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Francisco Reveles

University of Chicago Acts to Improve Access for Lower-Income Students - NYTimes.com - 2 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...or-lower-income-students-.html

access university

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  • Jamie F on 03 Oct 14
     
    I say it's about time. A family member of mine studied on the East Coast USA and tuition was impossible. While I can't speak extensively for American schools, I can say that post-secondary education at established universities in Canada is expensive and the financial burden becomes a stressor, often effecting academic performance. It is accessible, yes. National and provincial student loans make it possible for almost anyone to obtain a post-secondary education. But does it make sense? Definitely not. The debt incurred by students is mortifying. What about a European model? Many schools around the globe offer free post-secondary educations. I recently visited New Mexico, where if you stay within the state after high school graduation you enter a lottery to go to university for free. Every entree into the lottery is awarded sufficient funds to make a post-secondary career in the state of New Mexico feasible. My question about this article is about how "low income" is determined. There are a lot of factors that can play into one's financial needs that sometimes aren't on paper.
Anna Kloc

OERPUB | OERPUB is creating innovative open-source tools for authoring, adapting, remix... - 5 views

oerpub.org

module9 open access

shared by Anna Kloc on 31 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Anna Kloc on 31 Oct 14
     
    Open-source tools
  • pad123 on 31 Oct 14
     
    very good information
  • Ibraghimova Irina on 01 Nov 14
     
    thanks for pointing to this resource. The Textbook Editor and OER Importer look very promising. Math editing could be very useful, too
Guaraciara Silva

LEARN ANY LANGUAGE WITH ZELLO APP - 4 views

Resource: ZELLO APP Website: www.zello.com It is a free tool and anyone can do until five profiles freely. It is available in 10 different languages as English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Ital...

knowledge zello app resources access global network

started by Guaraciara Silva on 18 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
rlamim

Demystifying the MOOC - 4 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...demystifying-the-mooc.html

nyt okmooc

shared by rlamim on 03 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • rlamim on 03 Nov 14
     
    The comments are very good. They show the same numbers and facts of the article, but in other perspective. The best one, in my opinion.
  • Ana Muñoz de Rivera on 03 Nov 14
     
    True, for openknowledge, teachers should know that not everyone studies at the same pace and that's why open access is so interesting.
  • Leopoldo Basurto on 03 Nov 14
     
    Una buena aportación, rlamim. Además muy muy reciente.
monde3297

The 5 Main Fluencies of The 21st Century Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile L... - 0 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...fluencies-of-21st-century.html

Information Literacy

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  • monde3297 on 06 Nov 14
     
    October 29, 2014 Today I want to share with you this awesome read I came across in Global Citizen Education. The article is entitled " 21st Century Fluencies" and is basically based on Crockett et al.'s book Literacy is Not Enough .
nivinsharawi

7 Excellent Tools to Publish Students Work ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 4 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...tools-to-publish-students.html

education

shared by nivinsharawi on 31 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • noveltynotion on 31 Oct 14
     
    There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder.
  • Ibraghimova Irina on 01 Nov 14
     
    Looks like a useful compilation of tools. have to check if all of them are still available. as it is from 2012 and things are cganging rapidely online
  • nivinsharawi on 16 Nov 14
     
    I like idea to involve undergrastuden to be experience inall publishing process
Olivia Azar

DRM on books - 0 views

www.digitaltrends.com/...ns-to-free-your-kindle-library

DRM copyright open publishing

shared by Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14
     
    5 reasons to eliminate DRM on books. This favors open knowledge.
monde3297

THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK - 11 views

www.buzzfeed.com/...the-future-is-never

open access

shared by monde3297 on 30 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • petrae77 on 30 Nov 14
     
    The year I graduated high school, the media was overrun with speculation about a new technology set to shake the foundation of the world. What was it? We weren't told, exactly. All we knew was that code name "IT" was so revolutionary that we would have to rebuild our cities from scratch.
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  • kristykim on 30 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing. I also heard that many universities are getting rid of their printed textbooks and only using e-texbook due to high prices that students have to pay for their printed textbooks. They may order in the printed textbook, but majority of schools are going digital.
  • siyuwang on 04 Dec 14
     
    Thank you for sharing this resource. This reminds me of a news article I read before, which is "Apple Announces E-Book Store". According to that news article, Apple announced the create of iBook store in Apple's event in Jan 27 2010, hoping to reshape the e-book industry with a vast selection of electronic books in iBook. Electronic books offered in iBook store are around the same price as Amazon's Kindle platform, but with much more functions and convenience. Taking the form of iPad, and with the support of five largest publishers in the world, iBook offers the electronic version of various books and ebbeds multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files into books, which is revolutionary. Therefore, the rapid development of technology has promoted the rapid changes and upgrading in book industry. From traditional physical books that we buy from retailers or borrow from libraries, to the online book sellers who sell both physical books and electronic books, to today, ebook stores in portable and mobile devices, how we read, when we read, where we read, and what we read have been transformed to a large extent.
  • haileyhjw on 05 Dec 14
     
    This is a good article. Sometimes, we think new technology will be a disrupted tech to kill and totally replace old industry.But actually, for old industry, the market will shrink a lot ,but won't totally disappear.
  • Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14
     
    What's going to happen with printed books?
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    It depends on which side of the fence is one sitting on. The truth is the book is here to stay.
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    It is interesting that whenever a new innovation is introduced, the current one is declared dead before its final time arrives. Books in whatever format are appealing to different audiences for various reasons. To think that the introduction of e-books was going to lead to a declaration of war on printed books is laughable. Books will be with us for as long as we are still in this world. Does format matter? only time will tell.
  • ukanjilal on 12 Dec 14
     
    Long back Lancaster wrote about paperless society but still we are heavily depending on paper only. Technology has fast evolved. First we talked about e-libraries then virtual libraries and now contemplating cloud based libraries. Many technologies have come and gone but paper is still ubiquitous.
Sergio Leal

Tool for movie creation - 2 views

www.magisto.com

publishing module 7

shared by Sergio Leal on 12 Dec 14 - No Cached
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  • Sergio Leal on 12 Dec 14
     
    Allows mobile and is easy to create creative videos.
tlsohn

Facebook ready to spend billions to bring whole world online: Mark Zuckerberg - The Eco... - 0 views

m.economictimes.com/...41820623.cms

mooc

shared by tlsohn on 06 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • tlsohn on 06 Sep 14
     
    Short interesting article given this week's videos/readings on social economics as well as sharing information through technology. Mark Zuckerberg certainly has a vision for giving every single person on the planet the ability to communicate with each other and make commerce a more available item for anyone
mbchris

The Dawn of the Zettabyte Era [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

blogs.cisco.com/...-the-zettabyte-era-infographic

zettabyte how much data is out there data curation data access infographic

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  • mbchris on 14 Oct 14
     
    It's common knowledge that the amount of online rich media consumption is increasing exponentially on an annual basis. But how much video traffic is projected over the next five years? And what does this growth really mean for global residential, business, and mobile subscribers and the service providers that support them? I have used this infographic many times since I have found it. There are times in presentations or when trying to educate people on the size and scope of the internet that words do not do enough. The pictures and numbers and scaling provided by this infographic conveys the message quite well even if the numbers are losing their meaning because they are so large. The other important part of this infographic is that is is updated constantly. When I first found this link it was referring to the year 2014, as of this post it is now referencing 2015 and what will be available on line at that time.
mbchris

Data.gov - 2 views

www.data.gov

US Government Open Data Open Data Data Sets Information you can use

shared by mbchris on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • mbchris on 14 Oct 14
     
    The home of the U.S. Government's open data Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. This tool is very powerful for researchers that may not access to the funds and resources of researchers from well funded universities or that of the US Government. This resources breaks the data out into 21 different topics covering areas from education to the ocean. Each section has data sets to choose from and access to grant information as well as articles and updates on each topic. Even it you are someone that does not have the capacity to use these resources, I believe that it is good to know where to find this source so that you can share it with others, or perhaps one day you will have the ability to use this resource more fully.
Anna Kloc

Must Have Life-long Learning Tools and Strategies for Teachers ~ Educational Technology... - 3 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...e-long-learning-tools-and.html

Knowledge Open open access

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  • Anna Kloc on 02 Nov 14
     
    A teacher is a life long learner, in fact, everyone should be a lifelong learner, but the difference between us ( teachers and educators ) and others is that we have no choice but to be life long learners. We can not stop learning for fear that we might be outrun by our students.
  • Kaitie Warren on 26 Nov 14
     
    Interesting way to frame teachers' life long learning: "for fear that we might be outrun by our students". The author also tells teachers that they need to lead students, "not lag behind". These ideas bring up interesting questions around self-directed learning and participatory learning environments, which might actually celebrate times when students outrun their teachers by finding new tools and solutions and leading their teachers in different directions.
Alexandra Finch

From Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the Classroom - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...ent-wireless-devices-classroom

crap detection module10 information literacy

shared by Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14 - No Cached
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  • Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14
     
    a. Finding a balance between technology and teaching has proved challenging in the traditional classroom. Some institutions, such as University of Chicago Law School, have altogether banned internet access in the classroom, claiming that it imposes on the integrity of the education. Although the authors draw attention to research demonstrating the rampant frequency of distractions with laptop and mobile technology amongst students, they beg the question of whose fault it really is - and begs educators to reflect on their own teaching, and the educational institution as a whole. Fang describes possible solutions for the distraction dilemma for educators to apply to the modern classroom. Filtering applications can help to create a temporary filter on computer applications to ensure a singular task, or set of permitted tasks, are accessed. Network switching allows faculty and network administrators to determine which, if any, applications can use a network at a given time. Social solutions can also be effective; by educating the student on the issue of technology-related distraction in classrooms, and assessing teaching styles, class formats and institutional practices. In the modern classroom, the professor and technology should coexist peacefully; yet it will take social and technical finesse in order to find the right balance for the maximum benefit of the student.
jurado-navas

InTech - Open Science Open Minds | InTechOpen - 0 views

www.intechopen.com

module4 open open access creative commons

shared by jurado-navas on 12 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • jurado-navas on 12 Oct 14
     
    InTechOpen is a leading global publisher of Journals and Books within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. We are the preferred choice of over 60,000 authors worldwide. Hello everybody, Editorial Intech is a good example of Creative Commons Publication Site: www.intechopen.com They are focused on the scientific world with a great variety of topics including engineering, mathematics, linguistics, software, radio mobile communications, etc. In this sense, let me one of my recent publications there: "A unifying statistical model for atmospheric optical communications", focused on the generation of a new statistical model that unifies in a single closed form expression many of other probability density functions employed in the literature to model the turbulent atmosphere as an optical channel of communications. http://cdn.intechweb.org/pdfs/20889.pdf Best regards, Dr. Antonio Jurado-Navas University of Málaga (Spain)
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  • Ibraghimova Irina on 23 Oct 14
     
    Very useful resource. Recommended it some time ago to colleagues in Ethiopia when they started a new university programme in biomedical engineering and were looking for publications that they can use in their curriculum
  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    Thank you, Ibraghimova.
  • Matt Tibble on 10 Nov 14
     
    I have now only realized that this site is an Open Knowledge site, and I had used it over a year ago to cite some research for a paper on renewable energies. You might be interested in this site for sharing scientific data: http://www.researchgate.net/
jurado-navas

Is this the end for books? - 5 views

www.theguardian.com/...kindle-books

Module8 publishing open future

shared by jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    In 1996, the US computer entrepreneur Brewster Kahle set up the Internet Archive, its mission being to provide "universal access to all knowledge". This admirable project strives to store copies of every single web page ever posted: a ghostly archive of the virtual.
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  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    Apliquemos la ley de Clarke a estas predicciones. Si la predicción de los eminentes estudiosos de edad madura, y bibliófilos, se formula así: ES POSIBLE QUE EL LIBRO IMPRESO EN PAPEL NO DESAPAREZCA, y la ley de Clarke dice: "Cuando un científico pero de edad madura afirma que algo es posible, casi siempre estará en lo cierto. Cuando declara que algo es imposible, lo más probable es que se equivoque", la predicción casi siempre será cierta si esos libros no desaparecen. Si la predicción se formula en esta forma: ES IMPOSIBLE QUE EL LIBRO DESAPAREZCA, y los libros desaparecen, lo más probable es que se equivoquen. ¿Por cuál fórmula optamos? Apliquemos ahora la primera versión del corolario de Asimov a la predicción que augura el fin del libro formulada así: EL LIBRO ESTÁ MUERTO (O MORIRÁ), AUNQUE NO DEL TODO. El corolario dice: "Sin embargo, cuando el público profano se manifiesta en torno a una idea denunciada por científicos eminentes pero de edad madura, y apoya dicha idea con fervor y sentimiento, es posible, después de todo, que los científicos eminentes pero de edad madura estén en lo cierto". Por lo tanto: Es posible, después de todo, que los eminentes estudiosos pero de edad madura, y bibliófilos, estén en lo cierto. No hay más remedio que esperar a que pase el tiempo para ver si se cumplen la ley y los corolarios en las predicciones, enunciadas en una u otra forma. (Tomado de http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0025-76802012000200019)
  • ibudule on 17 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for posting. Although I am not very keen on reading fiction electronically, the article was very interesting and informative about the latest tendencies in electronic publishing.
  • nthabi on 17 Nov 14
     
    I am one of those people who like reading books electronically and enjoy it. Kindle has been around for some years now but we still have books publshed in paper format. There is still a number of people who prefare to have paper copy of a book. Books are here to stay. I have a kindle but I hardly ever use the devise. I use the app on my mobile, computer or Ipad.
Kim Baker

South Africa's internet penetration poor - 0 views

www.moneyweb.co.za/...ernet-penetration-poor--census

module11 digital divide

shared by Kim Baker on 19 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 19 Nov 14
     
    "The results further showed that 64.8% of households in South Africa had no access to the Internet. Of those households that had access to the Internet, 16.3% accessed it via cellphone, 8.6% from home, 5.6% from elsewhere and 4.7% from work."
  • ekw1993 on 19 Nov 14
     
    It's unfortunate that South Africa is still plagued by inequality. While it is good that some are accessing the web via mobile, ideally more efforts would be done to create infrastructure to serve entire communities.
Kelly Furey

Social Media to Tell a Story - 1 views

Thanks for sharing slacey21! I am always excited to hear more about visual media and love that mobile users now have the opportunity to curate their own consumption.

knowledge social media snap chat

started by slacey21 on 01 Dec 14 1 follow-up, last by Kelly Furey on 03 Dec 14
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