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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. After all, textbooks are a must in classrooms. It is believed that textbook prices have skyrocketed over the last few years.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Google Classroom – This is not an LMS. Caroline for example, on SoundForge had 37 downloads this week, even though the last update (On SoundForge) for the listing is 2015, but for the actual code is 2014 (for stable). . And yes, saying Moodle alternatives and then listing Moodle itself first, is weird. .

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Online Educa Berlin 2014 Conference Review #OEB14

eLearning 24-7

1 LMS for 2015 (surprise!) – gamification wrapped around strong feature set includes many of my next tier gamification feature sets including built-in badge library. – in my Top 10 for 2015 blog which will appear week of Jan 20th, the same week, my Top 50 LMS rankings report is available for purchase. Growth Engineering.

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eLearning Conferences 2013

Tony Karrer

link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] April 25-28, 2013 Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom (ACTC), Osaka, Japan. link] July 11-14, 2013 European Conference on Technology in the Classroom (ECTC), Brighton, UK.