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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

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Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Although rentals are a good option approved by educational institutes, OER is yet to be widely accepted by educational institutes.

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Announcing Speakers Plus Bonus Downloads for "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

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This edWebinar was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by Education Networks of America (ENA) , Kajeet , Mobile Beacon , and Parana River Group. ENA delivers comprehensive technology solutions supported by exceptional customer care to education and library institutions across the nation. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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The 2017 Global Education Conference (Online) Starts Today! Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Magda Galloway Global Education Discourses in International Student Mobility - Uttam Gaulee, Krishna Bista Global Learning Collaboration in a Less Tech World - Dr. Reynaldo L. Jack Haskell How to Globally Mobilize High School Students to Actualize the United Nations SDGs. Ping Gao, Ph.D.,