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Comment on Beyond the Textbook: The Illusion of Quality in K-12 Education by jim miller

jim miller — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:01:12 +0000

Many 21st century teachers have made a shift from hardbound traditional textbooks to updated, interactive, and free Flexbooks. They have found that teaching from customizable textbooks incorporated with multimedia content is in many ways better than teaching from boring traditional books. CK-12 Flexbooks not only engage students in the learning process and enhance their overall learning experience but also provide quality educational material for K-12 students. Try these: http://goo.gl/ka5OD

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Comment on Can Creative Commons effect social change in education? by Following week 10 tutorial’s exercise, explain why you chose the Creative Commons license that you added to your blog and discuss the relevance (or not) of adding the license. « joannapappa33

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Comment on Beyond the Textbook: The Illusion of Quality in K-12 Education by Weekly Research Index | December 25, 2009 « The Xplanation

Weekly Research Index | December 25, 2009 « The Xplanation — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:53:42 +0000

[...] Opinions on Open › Beyond the Textbook: The Illusion of Quality in K-12 Education — This is a strong counter to those claiming that the traditional publisher textbooks are authoritative and of much higher quality. “Evidence strongly suggests that the average textbook, as currently constructed, is not a high quality resource. Several studies, beginning in the 1980’s, have elaborated on this evidence, concluding that the textbook is a hopelessly low quality educational resource. Low quality because of the way textbooks are written and processed; hopelessly low quality because the existing process of textbook creation is enforced by state policies. This process is known as the state textbook adoption process.” [...]

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Campus Technology, Apple, and Social Learning « The Xplanation — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:48:27 +0000

[...] like to start out today with a link to an insightful piece by Jane Park on the illusion of quality in K12 education. Evidence strongly suggests that the average textbook, as currently constructed, is not a high [...]

Comment on Pearson Deal with Montgomery County Public Schools: All Your Content Are Belong To Us by Janis

Janis — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:19:04 +0000

…we question the soundness of the local board’s policy decision to approve an Agreement that appears duplicative of State efforts, wasteful of resources, and further balkanizes MCPS from the statewide reform initiative…

Maryland State Board of Education August 24, 2010

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2010/09/state-board-of-ed-on-pearsonmcps.html

Comment on Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information by Ronny Parker

Ronny Parker — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:25:45 +0000

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Comment on Pearson Deal with Montgomery County Public Schools: All Your Content Are Belong To Us by Pearson to Pay County For Curriculum «

Pearson to Pay County For Curriculum « — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:36:04 +0000

[...] 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment “TVOL” has a new post noting that education publisher Pearson is paying Montgomery County for its [...]

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Jane Park Interview « — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:58:06 +0000

[...] 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment Jane Park has posted an interview between her and a graduate student interested in Creative Commons. From the [...]

Comment on Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information by Association of American Publishers Pushes Back on Open Textbooks «

Association of American Publishers Pushes Back on Open Textbooks « — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:02:40 +0000

[...] 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment Alex Kozak has a new post on the Association of American Publishers against open textbooks. From the post: [...]

Comment on Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information by mgozaydin

mgozaydin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:35:47 +0000

All authors write their books on computers in these days.
Therefore it is very easy to transform that manuscript to an ebook.
One ebook software can be use by billion times. Then almost anybody can host an ebook.

Comment on Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information by mgozaydin

mgozaydin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:37 +0000

This is what what I had been claiming for the last 10 years.
Books are expensive because of publishers. Numbers are just above. Plus we kill all the forests.
Poor intellectual property rights defenders? Where are you ? Only 10 % goes to professors or authors.
We are willing to pay $ 10 to the professors for an ebook instead of a $ 100 for that publishers’ book.
Publishers will be extinct as well do not worry. Look up Kodak films. Digital photo came. Film industry became extinct. So will publishers. I suggest now sell ebooks at $ 11 ; $ 10 for the writers $ 1 is the profit for distributors.

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Value of Advanced Degrees? « — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:48:03 +0000

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Links 14/1/2010: Many New Android Gadgets | Boycott Novell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:22:54 +0000

[...] Can Creative Commons effect social change in education? The open education community today is only a small subsection of those involved in education worldwide, but some great initiatives and projects have already come out of it. An initiative like Peer 2 Peer University is a prime example of the social change that can happen in education when you start building on the concepts of open. P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers, and it is organized learning that is taking place outside of any institution. It’s what can happen when the default changes, when open educational resources scale. CC helps make that scale possible, which is what will ultimately transform the social landscape of education. [...]

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Does Creative Commons Change Education? « — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:05:20 +0000

[...] 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment Jane Park has a new post asserting that Creative Commons is fundamental to open education. From the post: [...]

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More on Defining Openness « — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:34:29 +0000

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Comment on Beyond the Textbook: The Illusion of Quality in K-12 Education by John McGeough

John McGeough — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:58:11 +0000

This is one of the most spot on brilliant articles on what is wrong with textbooks as we know them. I am fascinated by the concept of designing one’s own learning materials using naturally occuring pathways. Real learning is an organic process much like the growth of healthy plant root systems. Roots follow organic pathways to the raw materials they need each day. The brain will do the same if it is given the chance to actually follow a natural pathway.