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How Digital Textbooks and Instructional Books Can Enhance Your Learning Experience

Kitaboo

The era of simple digital textbooks began in 2004 in Texas when the Forney School District adopted a pilot program to provide fifth and sixth-grade students with digital textbooks. To provide rich, relevant, and cost-effective education. But how did they come into existence?

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Shock of the new

Learning with e's

In the first phase, known as survival , teachers struggle to define what they wish to achieve with the new technology, and attempt to learn how to use it effectively to support pedagogy. The third phase, impact , is evaluative, and requires users to apraise the extent to which the technology is being effective.

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Tested to distraction

Learning with e's

This is a scheme that failed and was withdrawn in 2004, but is now being proposed again. For the current UK government, testing is not there to support better learning. The side effects of over-testing are that children become victims of the scramble to be best in the league tables. So there we have it.

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Why yesterday’s skills and development strategies aren’t enough to survive today’s digital transformation

CrossKnowledge

Digital literacy involves more than the mere ability to use software or operate a digital device; it includes a large variety of complex cognitive, motor, sociological, and emotional skills, which users need in order to function effectively in digital environments [8]. 7] Jenkins, Clinton, Purushotma, Robinson and Weigel (2004).

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How To Build a Serious Game: Part 1

TalentLMS

Juul, 2004) Did you know that instruction design principles can actually fulfill the gaps in game design principles, when developing a serious game? What if a decision is not supported? The “evaluation” part enables the serious game designer to catch all exceptions; the looming doubt of “what if the decision is not supported”.

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Free e-Learning books

eFront

> Resources Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Improving the Odds of Effective Collaborative Work in Online Courses Joanna C. This e-book represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success. Dunlap Learning 2.0

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That’s not my style: Learning preferences and instructional design

Obsidian Learning

In a recent blog post published by the New York Times , Anna North noted that the concept of “learning styles” is still prevalent among educators, even though there is little empirical research to support it. Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: A systematic and critical review. Coffield, F., Moseley, D.,