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You’d be forgiving for thinking your Amazon Kindle is just a tiny slate only fit for reading. That’s what it’s designed for, sure, but your humble e-reader has some hard-to-find, little-known tricks up its sleeve. Here are the best Kindle …

WebRoom is a free service for hosting online meetings. WebRoom doesn’t require you to download any software and you don’t need to register in order to use it. To launch a meeting on WebRoom you simply enter your name and …

Creative Commons (CC) licenses give people “a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work” (Creative Commons). Instead of requiring each person wanting to use, share or adapt the creative work to ask permission, a CC license …

This is a short post (6 page PDF) with one-paragraph descriptions of innovations at open universities around the world. Together, the set provides others with a sort of menu of options they can follow. Most usefully, each one has a …

Checker Plus for Gmail is a good Chrome extension you can use with both Gmail and Inbox. It allows you to access, read and delete your emails without having to open Gmail or Inbox. It also supports multiple Gmail and …

Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, and O’Brien, his co-author, have spent the last three years transforming their classic textbook into a product that can only be described as “education software.” Hubbard and O’Brien worked with an editor for a …

Research has shown that “one-to-one” programs, meaning one student one computer, implemented the right way, increase student learning in subjects like writing, math and science.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/18/536875865/15-years-later-how-did-it-go-with-maines-school-laptop-program…

Apple describes iOS 11 as “a giant leap for iPhones but a monumental leap for iPads.” Whether you agree or not, there are a number of fantastic new features available for iOS devices when iOS 11 is released.

https://jonathanwylie.com/2017/08/18/11-ios-11-features-for-ipad-educators/…

The article points to the larger problem of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge of copyright as it pertains to the Internet.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/09/copyright-lessons-for-students-and.html…

Take Hyperdocs to the next level by creating hypernotes with MS Office 365 or OneNote and ensure that students have access to the information they need.

https://www.tcea.org/blog/hypernotes/…

In the interview, you can hear him discuss why he has devoted his life to educating not only his paying students, but also nearly anyone who asks him a question. He also talks about his own education and further elucidates …

An inside look into how AI is disrupting concepts of learning.

https://www.cio.com/article/3224891/artificial-intelligence/how-artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-learning.html…

Here is an updated list of the best free online courses of all time.  Now there are over 8,000+ massive open online courses from around 750 universities worldwide. This can be daunting to the millions of learners around the world …