Found an article talking about a nonprofit start up in LA. The founder, Gary Michelson, M.D. formed Twenty Million Minds Foundation to create and provide for the use of a comprehensive, digital, higher education textbook library in an open architecture platform to mitigate students’ expenses and to eventually replace the costly textbooks currently in use.
Now, I have seen other companies like Inkling and Kno who are already creating apps to push digital textbooks.
Every year, a new batch of wide-eyed youngsters flocks to college, fresh from high school glory. Some will arrive with apprehension, while others come in with guns blazing. Regardless of how you approach the university experience, there are a few painfully freshman mistakes that everyone should avoid making.
1. Don’t take 8 a.m. classes: You may think that it’s a good idea, considering that you’ve been spending the past 12 years of your educational career starting the school day at 7 a.m., but you…
Today I had a couple of experiences that set me thinking about my own high school career. First, I subbed in another teacher’s class for one period. It was an AP Government class and the easiest gig ever since the kids had assignments to work on. To break up the monotony of grading I scanned a textbook and some review guides, and I was soon filled with longing and the wish that my teachers in high school challenged me more.
“I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it…” This weekend is one that I have looked forward to for a long time.
Four years ago, almost to the day, my son Scott, and I boarded a plane bound for Cincinnati, Ohio. We were on our way to visit the college that had he had chosen to attend, far from his home in Florida.
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