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Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:43 PM EDT (chronicle.com)
Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No less important, it is also almost certain to be the last one.
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company
Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:13 AM EDT (Fast Company)
Is a college education really like a string quartet? Back in 1966, that was the assertion of economists William Bowen, later president of Princeton, and William Baumol. In a seminal study, Bowen and Baumol used the analogy to show why universities can't easily improve efficiency.
Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs
Seeded on Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:15 PM EDT (westga.edu)
Results of the study found that online students were significantly more likely to dropout than campus based students. Age was found to have a significant unique affect on dropout in both programs with older students more likely to dropout.
Views: The Kindle Factor - Inside Higher Ed
Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:19 PM EDT (Inside Higher Ed)
Recent announcements of a series of new experiments with Amazon's Kindle reader have prompted much discussion about how it can be used to help students learn and, perhaps, save money at the same time.
Wired Campus: Online Educators Won't Have to Spy on Students Under New Federal Rules - Chronicle.com
Seeded on Thu Jun 4, 2009 6:38 AM EDT (chronicle.com)
Distance educators won't have to become FBI-style investigators, scanning fingerprints and installing cameras in the apartments of online students to ensure that people are who they say they are.
News: The Distance Ed Tipping Point - Inside Higher Ed
Seeded on Wed May 27, 2009 9:00 PM EDT (Inside Higher Ed)
AUSTIN, TEX. -- As colleges moved into distance education, many questions were raised about how they could serve this new group of students. And colleges responded, with new ideas about online learning resources, academic advising online and so forth.
What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers' Decline - Chronicle.com
Seeded on Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:47 PM EDT (chronicle.com)
Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear. Both industries are in the business of creating and communicating information. Paradoxically, both are threatened by the way technology has made that easier than ever before.
Wired Campus: Students Stop Surfing After Being Shown How In-Class Laptop Use Lowers Test Scores - Chronicle.com
Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:34 PM EDT (chronicle.com)
Professors increasingly frustrated by students who use laptops for non-class activities—like updating their Facebook pages—may be heartened by news from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Latest Facebook Furor: College Logos :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Seeded on Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:37 AM EST (Inside Higher Ed)
Facebook's new Terms of Service agreement indefinitely extends the company's rights to material posted by users, prompting some to question whether it's wise for colleges to place official logos on the popular social networking site.
Blackboard, 9.0 :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:57 AM EST (Inside Higher Ed)
Blackboard Inc., the giant among course management system (CMS) providers, today unveils Release 9.0 of Blackboard Learn.
Editorial: Michigan achieves e-learning success - Grand Rapids Opinion - The Grand Rapids Press Online - Michigan Newspaper - MLive.com
Seeded on Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:58 AM EST (News Impact - MLive.com)
Virtual education in Michigan is generating some big bandwidth buzz nationally. The state has the country's second-best online education program, according to the first-ever national survey of online learning policies and practices.
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies - ReadWriteWeb
Seeded on Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:25 PM EST (Read/WriteWeb)
In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
Pew Research Center: Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source
Seeded on Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:05 AM EST (pewresearch.org)
The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.
Frenemies on Facebook
Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:06 AM EST (Inside Higher Ed)
Send off the application. Buy the T-shirt. Join the Facebook group. Such is the process — not necessarily in that order — for many college-bound high school seniors.
The New Atlantis
Seeded on Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:49 PM EST (thenewatlantis.com)
The Myth of Multitasking
Race And The Web: Going After Niche Markets Or Practicing Digital Segregation?
Seeded on Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:43 AM EST (TechCrunch)
The release of Blackbird, an African American focused web browser sparked quite a bit of controversy this past week.
Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting - ReadWriteWeb
Seeded on Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:36 AM EST (Read/WriteWeb)
Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you should forget email.
Court rejects appeal over student-teacher drunk MySpace pics
Seeded on Sat Dec 6, 2008 6:43 AM EST (Ars Technica)
Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won't be teaching kids the three Arrrrs any time soon: They've rejected Snyder's claim that her First Amendment rights were violated when a MySpace photo showing her engaged in a bit of boozy buccaneering, as well as posts complaining abou …
Tennessee anti-P2P law to cost colleges over $13 million
Seeded on Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:29 AM EST (Ars Technica)
With the RIAA's long-running legal war against file-sharing not having the desired effects, the music industry has turned its sights on legislation aimed at getting others to do the dirty work of copyright enforcement.
With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:50 AM EST (Inside Higher Ed)
The current model of higher education was several centuries in the making. That leaves colleges adapting to online learning, a viable option for only about a decade, with a monumental game of catch-up.
Gates Foundation Puts New Focus on College Completion - Philanthropy.com
Seeded on Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:33 AM EST (philanthropy.com)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend several hundred million dollars over the next five years to double the number of low-income young people who complete a college degree or a certificate program by age 26, foundation officials told an exclusive group of education …
Top News - These traits make online teachers successful
Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:11 AM EST (eschoolnews.com)
What are the qualities that help instructors succeed when teaching online? That was the focus of a lively discussion at the 14th annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning Nov. 6.
A 'Penalty' for Starting at a Community College? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Seeded on Wed Oct 1, 2008 3:04 PM EDT (Inside Higher Ed)
Almost half of students enrolled in public colleges attend two-year institutions, whose role in expanding access to higher education continues to increase even as financial support for the institutions fails to keep up with student demand.
When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities? - Chronicle.com
Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:57 AM EDT (chronicle.com)
Who needs college credit when you have a makeshift diploma from a superstar professor?
Don't Buy That Textbook, Download It Free
Seeded on Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:08 PM EDT (The New York Times)
SQUINT hard, and textbook publishers can look a lot like drug makers. They both make money from doing obvious good — healing, educating — and they both have customers who may be willing to sacrifice their last pennies to buy what these companies are selling.
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