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Elsevier, the academic publishing giant, announcedon Tuesday that it will offer a free version of one of its textbooks this fall to students who register for Circuits & Electronics, a massive open online course (MOOC) being offered by edX. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
PDF library organization is important if you’re a student or a scholar. Enter new kid on the block ReadCube, a free Adobe AIR app currently in public beta. ReadCube offers a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for organizing, finding and reading articles. It’s a worthy competitor to Zotero and Mendeley. PCWorld Full Article
Social learning management system Lore has added a new feature that lets on-campus clubs and groups collaborate using the free tool. The company released Lore for Academic Groups this week, and it is available now. Campus Technology Full Article
The basic currency of higher education — the credit hour — represents the root of many problems plaguing America’s higher education system: the practice of measuring time rather than learning. EDUCATIONSECTOR Download Report
– State Leaders Stress Importance of Personalized Learning, Instructional Materials Innovation to Prepare Students for College, Careers – September 24, 2012 (Washington, D.C.) Today the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age. This report highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. […]
BALTIMORE, MD – StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that the largest public university in the United States, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), has joined their rapidly expanding network of partner colleges. With over 92,000 students, most of them working adults, UMUC is a formidable addition to StraighterLine’s partner school network, which now includes many of […]
The movement toward “open access” publishing — in which scholarly journal articles are available free — is taking off without consideration of the impact on humanities scholarship, says a statement being released today by the American Historical Association Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Being the first to complete Curtin University’s Bachelor of Education (Primary) through Open Universities Australia (OUA), they prove that it’s possible to become qualified for a practical career such as teaching, after studying online. Open Universities Australia (OUA) Press Release
Coursera’s on a growing streak. The number of new institutions of higher education to sign onto the free online course site has more than doubled, bringing the total count of colleges and universities participating to 33 from 16. Among the new schools participating: Berklee College of Music, Columbia University, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and Wesleyan. Campus […]
A new report by Moody’s Investors Service suggests that while MOOCs’ exploitation of expanded collaborative networks and technological innovation will benefit higher education in the United States as a whole, their long-term effect on the for-profit sector and smaller not-for-profit institutions could be damaging. University World News Full Article