Offer students the best shopping experience on the planet. By uniting in-store, online, and mobile shopping students can buy new, used, rental, and eBook titles in-store online, or from their mobile phones. Rafter marketing programs help build loyalty, drive traffic, and grow market share—both online and in your store. Rafter Cloud Commerce™ is a cloud-based transaction system that integrates online and mobile shopping to enable any type of transaction, anywhere, on any platform. Students can even buy from their mobile phones in your store.
iversity allows faculty...
- to easily set up a course website, to upload teaching materials and engage their students;
- to share links, references and general observations in research groups without the hassle of setting up a content management system or starting and promoting a blog;
- to announce conferences, guest lectures or calls for papers.
iversity allows students...
- to interact with course materials right where they already spend most of their time: online;
- to work together with classmates on assignments (e.g. social reading, collaborative writing);
- to build an archive of learning materials and problem-related discussions in the cloud.
With information being ubiquitous, I believe that teachers can (and should) take control of their courses by creating their own interactive textbooks. It might seem like a daunting task but the availability of quality materials online and the power of tapping into personal learning networks should make this a worthwhile learning journey.
The advancements in tablet technology necessitate a shift in education toward digital content and improved engagement.
Tablets can be the breakthrough that allows teachers to pursue individualized learning curriculum more easily, freeing the teacher to produce a more effective learner experience for the class as a whole.
The tablet interface and app potential is a great step forward for the brilliant educators across the world. These advancements are not intended to replace their skills, but rather, to assist their teaching roles in the most successful way possible.
As technology continues its march toward the Singularity, transforming the way we work, socialize and play at an increasing rate, there is one very important aspect of American society that lags behind: education. Many in Silicon Valley have strong opinions on how education should be improved, perhaps most notably Peter Thiel, who believes we are in a higher education bubble and should be encouraging kids to skip college and pursue entrepreneurship instead. I agree that Americans are placing too much emphasis on higher education, but I think the debate over Thielâs statements misses a much deeper point.
The latest scuttlebutt on Apple’s big education announcement next week: the company is venturing into textbooks.
An industry insider confirmed to the New York Times that Apple will, in fact, be partnering with textbook publishers. No new devices will be shown, the source says, but Apple will discuss their new digital textbook business next week.
“Every child should be learning code, even if it’s just to know how the system works. They should learn how to work collaboratively, how to work in groups, and manage a project. All of those intense skills are similar to the world of learning kids experience online.”
Guest bloggers argue that there’s enough information online to give anyone a Ph.D. in “any subject they choose”.
Educators can do this by creating an intelligent layer on the “Web” of information, using sources that are most useful for their course, and creating a virtual binder of materials through a wiki or other tools. Perhaps the most useful element would be annotating Web pages. By annotating Web pages, teachers could say how they agree or disagree with the argument, refer (and link) to other sources from within that annotation, and even summarize the discussion in a few lines. Students could interact with the faculty by posing questions, or making comments. This annotated, commented binder could be used by other teachers around the Web.
Dosynt anyone?
The fully automated bibliography, research, citation, and internet highlighting tool.
Citelighter is an easy-to-use academic research tool that utilizes a community of students to help you find valuable content, automatically cite sources, and provide an organizational framework for writing your papers.
I'm spending all my time right now thinking about how curling up, engaging and absorbing will impact storytelling and education.
How should a course on World War II history be presented on a tablet?
I know the feeling ..
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An Academy for Self-Learners!
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A place where everyone can bookmark, create, share and socialize information in any format, from websites to online courses and use it efficiently to learn.
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SchooX offers a pleasant way to discover and transform information to knowledge. It offers a social environment where anyone can discover, collect and review knowledge resources of any kind. Users who know what's what can even create online courses and promote them. By using resources of different kinds (web pages, videos, blogs, wikis, online books, documents, online courses) users can knuckle down to any subject they want and even certify their knowledge. On schooX different kinds of resources are supported with special features according to their format. Online courses, for example, are supported by an internal Learning Management Module capable of maintaining the users learning process. SchooX is great and is for everyone! On schooX everyone can be a Discoverer,Collector, Reviewer, Learner or Instructor.
Gallery of interactive graphics from corporate elearning to multimedia journalism.
And a great looking site!
YouTube for Schools brings the power of video to your classrooms for free. Access thousands of free high quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled environment.
This is an article, see how tools and online platforms like scoop.it are leveraged in the classroom.
There is a lot to learn from this.
Curation has been on my mind a lot these holidays….actually, a lot longer than that really. It’s been a long time since 2008 and first using Delicious with my students but it has been only 12 months since my introduction to Social Media as I now use it in my teaching and learning life. These two great presentations below have had me thinking about goals for the coming year. I use and enjoy a variety of tools to curate the web and all for different purposes e.g Livebinders, Diigo, Symbaloo, the Edmodo library. As with all things , it’s the purpose and not the tool that drive the choice and of course my learning evolution.
Help find, share and organise the best free learning on the web. We are still in private beta, but you can apply to be one of the first to try it out
Example: http://www.learnfizz.com/juliewedgwood/content-curation-for-learning
Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016, more than three times the $3.2 billion the category is expected to generate this year, according to one forecaster.
Nearly 30% of all ebooks in 2016 will be downloaded to tablets.
There is an opportunity to:
Also read the bookmark i featured below about self-publishing.
Very interesting post.
The joint model of network administrator and curator form the foundation of what education should be. An expert (the curator) exists in the artifacts displayed, resources reviewed in class, concepts being discussed. But she’s behind the scenes providing interpretation, direction, provocation, and yes, even guiding. A curatorial teacher acknowledges the autonomy of learners, yet understands the frustration of exploring unknown territories without a map. A curator is an expert learner. Instead of dispensing knowledge, he creates spaces in which knowledge can be created, explored, and connected. While curators understand their field very well, they don’t adhere to traditional in-class teacher-centric power structures. A curator balances the freedom of individual learners with the thoughtful interpretation of the subject being explored. While learners are free to explore, they encounter displays, concepts, and artifacts representative of the discipline. Their freedom to explore is unbounded. But when they engage with subject matter, the key concepts of a discipline are transparently reflected through the curatorial actions of the teacher.
Digital learning is changing what it means to be a reader, writer, publisher, editor. The essence of learning is still literacy. We still teach kids to read for understanding, to write with clarity, to pull the big ideas out and to rally others around important ideas. But e-books allow you to highlight, comment, take notes, research the content, and share all that with others. So literacy is changing from linear and solo to dynamic and immersive.
I foresee that e-Learning courses in the future could become the carrier of curated and moderated content.
At the heart of every business beat two essential elements: an idea and a plan. An idea without a plan is just a dream. A plan without an idea is just a list. For a business to grow and thrive, it must have both.
Sometimes the idea comes first: “How about we make a computer screen you can touch?” Add a plan (design + manufacturing + marketing) and you’ve got the iPad. Sometimes the plan comes first: “What would happen if we sold something other than books the way Amazon sells books?” Add an idea (online shoes!) and you’ve got Zappos.
There is not one better than others. Remark that the democratization of education is happening online... There are several startups directly related to educating.
http://www.skillshare.com/ http://www.boundlesslearning.com/ http://www.codecademy.com/
- Don’t believe that building a better product will make you successful. Delivering something for cheaper will. Even if that cheaper thing is lower quality. This is usually repugnant to most well-educated entrepreneurs.
- Don’t start in developed, western countries because that’s where large, Internet businesses have been built. Asia is a much better education market if you want to target consumers.
- Don’t take VC funding because the growth curve in your education business will not live up to VC expectations early on. Take angel money from people who want to make a difference in education. Then take private equity money once you’ve figured out how to get to $10 million in revenue on your own. Even better, don’t take any PE money and grow it on cash flows. Successful education businesses are often not capital constrained.
- Don’t target suburban or urban, middle class users with disposable income. You’ll build a niche business that can’t go mainstream. Target poor students in the US and get to charter schools who are desperate to try new things. Target families in China and India where a family will put down half of their monthly income on education. Or target people who really value education and will pay 10x more for something that is higher quality. That’s where there are big businesses to be built and a willingness for new solutions.
- Don’t expect a quick flip or quick growth. Building a large, successful education company will take 20 years. The growth curve will not be like an Internet technology company until you hit $10+ million in revenue. Then things will ramp quickly because you will have identified your core market and built the beginnings of a brand; the education industry is small and people will know if you deliver real value.
As graduate LIS/IS education seeks to respond to intensifying virtual information and preservation environments, it becomes increasingly clear that innovative teaching tools and methods are required. These teaching tools must complement and enhance state-of-the-art curriculum offerings in subjects such as digital curation. The digital curation courses offered in the LIS School at Simmons College, Boston illustrate an innovative virtual and experiential approach. At the heart of these courses is the Digital Curriculum Laboratory, a virtual archives and preservation laboratory. This paper discusses and demonstrates the relationship between a digital curriculum laboratory, the successful delivery of a digital curation curriculum and its wider international implications.
Another site has popped up called “My Name Is Me” where people vocalize their support for pseudonyms. What’s most striking is the list of people who are affected by “real names” policies, including abuse survivors, activists, LGBT people, women, and young people.
Psuedonyms are moving towards broad social acceptance. Young adults who become active online under a pseudonym may eventually want to include that identity on a job application, so that they can profile the content they have produced. Will educators accept pseudonyms for classroom projects? ... just another transforming social norm brought on by the web.
TED Talks MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
The Horizon Report is an annual publication of the trends and technological expectations for K-12 education. It is published by the New Media Consortium and is
It is fair to say that education systems globally are now entering a new state of rapid change as they try to establish how and what this technology will do to the existing education paradigms.
Yup
as unemployment hovers around double digits, the cost of universities soars and kids graduate and move back home with their parents, the once-heretical question of whether education is worth the exorbitant price has started to be re-examined
Something to really think about
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