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The Price Is Still Right: 15 Sites for Free Digital Textbooks -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "The following list offers 15 sources of quality digital content to use in your courses without worrying about the price tag. "
Teresa Potter

Screens vs. Print: Does Digital Reading Change How Students Get the Big Picture? - Insi... - 1 views

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  • Among young adults who regularly use smartphones and tablets, just reading a story or performing a task on a screen instead of on paper led to greater focus on concrete details, but less ability to infer meaning or quickly get the gist of a problem,
  • Using a digital format can develop a "mental 'habit' of triggering a more detail-focused mindset, one that prioritizes processing local, immediate information rather than considering more abstract, decontextualized interpretations of information
  • the paper users were significantly more "abstract" in thinking. Digital participants reported preferring concrete rather than abstract descriptions of a behavior
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  • But first, they asked a third of the young adults to think about why they would solve a problem—a way to trigger an abstract frame of thinking—and asked another third to think about how they would solve a problem—designed to prime them for concrete thinking. The third group had no priming. Of the digital readers who had been primed to think abstractly, 48 percent chose the correct car—significantly more than the 25 percent of digital readers primed to think concretely,
wlampner

"Individualized learning environments are still a long way off" - 0 views

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  • Creating content is an involved process. You can’t simply take a textbook, perhaps in digital form, and load it into a learning management system, bit by bit. The material needs to be organized by degree of difficulty and learning objectives. It has to be grouped into modules and tagged to identify the information that is intended for experts, the material students are expected to learn, and the material that is primarily meant to provoke thought.
  • Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
  • he system might determine early on that a given student will find it difficult to pass a test. It could then offer materials to enhance that student’s understanding.
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  • privacy regulations are an obstacle
  • he material needs to be organized by degree of difficulty and learning objectives. It has to be grouped into modules and tagged to identify the information that is intended for experts, the material students are expected to learn, and the material that is primarily meant to provoke thought.
  • Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
  • he system might determine early on that a given student will find it difficult to pass a test. It could then offer materials to enhance that student’s understanding.
  • How well the team works together is also assessed.
  • But if I have upwards of 5,000 students, a certain dynamism is created. Suddenly I have 100 or 200 people in the “first row of the lecture hall” who are very active and serve to motivate the rest of the group. It’s fascinating to see how that works in the online environment.
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