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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon

Edsurge

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

As one writing instructor posted to an e-mail list in 2005: “Am I being a stick-in-the-mud for for being horrified by students’ use of this source?”. At any rate, those folks on Wikipedia, they're volunteers. How things have changed. Today, a growing number of professors have embraced Wikipedia as a teaching tool.

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The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. The school district couldn’t cover the cost of non-recurring construction to build fiber to their most rural school with just E-rate. What are the costs of not upgrading? The best part?

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). I managed to grab some of his time to ask him a few questions about his work.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

WorldCat also features open source e-books, articles, and downloadable audiobooks and photos. In 2005, Internet Archive started a program to digitize books and since then the site scanned millions of books with a current rate of 4000 scanned books every day. All books published before 1927 are available for free download.

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Why We Don't Need a 'Netflix for Education'

Edsurge

While Netflix's algorithms can rely on viewer ratings and behavior to determine how successful its recommendations are, effective educational personalization requires objective measures of student learning. References Bjork, E. And the problem is that education companies often seem to be measuring everything but learning--e.g.,