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    Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World
    Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World
    Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World
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    Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World

    By Tom Vander Ark and Bob Wise

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    A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning

    In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools."

    • Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning
    • Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools"
    • Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateSep 20, 2011
    ISBN9781118115879
    Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World
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    Tom Vander Ark

    Tom Vander Ark is an advocate for innovations in learning and the power of place. As CEO of Getting Smart, he advises school districts and networks, education foundations and funders, and impact organizations on the path forward. A prolific writer and speaker, Tom is the author of Getting Smart, Smart Cities That Work for Everyone, Smart Parents, and Better Together and has published thousands of articles as well as coauthoring more than 50 books and white papers. He writes regularly on GettingSmart.com and LinkedIn and contributes to Forbes.

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