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Lumen Learning - Courseware: Candela - 0 views

lumenlearning.com/courseware-candela OER open_courseware
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  • wlampner on 22 Sep 15
     
    "Candela courseware from Lumen Learning provides an extremely low cost e-textbook alternative to expensive commercial textbooks in high enrollment college courses. Designed using open educational resources (OER), Candela courses offer much more than just an OER textbook. The Catalog includes OER-based courses for 50+subjects focusing on high enrollment courses students typically take during the first two years of college.
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Baked In: How BenchPrep Is Turning e-Textbooks Into Virtual Study Groups | Fast Company - 2 views

www.fastcompany.com/...ooks-into-virtual-study-groups assessment e-Textbooks
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  • wlampner on 29 Jul 11
     
    Social networking-enabled test prep textbooks with interactive quizzes.
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Screens vs. Print: Does Digital Reading Change How Students Get the Big Picture? - Insi... - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ding_change_comprehension.html e-readers digital textbooks oer
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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,
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