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WGU President Scott Pulsipher on Bringing Customer-Centric Culture to Universities

Edsurge

The recognition is that technology is probably one of the most important powering forces behind innovation that’s happening across a variety of different sectors, whether it’s retail, e-commerce, or whether it’s banking and payments online. We haven’t raised our tuition, it’s been the same rate in that time period. Yeah, they do.

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What makes an inspirational teacher?

Learning with 'e's

Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. The SSTAR annual awards not only identifies excellent teaching, but also encourages all of us here in Plymouth to strive to be better, and more inspirational as educators. Photo by Steve Wheeler What makes an inspirational teacher? Unported License.

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8 Reasons to Create Interactive Textbooks for Engaging K-12 Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. Be it an online video or a live seminar. 4 E-Learning Obstacles in Higher Education.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Product knowledge training: Unleashing the beast in your salespeople

Brainscape

And yet, most product knowledge training is delivered linearly, presenting the information ONCE in a seminar, video, or by reading, with the employee never seeing it again. ” Based on their confidence rating, the app’s algorithm will repeat that card again and again, until the answers are deeply ingrained in their memory.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. So my position has changed completely.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. So my position has changed completely.

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