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hursday’s iBooks 2 update delivered interactive textbooks to the iPad. These books incorporate video clips, moving diagrams, audio commentary, and other new features that exploit the iPad’s touch interface. With a handful of such books already available for purchase from the new Textbooks section in the iBookstore, I decided to take the updated iBooks out […]
If you’re an educator at a university, college, or K-12 school, now you have an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content. And students and lifelong learners can experience your courses for free through a powerful new app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.AppleNew iTunes U App […]
Introducing an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive. A textbook created by publishers using a new authoring tool from Apple. A textbook brought to life by iPad.AppleiBooks textbooks for iPad
Starting school means a slew of preparation activities. Buying school supplies used to be fun, but ever since textbooks showed up on the checklist, school supply shopping became dreaded.The Crimson WhiteFull Article
In a session at the 2011 Educause conference in October, Bradley Wheeler, the chief information officer at Indiana University, issued a challenge to his colleagues. Unless universities assert their power as customers, the vendors that sell them products and services will continue squeezing those institutions for cash while dictating the terms under which they go […]
The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors’ lectures. “It’s not that I didn’t want to buy,” he says. “Sometimes, I just didn’t have the money for a $200 book.” VSU, a 129-year-old historically black college in Petersburg, Va., knows Martin isn’t the only one. More […]
I propose five factors — peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata — as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, a constellation of five independent criteria within a multi-dimensional publishing universe against which online journal articles can be evaluated, to see how well they match up with current visions for […]
University of Southern California is working toward a goal of building one of the largest scholarly data collections in the world.SOURCE: ConvergeRead the Artcile
Two years ago, Google Books was becoming the world’s largest digital library and, with an effective monopoly, seemed “almost certain to be the last one.” The tragedy for scholars was that Google Books’ metadata – which allow users to search the catalog – were “a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”SOURCE: Inside […]
I spend a lot of time working with computers now, but much of my life is still defined by the long relationship I’ve maintained with books.It’s surprising how many academics who identify with the digital humanities also have ties to “the History of the Book,” a field that has long been nurtured by seminars in […]
