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Information Today January 14, 2016 |
Gale Offers Libraries Interactive Science Products for Students Gale launched three new science products for academic and school libraries that are designed to help students understand science beyond simply reading their textbooks. |
Information Today June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
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. |
Information Today July 19, 2012 Marydee Ojala |
Gale Gives More Insights Into Business Following a successful launch in September 2011 of Business Insights: Global, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, introduced Business Insights: Essentials on July 11, 2012. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 Becky A. Snyder |
Seeking Value on the Internet With so many free Web sites available, is there still value in purchasing a subscription to a curriculum or reference Web site? |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
Gale Gives Students Easier Access to Primary Sources; Starts Arabic Digitization Project Gale will integrate Gale Artemis: Primary Sources into Cengage Learning's MindTap elearning platform, which will bring library content directly into students' learning paths. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Mona Westhaver |
Learning to Learn: The Best Strategy for Overall Student Achievement State and local funding for schools is decreasing. Learning to learn -- helping students develop thinking skills, learning skills and, most importantly, a passion for learning -- is the solution that will have the most long-term and widespread impact. |
Information Today June 4, 2012 |
Gale Announces Classroom in Context Since CLiC can be used in the classroom, students can follow along and conduct research as they go, which also helps librarians accelerate usage of library products. |
Information Today May 2, 2011 |
Gale Launches Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean A new product category for libraries, Gale World Scholar marks the first time any publisher is combining historical and contemporary reference and archival materials with current events in a contextual manner. |
Information Today May 7, 2007 |
Thomson Gale Launches New Social Issues Site Thomson Gale has introduced a new reference Web site called WiseTo Social Issues, a site dedicated to comprehensively exploring today's hottest and most divisive topics. |
Information Today August 2000 |
Gale Group Launches History Resource Center Gale Group has announced the release of the History Resource Cente. The subscription service, designed primarily for libraries, schools, and universities, is the first product to integrate history's most important documents within a single interface |
Information Today December 8, 2011 |
Gale's Online Ebook Platform Gets a Facelift After extensive user analysis and market feedback, the interface has been overhauled with improved navigation and organization, and a vibrant and engaging display to draw in students, researchers, professionals, and general readers. |
Information Today May 27, 2010 |
Knovel Adds Interactive Problem Sets to Popular Engineering Textbook Working closely with publisher Cengage Learning, Knovel has added value to the core text by presenting a unique set of problems and solutions in each chapter. |
Information Today April 7, 2008 Michael LoPresti |
Gale Users to Hear ReadSpeaker, Loudly and Clearly Later this month, when Gale incorporates ReadSpeaker to provide text-to-speech capabilities in its online databases, Gale users will be able to have content read aloud to them in addition to being able to read it. |
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Richard Schmalensee |
Where's The "B" In B-Schools? Many business schools are seeking to make research and teaching more valuable to practicing managers. This is easier said than done. |
D-Lib October 2003 Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
Information Today May 14, 2015 |
Gale Helps Middle School Students With Information Literacy Gale launched Research In Context, an online, multimedia (images, audio, video, and primary sources, etc.) research tool for middle school students. |
Information Today October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
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? |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Joshua D. Baron & Mercedes M. McKay |
Designing and Delivering an Online Course for K-12 Educators The design and delivery of a distance education course are complex undertakings. This is partly because the development process involves many interrelated elements that must work in unison to form a single system for learning... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2002 Jacqueline Keane |
Teacher vs. Computer. Where Educators Stand in the Technology Revolution Instructional technology and the World Wide Web offer powerful teaching resources that provide educators with a limitless wealth of information and shared professional practices. |
Information Today April 22, 2014 |
Alexander Street Press Introduces Database of Business Ebooks The new database makes 500 business etextbooks and reference materials available without digital rights restrictions to worldwide academic, public, and school libraries. |
CRM May 2014 Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 Douglas Kellner |
The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers The integration of technology in classrooms has obligated teachers to develop new teaching strategies to enhance learning across the curriculum. |
Searcher May 2006 Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 4, 2005 James Heskett |
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Business schools focus more on academic rigor than preparing students for future professional success. It may be time to change this focus. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 25, 2005 Jim Heskett |
Summing Up: Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Many people suggest ideas on how to increase the relevance of business schools. But in the current academic context the lingering the question is, can those ideas be implemented? |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 11, 2005 |
Readers Respond: How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Don't you think that part of the problem is in how business schools are selecting their students?... I was shocked recently to discover what appears to be a rampant disconnect among key professors... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2003 Sylvia Charp |
Engaging the Tech-Savvy Generation It's the job of every educator to use all technological resources available to keep students engaged in the classroom. But a true tech-savvy educator is continually learning from his or her students. |
Information Today October 20, 2015 |
EBSCO Introduces Resource for College and Career Readiness EBSCO Information Services launched the PrepSTEP online learning platform to help students build the skills they need for college and career readiness. |
Information Today August 30, 2012 |
New Resource -- Gale Genealogy Connect Focusing on the "how to" of genealogical research, this new resource serves as a complement to popular fact, date, and people-based genealogy resources already on the market. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Mari Liles |
Interactive Whiteboard System Drives Increased Achievement at Texas School for the Deaf The electronic whiteboard system has made a huge difference in how teachers teach and how motivated students have become about learning. |
Searcher August 2002 Carol Tenopir |
Educating Tomorrow's Information Professionals Today It is a great time to enter the information professions, but one that poses challenges for LIS schools and employers, as a new generation of information professionals comes on the scene and prepares to tackle jobs in a variety of environments. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 Jacquelyn Barker Tulloch |
Sophisticated Technology Offers Higher Education Options Ironically, the use of traditional terminology associated with distance learning is diminishing at a time when the use of technology is gaining ground. Meanwhile, the lines are blurring between distance education and traditional classroom learning... |
T.H.E. Journal August 2001 Douglas R. Knox |
Inspiration's Version 6 Inspiration, a cross-platform hybrid CD software program, is an exciting and powerful visual learning mind tool. Inspiration's visual learning techniques help students clarify thinking, reinforce understanding, integrate new knowledge and relationships, and identify misconceptions... |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Judy A. Serwatka |
Improving Student Performance in Distance Learning Courses This article concentrates on the problems encountered and the solutions developed while teaching two college networking courses in the distance learning format... |
T.H.E. Journal January 1, 2000 |
Futureperspective - a Vision of Education for the 21st Century The creation and delivery of courses over the Web will be the driving force for educational change in the 21st century. |
Information Today July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
Information Today November 18, 2014 |
Gale Encourages Researchers to Work With Its Data Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced that it would make content from its Gale Digital Collections available to academic researchers so they can use it for data mining and textual analysis |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
Matematicas by EducationCity.com EducationCity.com has launched Matematicas, the Spanish-language version of its e-learning resource for math, made especially for students whose primary language is Spanish. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
Information Today October 4, 2010 |
Gale Announces Biography in Context Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced Biography in Context, a new online resource developed to meet the needs of today's internet-savvy researchers. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 |
National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 Gaylord & Tolliver |
Sharing E-Learning Services: Former Rivals Improve Education While Stretching Dollars Technology makes strange bedfellows. Archrivals on the football field and steely competitors for Ohio's best students, we at The University of Akron and Kent State University are joining forces to share an e-learning infrastructure. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Peg Pankowski |
Faculty Training for Online Teaching Experts agree that faculty need training to teach online, yet a survey of faculty who teach undergraduate mathematics courses online indicates that most faculty at two-year colleges are still not receiving adequate training. |