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Information Today October 20, 2011 |
Blackboard Announces New Open Education Initiatives Blackboard Inc. will now support publishing, sharing, and consumption of open educational resources across its platforms. |
Information Today April 15, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
The Wild West of MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are the subject of many recent headlines. The issues cover everything from the future of higher education to using technology to deliver courses and textbooks on a global scale. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 |
A Custom Fit K-12 educators need to get a better understanding of open content, for their own benefit as well as their students'. |
Information Today October 15, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week Preview For most institutions, Open Access Week is a way to increase the visibility of open access among scientists, researchers, librarians, university faculty members, and students. |
Information Today October 24, 2011 |
Open Access Week 2011 Opens Oct. 24 Coordinated by The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the event provides an opportunity to learn about the benefits of Open Access, share new ideas and strategies, and inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as the norm in scholarly communication. |
Information Today March 4, 2013 Paula J. Hane |
Etextbook Update The etextbook market is in such flux, that it warrants revisiting frequently. This is a review of some recent noteworthy developments and a discussion of a report on student acceptance. |
Information Today February 16, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed The focus on etextbooks continues as even the federal government makes major strides into taking the school textbook into the 21 st century. |
Information Today December 2, 2014 Abby Clobridge |
OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data OpenCon, was the first full conference for students and early-career researchers that focused on the open knowledge trifecta -- open access, open education, and open data. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2008 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Content, Anyone? Free and always available, web-based open source materials are providing educators with a fertile, ever-adaptable supply of instructional resources. |
Searcher September 2002 Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
Information Today |
DynamicBooks to Offer College Open Textbooks The DynamicBooks platform enables instructors to customize and personalize textbooks that are delivered to the instructor's students using an advanced reader and annotation tool that can be used from most computing devices. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
Information Today January 26, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Announces Efforts to `Reinvent' Textbooks In an effort to "reinvent" textbooks, Apple unveiled a suite of tools and resources geared to the K-12 education market on Jan. 19 at New York's Guggenheim Museum. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2007 John K. Waters |
Digital Publishing :: Out of Print Traditional textbook publishers are having to adjust to a changing market, as K-12 educators show a growing interest in digital content. |
Information Today September 23, 2014 Woody Evans |
NISO on Ebooks: Dynamic, Open, and Cheap National Information Standards Organization hosted a webinar on E-books for Education, which explored definitions, content, access, and open access issues affecting the present state and future course of ebooks for education. |
Information Today April 25, 2011 |
Flat World Knowledge Releases 'Make It Your Own' Platform for Textbooks The fully-automated system gives professors greater control over textbook content, and the ability, with one click, to make their modified book available to students free online or in multiple, low-cost digital and print formats. |
D-Lib October 2003 Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2010 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Creative Commons: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century Copyright laws in the U.S. have been around since 1790, but two 20th-century revisions, coupled with the internet's fostering of a read/write culture, have had a significant impact on the use, reuse, and distribution of digital media and content in this century. |
Information Today November 3, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
IT Trends Revealed at EDUCAUSE Unveiled in Indianapolis were the top 10 IT issues of 2016. EDUCAUSE grouped the issues into three themes: Differentiate, Reinvest, and Divest. |
Information Today May 23, 2011 Nancy Herther |
McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets. |
D-Lib December 2000 Carol Ann Hughes |
Information Services for Higher Education: A New Competitive Space For at least the last ten years of my professional life in academic libraries we have seen higher education recognize itself as an important economic sector for our country's continued prosperity, and we have heard repeatedly that the new economy is based on knowledge... |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience. |
Information Today March 21, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field's New Statistics Textbook/Ebook Sussex University's Andy Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods. |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
A Revolution on Hold In their push toward using digital content in the classroom, many schools are stuck in second gear until basic changes to both infrastructure and entrenched habits are made. But even as school districts grapple with making those changes, policymakers have begun to move forward. |
Information Today March 4, 2010 Barbara Quint |
DynamicBooks Opens Etextbooks for Faculty Customization Using the software, faculty will be able to edit and delete text and add content, including multimedia and web links. Other publishers besides Macmillan have launched their own curricular tools. |
D-Lib June 2006 |
D-Lib -- In Brief The Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment Project... The Credibility Commons... In the News... etc. |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today April 15, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Expands InfoTrac College Edition In a move designed to provide better information resources for students, Thomson Corp. has expanded the online information available to purchasers of textbooks from Thomson publishers. |
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage. |
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever. |
T.H.E. Journal March 25, 2010 Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 |
In Brief Access to Learning Award... A data management infrastructure for research activities in the life sciences... Examining techniques and implementations for automated metadata extraction... etc. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2010 Nathan Alderman |
College Libraries Saying Buh-Bye to Books? Electronic texts replace dusty tomes at more universities. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Peter E. Williams |
Will a Digital Textbook Replace Me, the Teacher? A number of excellent digital textbooks are beginning to surface, delivering information in an interesting and interactive manner to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. But, where does that leave educators? |
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Douglas MacMillan |
Inkling Publishes Textbooks for iPads With his San Francisco startup, Matt MacInnis is making textbooks iPad-friendly - and teaching them tricks that can't be done in print. |
Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 David Kushner |
Uncommon Law An interview with Lawrence Lessig, founder and chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that lets copyright holders, from musicians to engineers, grant flexible use of their work on his plans to launch the Science Commons with the hopes of expanding into the world of research. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 Anthony Paustian |
Des Moines Area Community College Utilizes Handhelds for On-the-Go Education As students come to expect more options and greater flexibility in the delivery of course content, schools and colleges need to respond. |
Information Today August 24, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Cengage Learning Rents Textbooks, Re-Brands iChapters.com Net newbies such as BookRenter.com and Chegg offer used textbooks for rental over their websites. |
Information Today June 16, 2011 |
YouTube Adds Creative Commons Attribution License YouTube added the Creative Commons Attribution license as a licensing option for users. |
Information Today June 3, 2002 Wallys W. Conhaim |
Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain Creative Commons is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current copyright system. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Geoffrey Fletcher |
The Importance of Delivering Classroom Content Via Technology The idea of using technology to deliver content historically has been met with a cool, if not frigid, response from educators. Why? For some answers, we can look to Texas, a leader in this area -- at least from the policy perspective. |
Information Today January 2, 2014 |
Springer Journals Get New Creative Commons License Beginning Feb. 3, 2014, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license will apply to journals from BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen, which are all part of Springer Science+Business Media. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 |
On The Web Student performance enhancement and college prep service provider aims to make college a reality for every student... Web site offers a place for students to exchange their old textbooks for ones that they currently need... Teaching children about preventing injuries in the home... etc. |
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Tim Gray |
Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search Yahoo Creative Commons will help developers and site owners find content published by authors willing to share or reuse it. |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2012 Evan Niu |
Apple Just Revolutionized Education Apple unveils digital textbooks for the iPad, which will change education forever. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2012 Rebecca Lipman |
Publishing Stocks: Will Apple Lead the Textbook Digital Revolution? How do you think Apple's plan will affect the future of these companies? |
Information Today September 3, 2015 |
Gale Announces Academic Library Survey Results The survey on academic libraries shows that closer collaboration between librarians and faculty members is necessary for improved communication between the two groups. |
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
T.H.E. Journal December 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Federal Grant Aims To Make Open Content Texts More Accessible With the help of a $100,000 supplemental grant from the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education, Bookshare will begin to make open content textbooks accessible to readers with print disabilities. |