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Coursera launches with new OER strategies
Lifelong learners everywhere start cheering. I just added Coursera to our list of open educational resources (OER). But in several exciting ways this one is very different. Courses are free and are...
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Boundless as a free text option
Boundless is a new, free open source textbook replacement or alternative service designed for university students. But it may be a part of the solution for many of us in high schools unable to keep up...
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School of Open opens
School of Open Project Showcase from Creative Commons on Vimeo. As teacher librarians, we need to be aware of major shifts in the intellectual property arena. We need to be experts on the exciting...
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National Digital Public Library to launch
A detail from the preliminary model for the home page of the Digital Public Library of America’s website, to be available at http://dp.la/ The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is one of those...
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Shopping for online courses and other educational content
For the growing numbers of us searching for online courses, as well as online educational resources, the portals are quickly growing in both number and size. Finding the best or most relevant content...
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OpenEd: an umbrella OER search and LMS
As a librarian, I’ve been collecting and curating OER portals for teachers for years now. I think it’s time to stop. OpenEd is doing a far better job. When Adam Blum tried to help his struggling son...
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Ben’s Guide relaunches
In collaboration with our own AASL, the Government Printing Office just updated and redesigned its Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government. This new portal is designed to inform students, parents, and...
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OER and you. The curation mandate
At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. As...
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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways
http://tinyurl.com/curationsituations Curation is a funny word. When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we...
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Collections by Destiny
It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. Are you leveraging it to its fullest potential? Follett is about to launch an add-on to its Destiny’s...
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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for...
You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016...
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Open Library gets even more open
Created in 2006 by a team led by Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, Open Library is an Internet Archive project developed to present one web page for every book ever published. This wiki approach to a...
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Oasis: An integrated worldwide search for OER
Meet OASIS. The goal of the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search is to facilitate the discovery of OER. Co-developed at SUNY Geneseo by Ben Rawlins, director of Milne Library, and Bill Jones,...
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National Digital Public Library to launch
A detail from the preliminary model for the home page of the Digital Public Library of America’s website, to be available at http://dp.la/ The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is one of those...
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Shopping for online courses and other educational content
For the growing numbers of us searching for online courses, as well as online educational resources, the portals are quickly growing in both number and size. Finding the best or most relevant content...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OpenEd: an umbrella OER search and LMS
As a librarian, I’ve been collecting and curating OER portals for teachers for years now. I think it’s time to stop. OpenEd is doing a far better job. When Adam Blum tried to help his struggling son...
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Ben’s Guide relaunches
In collaboration with our own AASL, the Government Printing Office just updated and redesigned its Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government. This new portal is designed to inform students, parents, and...
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OER and you. The curation mandate
At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. As...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Curation Situations: Let us count the ways
http://tinyurl.com/curationsituations Curation is a funny word. When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we...
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Collections by Destiny
It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. Are you leveraging it to its fullest potential? Follett is about to launch an add-on to its Destiny’s...
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