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Open eBooks is an app containing thousands of popular and award-winning titles that are free for children from in-need households. These eBooks can be read without checkouts or holds.

http://www.thepaperlesstrail.com/2016/02/27/openebooks-net-a-great-resource/…

A podcast explaining all the new features of Moodle 3.4.

https://www.moodlenews.com/2017/lwmn017-everything-users-developers-and-first-time-moodlers-need-to-know-about-moodle-3-4-week-of-november-20th-2017/…

Captioning an image involves generating a human readable textual description given an image, such as a photograph. In this post, you will discover how deep neural network models can be used to automatically generate descriptions for images, such as photographs.…

A large majority of Canadian universities and colleges are moving aggressively into blended and hybrid learning and most Canadian post-secondary institutions consider online learning very or extremely important for their future.

https://www.tonybates.ca/2017/11/11/why-does-canada-have-so-much-online-learning/…

Crafting a strong and well-balanced social media policy requires considerable time and effort. The policy must be flexible enough to accommodate new tech trends—such as anonymous messaging apps and livestreaming—yet thorough and specific enough to address a multitude of potentially …

Artificial intelligence can aid educators in providing support to individual students in large classes.

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2017/11/ai-boosts-personalized-learning-higher-education…

Blockchain is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated technologies of our time. Much like the early internet, experienced technologists foresee blockchain as a vehicle to drive society forward. In effect, we can fundamentally disrupt industries core to our economies …

Firefox has a new version. It’s now a multi-process browser with a new design, gaining speed but leaving traditional Firefox extensions behind.  If you’ve switched to Google Chrome, you might want to give Firefox another chance. But, if you’re already …

Researchers at Princeton University have uncovered one of the biggest security flaws on the internet.

http://www.alphr.com/security/1007743/more-than-400-of-the-most-popular-sites-are-logging-everything-you-type…

The inventor of the world wide web remains an optimist but sees a ‘nasty wind’ blowing amid concerns over advertising, net neutrality and fake news.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality…

About 300 seven-year-old children from 12 Slovenian schools took part in the research which lasted for 7 months. Accessibility of applications on the basis of cross-curricular modules was examined with regard to learning and ergonomics.

https://ukedchat.com/2017/11/09/tablet-maths/…