LTI Standard Promises a Kinder, Gentler LMS
Learning Tools Interoperability is helping both IT and faculty turn the learning management system into a more seamless, fluid platform. Campus Technology Full Article
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Open Access Books: Wellcome Library Announces Support of Knowledge Unlatched Project & View “KU: The Movie”
Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. Library Journal Full Article
Download Free Book– Net Effects: The Past, Present & Future Impact of Our Networks – History, Challenges and Opportunities by: Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman
Almost a month into my new job, the fact that I’ve always been a “network guy” and an intrepid history buff should come as no surprise. Reading history has reinforced the central importance networks play and revealed the common themes in successive periods of network-driven change. Now, at the FCC, I find myself joining my […]
Open access body needed ‘to coordinate implementation’
A formal body should be set up to coordinate efforts to implement open access, the Finch Group has recommended. Times Higher Education Full Article
Download Report: Technology Outlook > STEM+ Education 2013-2018
The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018: An NMC Horizon Project Sector Analysis was released as a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC), the Centro Superior para la Enseñanza Virtual (CSEV), Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Control at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics […]
Delving into Digital Learning
Carnegie Mellon University will open the world’s largest database on student learning to the public in an effort to identify best practices and standards for using technology in the classroom, the university announced on Monday. To support the open-access initiative, the institution will form a council of higher education leaders, education technology experts and industry […]
In College Admissions, Social Media Can Be a Double-Edged Sword
When I wrote my Technophoria column this weekend about how some college admissions officers have occasionally identified social media posts that negatively affected applicants’ chances of acceptance, I assumed the phenomenon would not come as news to the parents of high school students. The New York Times Full Article
Open Educational Resources for Professionals: A New Era in the Training and Development of Legislative Counsel
This paper discusses a current project to develop open educational resources (OER) for legislative counsel in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. The project is the latest step in a 20-year old distance education program for those professionals. The paper explores best practices for investment in freely available OERs for use by professionals and students […]
University of Oklahoma Launches Online Learning Platform
The University of Oklahoma has launched its own online interactive learning community called Janux. Campus Technology Full Article
The Decline of Wikipedia
The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other. It rarely tries new things in the hope of […]
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