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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. My favs include the new edition that includes like maybe a new chapter and obsoletes every used version out there so either you cant sell a book or you cant buy used but have to buy new. Thats awesome.

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Let's go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. My favs include the new edition that includes like maybe a new chapter and obsoletes every used version out there so either you can't sell a book or you can't buy used but have to buy new. That's awesome.

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70 years on and still relevant: The Sabre-Toothed Future

Performance Learning Productivity

He made a name for himself by producing a very fine version of the pear-shaped chipped-stone tool anthropologists call the coup-de-poing , or fist-hammer. It is something that endures through changing conditions like a solid rock, standing firmly in the middle of a raging torrent.” Education is timeless.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning - Untitled Article

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Textbook torrents a-crashin’ - Abject Learning , September 11, 2009. What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action (version 0.9) , September 14, 2009. Fatheads and centerfolds - The Thinking Meat Project , September 17, 2009. Do Social Networks Shape Our Lives ? Wirearchy , September 12, 2009.

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Electronic Learning System: Which one is best?

Ed App

Few people can absorb a torrent of information in a single course or lesson but breaking it down into smaller parts is clinically proven to make it absorbed more efficiently. Doing so would also mean that updating information and version control becomes very hard to manage. Microlearning. eLearning Templates.