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The Electric Car and the Large Lecture Class
What can we learn about innovation in higher ed from the electric car?
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Lawsuit Fears and Digital Course Materials: 5 Things We Don't Do
How does the fear that you and your institution will get sued for copyright infringement alter the way in which you provide educational materials for your students?
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Minerva Project: Positioning and EdTech Questions
This week we learned about the newest player in the online higher ed for-profit space, the Minerva Project. Check out Audrey's blog post and and Doug's article for some good background and discussion about Minerva.
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Books Are The New Apps
Have you noticed that books are looking more and more like apps? Do you find yourself buying books from the Kindle Single store? Browsing the nonfiction selections at nowandthenreader.com? Checking out the original stories at atavist.net? Getting excited about the newest release from the TED Books?
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How EdTech Will Change March Madness in 2013
How will edtech change the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness, in 2013?
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Car Dealerships and Higher Ed
Remember when we all thought that the Internet would cause the car dealership to disappear? We'd all buy our cars online. We'd tell our grandchildren about the days when buying a car meant going to a "car dealership" and spending time with a "car salesperson". Life would be so sweet when car buying became a virtual, friction free experience.
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4 Higher Ed Lessons From "Why American Newspapers Gave Away the Future"
Pop quiz. In what year did newspaper revenues peak? Way back before the Internet? Wrong. The answer is in the year 2000. The fall of newspaper revenue, driven by the steep decline in advertising dollars, has been as dramatic as it was unexpected. The newspaper business (as measured in everything from newsroom staff to profitability to newspapers ceasing publication) is not in good shape - or at least is a pale shadow to what it once was.
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Supporting Chuck Severance's Blackboard Work
Our ed tech community should offer our full support to both Chuck Severance and Blackboard on his ascension to Blackboard's Sakai Strategist. In his role at Blackboard, Chuck will maintain his faculty appointment at the University of Michigan as a Clinical Associate Professor of Information in the School of Information. Blackboard will support his consulting, research, and summer salary - but my understanding of the relationship is that Chuck will retain a high degree of autonomy and discretion.