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Archive for February, 2008
12 Feb, 2008
Vision from 1962 of what educational technology would be in 1975
Posted by: admin In: education| user experience
Educational technology of the future - unfortunately, this is pretty close to where we are with most online learning tools in 2008. (From boingboing.com)
Film Based Teaching Machine. Student pushes one of four buttons to give answers and his score appears on paper slip at upper right. Teaching machines, expected to boom in the next […]
Tags: education, online learning
12 Feb, 2008
Textbooks as a service rather than a product
Posted by: admin In: education| publishing| user experience
There have been lots of good ideas being floated around at the
O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference for Publishing but I just heard one of the best.
At the conclusion of one of today’s sessions, an audience member asked the panel about the danger of releasing textbooks into academic environments without DRM. Ben Vershbow turned the question […]
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