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Paul Beaufait

Open Education for a Global Economy - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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ALISON education free global IT4ALL MOOCs NYTimes online education

shared by Paul Beaufait on 02 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • ALISON provides free online interactive education to help people acquire basic workplace skills.
  • Right now, a lot of free education is thrown online without a clear sense of how it will help people prepare themselves for employment.
  • The decision to make everything on ALISON free remains the key factor that distinguishes the site from others of its type, and makes it globally valuable.
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  • At ALISON, all students receive a learning record, a kind of archive of their response to life’s vicissitudes.
  • Paul Beaufait on 02 Aug 12
     
    In this opinion piece, David Bornstein examined Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON) and found it addressed a global need for job skill development.
Paul Beaufait

Macmillan's DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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Macmillan textbooks editability NYTimes education technology

shared by Paul Beaufait on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 28 Mar 10
     
    "Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes" (Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally, para. 1).
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