Campus Technology: E-Textbook Pilot Grows to 25 Schools Even as U Minn Opts Out

Online and Digital Learning on Today's College Campus

9/6/2012

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E-Textbook Pilot Grows to 25 Schools Even as U Minn Opts Out
An e-textbook pilot run at five institutions after being tested out at Indiana University will be growing this fall. Twenty-one additional colleges and universities of multiple sizes and formats will be introducing the use of digital content in classes in a series of pilot efforts being conducted by Educause and Internet2, while one of the original five pilot campuses opted to drop out owing to concerns over accessibility.
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Rewriting the Journal
With faculty balking at the high price of traditional academic journals, can other digital publishing options get traction?
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Developers: Share code and manage your project for free

In the real world, software development is a team sport – not an individual one. JazzHub, from IBM, is a cloud-based team collaboration platform which allows you to share code with classmates across the room or across the globe and manage your project from beginning to end. Get started by taking the JazzHub tour!

E-Learning News

Holy Apostles To Offer Massive Open Online Courses
Holy Apostles College and Seminary will begin to offer massive online open course programming through a partnership with Edvance360 and the Catholic Distance Learning Network involving two certification programs for the fall 2012 semester.
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Hult Business Students Get Involved in LMS Change
Business students act as consultants, evaluating platforms and providing recommendations to their school's administration.
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Georgia College Produces Student-Written E-Textbook
Nine graduate students in an Advanced Technology for Teachers course at Georgia College have published their own e-textbook, Using Technology in Education, through Apple's iBookstore.
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Arizona Community Colleges To Expand LMS Deployment
A consortium of community colleges in Arizona has decided to expand deployment of a new learning management system to eight more of its schools in the fall semester, following the implementation at one of its colleges.
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Academia.edu Adds Analytics Dashboard
Academic researchers can now see who is accessing their research and how it is being referenced.
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California State University Prepares To Launch Online Program
The second-largest university system in the United States, California State University, is launching a new, fully online program called Cal State Online, which will offer a selection of undergraduate degree completion and professional master's degree programs.
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Education Leaders See MOOCs, Distance Learning as the Future of Higher Ed
If you were to gather together a thousand academics, researchers, university IT and instructional technology leaders, institutional librarians, technology and media company executives, authors, journalists, futurists, association presidents, and other interested people and ask them to consider the possible impact of the Internet on higher education, the outlook you'd get would closely resemble the rich patchwork of perspective offered in a recent report from Elon University's School of Communications, as part of its "Imagining the Internet" project. Most of them would say there's a lot of change coming.
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Ivy Tech CC To Launch Virtual Support Center To Improve Enrollment, Retention
Indiana's Ivy Tech Community College will launch a virtual student success center in an effort to improve enrollment, retention, and graduation rates.
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Khan Academy Intros Free Programming Lessons
The Khan Academy has introduced a new computer science platform that teaches users the basics of programming by allowing them to manipulate code and see the effects of their changes side by side.
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MIT Media Lab To Host Technology in the Classroom Town Hall
The MIT Media Lab will hold a Technology in the Classroom Town Hall meeting on Thursday, September 13 at 3:00 pm ET.
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ProQuest Launches Social Network for Library Schools
Librarians and library students can now connect with each other and access free career and education resources through a new social network designed for the library sciences.
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Virtual Classroom Service Now Available for Free
The online teaching and learning platform WizIQ is offering a free one-year membership for K-12 and higher education teachers and their students at qualifying institutions.
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