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Blended Learning: Research Perspectives
Not a whole lot there right now, but Sloan-C (a consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education) has a site dedicated to Blended Learning called, appropriately enough, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. “Sloan-C will be using this web site to collect and share resources for educators and administrators involved with blended and hybrid…
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Publish far afield
A Library Writer’s Blog points to a call for papers for a special issue of the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education: Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education. Submissions must be in English… Technorati Tags: Distance_Education, Libraries
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UPenn Online Books Page
The Centered Librarian points to The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania, a listing of over 25,000 free books on the Web. While the site does appear to be indexed in Google, it might still be worth a personal visit if you’re searching for something. Probably because it only appeared on the site…
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BookSwim – NetFlix for Books
Michael Stephens at Tame the Web points to an upcoming service called BookSwim that will launch the 1st quarter of 2007. Basically they’re going to do the NetFlix thing for books – for a subscription fee (amount unknown), you can enter your name in a queue for one of their 80,000 titles and they’ll ship…
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Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web
Continuing on the vein of their Research Beyond Google page, the Online Education Database has recently posted The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web, which looks like a really good resource. There you will find background on the concept of the invisible web, 9 reasons a web page is invisible, 10 ways to make invisible…