Spotlight
Do you have lingering questions about the instructional validity of incorporating free educational materials in your online courses? Michael Cottam, Rio Salado College's associate dean over instructional design and new program development, helps shed some light on how open education resources may be better evaluated in the future so that course developers can leverage open resources more effectively. MoreMoving course evaluations online saves schools money, time--even trees. But it doesn't mean more students will complete the surveys. Here's how to bump up those response rates. More
News & Product Updates
Seven out of 10 undergraduate students attending the University of California, Riverside don't buy textbooks, preferring to rent them, rely on instructor-provided materials, or go without. MoreCourseSmart has released a new app that allows users access to e-textbooks from mobile devices including the Kindle Fire, iPad, and Android devices. MoreAcer has unveiled an ultra portable DLP projector that displays HD and 3D images in small, low light venues without the aid of a bulb. MoreDesire2Learn has struck a deal to make digital course materials from CourseSmart available to its learning management system customers as a new addition to its Partner Network. MoreAmerican Public University System (APUS) and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) will dole out $25,000 to an entrepreneur who creates a business plan that best improves higher education e-learning. MorePearson has launched a new version of CourseConnect, its customizable online course library. MoreSciencia.org, a social network that publishes links to breaking science news contributed by its 64,000 international users, has added economics and financial science sections to its Web site. More
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