Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

Simple But Powerful Creativity, Presentation, and Storytelling Tools FREE for Teachers and Students

If you’re looking to create narrated videos, printed materials, graphics, or writing assignments that students can quickly and easily turn in, you want Spark. Adobe Spark

McGraw-Hill Education Delivers New Game-Based Learning Simulations in Higher Education Course Materials

New Capabilities Let Students Apply Knowledge to Real-World Scenarios, Develop Critical Thinking Skills NEW YORK, N.Y. (April 23, 2018) – Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education today announced the addition of more than 50 game-based learning simulations and scenario-based learning activities to digital course materials for use this fall in Principles of Economics, Introduction to Business, […]

Volunteers Step in to Launch NMC Horizon Report Alternative

In the wake of the New Media Consortium’s bankruptcy and an uncertain future for the organization’s “Horizon” reports, a new initiative undertaken by a group of volunteers aims to create an alternative forum for forecasting the future of technology in education. The “Future of Education & Everything Community” (FOECast) is kicking off this week with […]

The South joins a global conversation on open education

A 21-country study aimed at understanding how open educational resources (OER) can improve access, enhance quality and reduce education costs in the Global South not only fills a major gap in empirical research, but has helped to grow a community of researchers in the region and given educators in the South a space to voice […]

The 17th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning Mobilized Learning: Pedagogical and Technological Innovation for Teaching & Learning

mLearn is the leading international conference on mobile and contextual learning and attracts participants annually from more than 60 countries. mLearn 2018 provides a forum for researchers, policy makers, professionals and educators from higher education, school education and vocational education, government departments, industries and international organisations as well as IT developers and solutions providers to […]

Interactive platform DBQuest wants K-12 history students to go deeper than famous quotes

Launched by nonprofit iCivics, the online repository of primary documents and videos aims to expand students’ understanding of civics. edscoop

The New Google Play Audiobooks and the Academic Library

Excellent news that Google is getting into the audiobook business. Starting this week, audiobooks are available on Google Play. The online store has decent selection of newly released audiobooks for under $10. Even better, your first audiobook purchase is 50 percent off. Inside Higher Ed

IU Libraries Moving Image Archive is the new home for decades of award-winning commercials

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Thanks to the recent acquisition of a complete and well-documented archive, the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive is the new home for tens of thousands of television commercials competing for the former Clio Awards in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Indiana University

CES 2018 Is Livestreamed

You could have a front-row seat at more than 65 conference sessions at CES 2018. Don’t miss the industry leaders and visionary speakers presenting at the global stage for innovation. CES 2018  

Humanities research in the digital age

Since the earliest civilizations, people have recorded their thoughts and experiences through storytelling, art, philosophy and other forms of expression. In today’s digital age, scholars are advancing humanities research with tools like visual mapping and computation to better probe questions of what makes us human. Stanford University