Campus Technology: “As smartphones become ubiquitous, educators debate how to take advantage of their unique strengths for learning while minimizing their disruptive influence.”
Archive for January, 2012
Smartphones: Teaching Tool or Brain Candy?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 |
Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 |
Wired Campus: “Elsevier, the global publishing company, is responsible for The Lancet, Cell, and about 2,000 other important journals; the iconic reference work Gray’s Anatomy,along with 20,000 other books—and one fed-up, award-winning mathematician.”
Stalled ‘Hubble Telescope of Supercomputers’ Resumes Construction
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 |
Wired Campus: “A football-field-size computer room at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been sitting nearly empty for months, waiting for parts, in a stalled effort to build what researchers are calling the ‘Hubble telescope of supercomputers.’ IBM, the original supplier, abruptly withdrew from the project last summer just as it was to deliver racks of computer servers, forcing the university to shop for new parts for the unique project.”
Not So Fast: Teens Aren’t Fleeing Facebook For Twitter
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 |
ReadWriteWeb: “Contrary to an Associated Press report implying otherwise, teens are not shutting down their Facebook accounts in favor of Twitter.”
Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2012 |
Chronicle of Higher Ed: “In academe, the game of how to win friends and influence people is serious business. Administrators and grant makers want proof that a researcher’s work has life beyond the library or the lab.”
Grading OERs for Class
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2012 |
Campus Technology: “Social-networking tools and learning analytics can help educators evaluate OERs.”
Textbook of the future? Not until we figure out distribution, DRM, and ecosystem
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2012 |
ZDNet Education: “Hardware is only a tiny part of the problem we need to solve to get educational resources into kids’ hands (both literally and figuratively) at scale.”
Apple’s Textbooks Improve Everything but the Text
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2012 |
TechNewsWorld: “Apple’s selection of textbooks in its new iBooks Store is still relatively light, but one of the more popular selections so far is Life on Earth, a biology textbook. If this book’s any indication, it looks like Apple’s approach to e-textbooks will present students with new and visually stimulating ways to learn from a book — though as far as text goes, it’s mostly your typical dry prose.”
