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"Now, everyone knows that the college textbook market is horrifically broken. But just how “there’s no way that can possibly be true” broken is it? Here’s a quick comparison between major media types that shows how INSANELY EXPENSIVE textbooks are."

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What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.

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Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary. The costs of getting a college degree have been rising faster than those of health care, so the need to provide low-cost, quality higher education is more acute than ever. At the same time, in a knowledge economy, getting a higher-education degree is more vital than ever. And thanks to the spread of high-speed wireless technology, high-speed Internet,

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For many years I have considered Wikipedia to be a great sandbox for students to practice information literacy skills.
What does it say? How do you know it is accurate? Who is the source? What do they stand to gain? Are there other perspectives? Who are the stakeholders?

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A new tool in google docs.

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A good read for those interested in OER.

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Starting to build community around open courses...

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"Over 1 million students have already signed up for the initial courses that Coursera’s had posted on its website. There have been some delays – legalities over licensing and copyright, according to the word on the street – in getting these up and running, but starting April 23, there’ll be at least 30 new classes offered via Coursera."

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The end of monopoly for academic publishers?

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The Chronicle was unable to add the link to the TED site in this article so I will add it here. http://ed.ted.com/

Here are other articles in:

Mashable: http://mashable.com/2012/04/25/teds-youtube-video-lesson/

and
The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-digital-education-revolution-contd-meet-ted-eds-new-online-learning-platform/256318/

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"WHERE TEACHERS BUY, SELL AND SHARE ORIGINAL TEACHING RESOURCES "

Not really open but...

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"Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru’s content experts, so you don’t have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself.

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Lesson plan and course resource repository: "Find lesson plans, classroom materials and instructional resources from high-performing teachers. "

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