“Is the Internet changing the way we learn or simply adapting the same principles to a different learning environment?”
Curated by
Paul Clark
International Baccalaureate Blogs... The future of the Book - sharing the experience. 
International Baccalaureate Blogs... (edited with a few mentions and updates on Jan 30, 2012) 
A year ago, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnston's big idea: the first interactive marine science textbook. 
Libraries say demand for digital lending has soared since Christmas, with 1,000 ebooks a month being borrowed with the growing popularity of Kindles, EReaders, IPads and Smart phones. 
25 famous universities offering free courses for Online learners on variety of subjects medical sciences, engineering and business management. 
The web is bulging with a plethora of free, online e-learning resources ready to pair you up with the greatest thinkers of our time, get you a front row seat in lectures from the world's best universities, teach you how to create your own code, or... |
Excellent tips on e-learning design using different approaches to developing engaging content.
Apple, Pearson and Macmillan are fighting tooth and nail to bow down to pressure to settle their price fixing lawsuit raised by the EU and US Justice... 
E-book sales doubled in September, to $80.3 million, at the publishers that report results to the AAP. Sales in the print segments had a mixed performance.
What makes these relatively bland figures more fascinating are the comments below. 
Ewan Morrison tracks the self-epublishing euphoria of the last five months and argues that we're heading for a painful comedown...
This fascinating article postulates the theory that the development of epublishing may mirror the stages of the dot-com bubble and crash. He suggests that the process will follow the 7 stages Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis. 
Although price is likely to be a barrier, the software will let students watch videos and take notes inside the virtual books... 
Introducing an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive. A textbook created with iBooks Author and brought to life by iPad. 
Jonathan Franzen has launched a passionate defence of the printed book, Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. 
Changchun American International School Virtual Worlds - What do we do? Why does it work? How can you learn to do it too? 
The search for classroom content is easier with a tweet or two... 
Scientists have begun to note that the Internet has started to rewire our minds.Read on …... |
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