Supplementing Textbooks with Digital Content

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Description: Plans to supplement textbooks with digital content. Source: CNN.com Date: Jan 4 , 2011 A Toronto District School Board Trustee discusses supplementing textbooks with digital content. Questions for discussion: Do you think supplementing textbooks with digital content is a good pedagogical decision? Who should bear the cost or recieve the cost savings as a… Read more »

Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web

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Description: Online education is best known for serving older, nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of “distance learning” are now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses, especially public institutions hit hard by declining state funds. Source: NYT.com Date: Nov 4, 2010 Across the country, online education… Read more »