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109 Ideas for Virtual Learning: How Open Content Will Help Close the Digital Divide.


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109 ideas for virtual learning; how open content will help close the digital divide.

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 Education

2006

331 pages

$39.95

Paperback

Digital learning series; 3

LB1044

Breck has been a teacher and a web content developer and is a passionate advocate of online learning. This collection of ideas urges educators and planners to throw out some preconceptions--uncomfortable as that might be--and embrace the changes and the startling star·tle  
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1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start.

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 potential of the internet. The ideas are expressed in brief essays in which Breck incorporates her own experiences and addresses the quandaries educators face with regard to search enginers, technology vs. humans as teachers, the usefulness of books, the definition of knowledge, open content, network, and laptops in schools, among other topics. Included in the appendix are 205 websites mentioned in the book.

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