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Linda Frank is the director of Veteran and Military Education at Empire State College, where she manages military and veterans’ education programs and services across the college’s 34 locations, including the Center for Distance Learning, which serves students online in New York, nationally and internationally. Military Advanced EducationFull Interview
As patrons embrace mobile devices, libraries need to provide new services. Here’s a look at the state of mobile library services—and what libraries need to do to stay on the radarLibrary Journal
Built on an open source framework, SunGard’s Mobile Connection allows clients to develop cross-platform apps cheaply and quicklyCampus TechnologyFull Article
Los Angeles (CNN) – After spending 20 years in a midlevel job at a Southern California credit union, Dawn Moore wanted a promotion. But to move up in the company, Moore needed a bachelor’s degree. So what stopped her from going back to school? A full-time job, a family and a tight budget.CNNFull Story
Washington – Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks are relatively new, and advocates face questions about how to pay for such projects and how to maintain their quality.Wired CampusFull Article
When students groan about buying traditional textbooks, their grievances follow a familiar refrain: They’re expensive and usually boring. So this fall, a team of Temple University professors heeded those complaints and abandoned the old-fashioned texts for low-cost alternatives that they built from scratch.Wired CampusFull Article
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University announced today, Feb. 8, an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education. Indiana UniversityPress Release
This report provides foundational knowledge needed to examine and understand the potential contributions of online learning to educational productivity, including a conceptual framework for understanding the necessary components of rigorous productivity analyses, drawing in particular on cost-effectiveness analysis.US Department of EducationDownload The Report
A group of education leaders gathered last week to discuss the most important technology innovations of the last decade, and their findings suggest the classroom of the future will be open, mobile, and flexible enough to reach individual students—while free online tools will challenge the authority of traditional institutions.Wired CampusFull Article