Start-Up Aspires to Make the World 'One Big Study Group'

Retrieved from Wired Campus on September 12, 2010 By Marc Parry

Thousands of students are enrolling in gigantic open online courses.
Would students go for vast open online study groups, too?

OpenStudy, a start-up company spun off by Georgia Tech and Emory University, is betting the answer to that question is yes. Its Web site is the latest effort to create a social platform for independent learners who want to help each other study the huge trove of educational materials published free online by universities like MIT.

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Latest Attempt to Hawk E-Textbooks: Make Them Easier for Professors to Use

Retrieved from [Wired Campus] on July 18, 2010

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By Jeff Young

It has been hard to get most professors excited about e-textbooks, but publishers continue to try new ways to sell them on the format. The latest strategy seems to make the e-textbooks even easier for professors to use, by integrating them more tightly into the course-management systems they are already familiar with.

Today Blackboard announced deals with a major textbook publisher— McGraw Hill—and two college bookstore chains—Barnes & Noble College Booksellers and Follett Higher Education Group—to sell textbooks through the tech company's course-management system and to tie online assignments from the e-texts directly into existing online gradebooks.

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Cambridge to study computer games

Retrieved from [BBC] on 11/02/2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8500657.stm

Computer games and comics are to be analysed alongside the time-honoured classics of children's literature at a new Cambridge University centre.

The ideas children pick up from books as well as other sources will be studied at the university's new centre for the study of children's literature.

Academics argue that books, films and other media, reach children in a way that their teachers and parents cannot.

The centre will be part of the University's Faculty of Education.

The faculty's current teaching programme covers material including ABC books, folk and fairytales, as well as classics like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

'Trash is popular'

The new centre is being expanded to cover the representation of young people in films and video games, along with children's comics.

On the literature side, modern best-sellers like Harry Potter and the Twilight Series of vampire books will be covered as well as classics such as Alice in Wonderland and Little House on the Prairie.

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Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics

The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever [You Tube]

No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right.
That is I think it's not too bad.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always know sometimes think it's me, but you know I know and it's a dream.
I think I know of thee, ah yes, but it's all wrong.
That is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.