Crimea 2012 International Conference | June 2-10, 2012 Crimea Ukraine

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19th International Conference “Crimea 2012” “Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business” “Crimea 2012” is a world professional forum for leadership and staff of libraries, publishing houses, book trade business, museums, archives, information centers, universities, colleges, computer and Internet companies, for business, law, scientific, cultural and educational organizations.

The Conference is held under the auspices of IFLA Topic of 2012: “Libraries of digital era: new paradigm and new role in social development”

 

The Conference program will be built around Worldwide Information Infrastructure, Interlibrary Cooperation, International Cooperation Projects – National Libraries and National Information Resources – Development and Preservation of Library Collections. Cooperation of Libraries, Publishers and Book Market. – Online Technologies, CD-ROM, Electronic Publications and the Internet in Libraries – Digital Libraries and Digital Resources, E-learning…

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Project MUSE

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Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995 the MUSE journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE’s scholarly journal content…

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Open Repositories 2012

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Open Repositories 2012 takes place in Edinburgh from, 9th-13th July 2012.

The theme and title of the 2012 conference – Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out – reflects the current move towards open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems and data delivery infrastructures.

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The 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference

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The 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference is all about New Trends in Library Science and  will consider, but not be limited to, methodologies for building the evidence base in library and information services (LIS), Balanced Scorecard tools in libraries, Copyright and licensing, Data mining,

Digital preservation, Digitization

Distance learning and the role of the library

E-Books…

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Educators’ marketplace…

TeachersPayTeachers® is an online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original downloadable educational materials, hard goods and used educational resources.  TpT’s mission is to make teachers lives easier by bringing together those who create curricula with those who are seeking fresh new approaches in the classroom.

CK-12 Foundation

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. As a leading member of the OER movement, CK-12

is using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the “FlexBook.” With these free, common core aligned and NSES aligned digital textbooks, CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational STEM content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

Maths Games from Mangahigh

Mangahigh is a comprehensive and powerful maths teaching resource designed for use in a school context offering full coverage of the UK National Curriculum with more than 400 different challenges ranging from addition to quadratic factorisation.   As students work best when they work at the edge of their abilities, Mangahigh tempts students with easy tasks and then builds confidence for harder, more conceptual work.

ePals: Where Learners connect…

ePals is a platform designed to promote meaningful teaching and learning, showing teachers and students how to use technology strategically to promote the fundamental learning principles essential for academic achievement. This involves creating a safe and secure content-rich environment that challenges students and educators to research smartly, collaborate with other learners of all ages, think critically, problem-solve, and communicate their learning using various web 2.0 tools. It is this way that technology serves deep learning and is not simply an add-on in the classroom.

Udemy, the Academy for you!!

Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online.

Their goal is to  democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.  Just as blogging democratized the publishing industry (enabling anyone to instantly become a journalist), Udemy seeks to dramatically change education by empowering millions of experts around the world to teach & share what they know.  They’ve built an incredible platform that makes it easy for anyone to build an online course. Instructors can use video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes to quickly build a course and share their expertise.

Students can take courses, most of which absolutely free, across a great breadth of categories, including: business & entrepreneurship, academics, the arts, health & fitness, language, music, technology, games, and more.

Build with Gooru!!

Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides covering 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources including digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more allvetted and organized by teachers or Gooru’s content experts.
Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience and best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts…