Technology/Faculty

Tech giant unveils iBooks 2, iBook Author, and upgraded iTunes U

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on January 19, 2012 - 3:00am
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Publishing Industry
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LIVE UPDATES: Officials announce 100 new courses produced with colleges, and plans to make textbooks far more versatile.

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Blog U Special Edition: Apple's Announcement

Universities look to get discounts on e-textbooks for students

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on January 18, 2012 - 4:50am
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Publishing Industry
Teaching With Technology
Libraries and Publishing
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Universities have started banding together to negotiate favorable contracts with software vendors. With new effort, a group of them aims to exercise similar leverage with publishers on behalf of students.

What does the LMS of the future look like?

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on January 11, 2012 - 3:00am
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Teaching With Technology
Technology
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Two young companies try to elbow their way into the learning-management market, while another looks to subvert it from the outside.

U.S. News & World Report releases first ever online college program rankings

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on January 10, 2012 - 3:00am
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Technology
Online Learning
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Despite data collection bugs, U.S. News & World Report publishes the first online iteration of its controversial college rankings.

Humanities scholars consider the role of peer review

Submitted by Scott Jaschik on January 6, 2012 - 3:00am
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At the MLA, scholars consider how radically to change the traditional models for deciding what gets published.

In evaluating digital humanities, enthusiasm may outpace best practices

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on January 4, 2012 - 3:00am
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Research
Teaching With Technology
Technology
Teaching With Technology
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Digital Humanities
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Language and literature scholars have embraced technology in their research, but can they win tenure on it?

Daytona State reins in its push toward e-textbooks

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on December 23, 2011 - 3:00am
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Publishing Industry
Teaching With Technology
Teaching With Technology
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Daytona State reins in a plan to push students and faculty toward electronic textbooks.

Stanford's open courses raise questions about true value of elite education

Submitted by Steve Kolowich on December 13, 2011 - 3:00am
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Teaching With Technology
Teaching With Technology
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How close can Stanford's computer science department get to offering world-class courses for free?

Survey: Most Communications Programs Lack Online Courses

Submitted by Scott Jaschik on June 18, 2013 - 3:00am

Only 16 percent of colleges that offer degrees in communications offer at least one online course in the subject, according to a new survey by the National Communication Association. The association noted that a few of the departments listed as not having a program have password-protected course listings and some of them might have a course.

 

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Disability rights advocates and publishers push for national standards for ed tech materials

Submitted by Ry Rivard on June 14, 2013 - 3:00am
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Disability rights advocates and publishers want Congress to help create a national standard to make sure disabled students are not left behind by inaccessible higher ed technologies. 

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