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Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of the Deal
The New York Time of Monday 11.10.17 reported that Amazon.com, originally the biggest online bookstore, now the biggest online shopping center for many products including bound and digital books, is rewriting the rules for book publishing. With Amazon's help, book authors can bypass publishers and book agents to create their manuscript which Amazon will then publish at least as a digital copy. But Amazon also offers book cover creation and other amenities usually offered by in-print bound-book publishers. For the reader's information, some much smaller web sites exist as of the end of October 2011 which let the author write their book online at their web site. Then the web site operators walk the author through the rest of the web publishing, and if desired the bound-book publishing process online as well.
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BBC: South Korea digitizing its entire curriculum
BBC News online of Tuesday 11.10.18 reported that South Korea has begun a project to digitize its entire public school curriculum. "South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitizing its entire curriculum." SK's Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Ju-Ho Lee, said that his dept. is preparing a promotion strategy for (called) "Smart Education", focusing on customised learning and teaching. The project, launched during the summer (of 2011), will involve wireless networks (put) in all schools to allow students to learn "whenever and wherever", as well as an education information system that can run in a variety of devices including PCs, laptops, tablets and internet-connected TVs." JGW: the BBC article and S.Korean comments are just about the computer hardware and networking access (wired and wireless access) to the digitized textbooks and other learning materials. There is nothing saying whether or not just having digitized educational materials available online auto-magically creates effective educational experiences for all readers of it.
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Authoring with the MyUdutu Web Site
The MyUdutu web site requires users to register to use it. MyUdutu offers free and fee-based course content authoring tools online. (I, the PI, assumes:) The would-be author of instructional content registers at and uses their web-site to prepare materials, which they then can download to use as they are able on the web-site(s) of the author's or course publishing institution's choice.
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Authoring the ISU Way
The Idaho State University (ISU) College of Education explains their ADDIE instructional systems design method (ISD) for distance learning course content authoring and deployment here.
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Authoring with Adobe's Authorware
Adobe's Authorware, version 7 as of the end of 2009, helps computer naive instructors or course content authors create multimedia instructional materials, lessons, exercises, and tests in both a linear (straight through) sequence and as a "branching" multiple paths through the same material. Multiple paths also allows for the addition of on-demand tutorial "tangents" on a given topic for, say, special or exceptional learners.
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Authoring with Moodle v1.x
IF YOU ARE A MOODLE V1.9 (or earlier version) CONTENT AUTHOR, PLEASE CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON THIS WEB SITE AND POST ARTICLES ABOUT YOUR AUTHORING EXPERIENCES. Moodle is a free open source course content management and delivery system. As of the end of 2009 the latest version was v1.9. Version 2.0 is in-development and due to be deployed sometime in 2010. For feature comparisons and documentation, see the http://www.moodle.org web-site.
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The "Leitner 5 deck" Flash Card System
This site explains in one web page the "Leitner 5 deck" Flash Card system, a system as of Fall 2010 rarely implemented on computer server systems of college or high-school language textbook publishers. This system is implemented in a relatively primitive and narrow way in the open source "Pauker" Flash Card system available at www.SourceForge.net. This PI has a not yet public design and coding project to improve upon the "Pauker" code in various ways.
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User Interface Design for Web 2.0 Web Sites
A new field is emerging for web site designers. Web site designers primarily concern themselves with the look and "feel" of the web site, where "feel" includes the ease of navigating through the web site. With "Web 2.0+", web sites made with Content Management Systems (CMSes), it is necessary to have a more technically complex set of method, a deeper and more complex technical understanding of "how the web site works", and a wider and deeper understanding of the possible end user experiences with the web site and it's content in order to make a more efficient and effective web site for the non-technical end user to use. This web site presents, let us call them "first generation", tutorials that help train the would-be web 2.0 web site designer.
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NYT: Shorter EBooks for Smaller Devices
The New York Times of 11.02.12 reported that some digital book (eBook) publishers are creating shorter, smaller eBooks (in number of pages) that can be read more quickly on eReader devices, tablets and smart phones.
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The Atavist eBook publishing site
This is the Atavist.net web site mentioned in the New York Times article of 11.02.12 in the business section. Atavist creates smaller eBooks with less pages that can be more quickly and easily read. Whether that dumbs down readers using eReader tablets and smart phones to read digital books remains to be seen. The trend, if it continues, might encourage more impulse buying of the smaller, shorter and cheaper digital eBooks.
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DM: Making your eBook, an authors' (simple) guide
Disc Makers (DM), long time distributors of CD and DVD copying and printing machines, has this short, simple guide to making your own eBook. Publication would be to CD or DVD and/or to the Internet as well.
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LI: S. Korea to convert all textbooks to ebooks
LinkedIn reported 11.07.03 that South Korea plans to convert all textbooks to digital eBooks. They will replace school backpacks with tablet computers containing the eBooks by 2015.
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CBS: Self-Publishing: mostly novels now, soon more educational materials?
The USA CBS Television News Service (CBSNews.com) on Sunday 12.12.09 presented a story titled "Authors Exercise Their (Right) to Self-Publish" eBooks. Of the authors cited, one produced a short children's eBook and another a novel both of which eventually made millions of dollars for the authors. One primary, if not yet exclusive, vendor of these eBooks was Amazon.com. The sale price of these shorter "simpler" eBooks might be as low as $0.99 or $1.99. But times a million readers... Self-publishing on the Internet has been going on at a small scale for several years, since about 2008 or 2010. The popularity in the late 2000s of having one's own personal "blog" web site was possibly a predecessor development. But "personal web sites" or blog sites do not necessarily make the owner-operator any money. Nevertheless as more Internet users -- and potential book authors -- understand the ease of authoring and the opportunities they have to web-publish, a few small eBook authoring and web-publishing "houses" have appeared "on the Internet" to provide more convenient and efficient services to these authors. But this trend has yet to acknowledge the possibility -- and the need -- for educators and trainers to self-author and self web-publish training and educational materials! Experienced educators and trainers know that their self-published material can augment or supplement established textbooks, workbooks, training manuals and other learning materials that are required in or recommended for the curriculum of a vocational institution, or a school district or college that serves a given city, state, province or country. Why not at least have those supplements available on the Internet? Having WLTRes content contributors describe how those processes are happening now and how they might happen more efficiently and effectively in the future is one of the objectives of this WLTRes web site.
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Edutopia: Use Arts (to) Integrate Common Core Curricula (12.11.30)
November 30, 2012, Edutopia.com web-published this article promoting the integration of the USA Common Core curriculum (CCSS: Common Core Student Standards) through the use of art projects. With respect to distance learning, this tactic, if effective, suggests some hard problems and very interesting challenges for the Learning Management Systems technical designers and extenders as well as for learning content authors.
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NYT: Little Signs of an E-Book Price War (12.12.23)
The Sunday New York Times of December 23, 2012 (12.12.23), surveyed an implied possible collusion of price fixing among the major commercial providers of eBooks and eBook reader devices.
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