learn to question sources, verify information, compare and contrast various perspectives and become more independent
  • need to focus on building critical media and information literacy skills, so that students can effectively navigate the online maze and avoid being fooled by false or misleading information.
  • students have already experimented with a personal web technology, such as social networking, but, "few of them are being taught how to leverage its potential and benefit from the deep learning that can ensue"
  • In higher education, PWTs could be of great use for researching, developing PLNs, and creating online portfolios.
  • An undergraduate student who uses a research tool such as Zotero will graduate with a searchable, organized collection of annotated resources that could be valuable in the workplace or in future academic undertakings.
  • As the individual becomes increasingly connected to their PLN, they may become increasingly disconnected to those who are physically around them, such as family and friends
  • Using PWTs to incessantly check for new articles, status updates, and activity may become a drain on one’s attention and productivity
  • Valuable or innovative ideas put forth by lesser-known individuals can easily become lost in the noise.
  • ndividuals who wish to learn from their personal network must strive to create a diverse PLN populated with voices that may dissent, challenge, or provoke. Otherwise, the PLN cannot foster critical and creative thinking,
  • anything they publish on the Internet may be found by supervisors, peers, teachers, a
  • uture hiring managers (Harris, 2007)
Christie Robertson

PressBooks | Simple Book Publishing - 0 views

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ebook publishing

shared by Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13
     
    This tool is suggested by BCampus for publishing an open textbook
anonymous

It's Here: A Science Book That's Always Up-to-Date | MindShift - 1 views

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etext biology

shared by anonymous on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 26 May 11
     
    "Nature Education, the educational wing of the Nature Publishing Group which also runs Scitable, one of the largest science publishers in the world - is hoping to resolve this with the release its first ever science textbook. It's called the Principles of Biology, and for a $49 lifetime access, students receive a constantly-updated biology textbook, for less cost."
anonymous

Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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etexts

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  • anonymous on 14 Feb 12
     
    "Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus. This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries. To learn whether e-book readers have become widely popular among college students, this study surveys students at one large, urban, four-year public college. The survey asked whether the students owned e-book readers and if so, how often they used them and for what purposes. Thus far, uptake is slow; a very small proportion of students use e-readers. These students use them primarily for leisure reading and continue to rely on print for much of their reading. Students reported that price is the greatest barrier to e-reader adoption and had little interest in borrowing e-reader compatible e-books from the library. "
anonymous

C.E.T.L.:: Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning - 0 views

www.kennesaw.edu/...journals.html

sotl

shared by anonymous on 15 Aug 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Aug 11
     
    "Journals that Publish the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning and Address General Issues in Higher Education If you would like to suggest any additions or changes to this list, please e-mail Tom Pusateri, CETL Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The links on this site were last updated on July 11, 2011. The next full-scheduled update will occur in late December 2011. Journals are listed alphabetically within each category. A brief description of the journal, usually quoted from the journal's Web site, and a link to the journal is provided. "
Kathy Schwarz

Zebrazapps - 1 views

This is a new product from Michael Allen from Allen Interactions Inc. They were the makers of Authorware for anyone who remembers that far back. It is described as... ZebraZapps is a cloud-based...

Online tools

started by Kathy Schwarz on 04 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Tyler Wall

Largest supplier of free online learning? - 2 views

Wow that is cool, I too would like to hear from someone who has taken a course through them.

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 May 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 01 May 12
Kathy Schwarz

The LMS Instructure Makes Its Move into the K-12 Market - 2 views

The learning management system upstart Instructure is unveiling Canvas K-12 today, a version of its platform aimed - as the name suggests - for the K-12 level. The company says that it's already ha...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Christie Robertson

CoursePacker - 1 views

coursepacker.org

OER Publishing Course-pack

shared by Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13
     
    A tool that allows you to drag and drop OER files and it will create a course pack (PDF or ePub) for you.
Kathy Schwarz

Technology Review Magazine published by MIT - 1 views

If you want to know what's new, check it out... http://www.technologyreview.com/?mod=Nav_Home

research website

started by Kathy Schwarz on 26 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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