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Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online

Eric V. LePage — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:16:25 +0000

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

Eric V. LePage — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:57 +0000

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

Eric V. LePage — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:19 +0000

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

Eric V. LePage — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:14:56 +0000

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.”

Tech World Overreacts to Google’s New Privacy Policy – How Does It Affect You?

Eric V. LePage — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:28:25 +0000

ReadWriteWeb: “Google updated its privacy policy on Tuesday. It replaced more than 60 separate policies with a single one that treats Google users and their data as the same across all Google services.”

Some Associations, Scholars Protest Bill That Would Curb Public Access to Research

Eric V. LePage — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:22:57 +0000

Wired Campus: “Opposition to the Research Works Act continues to spread. In a statement posted today on its Web site, the Modern Language Association said it opposes the bill, HR 3699, which would prevent federal agencies from requiring researchers to make the published results of federally supported research available to the public without publishers’ consent.”

Fair-Use Guide Seeks to Solve Librarians’ VHS-Cassette Problem

Eric V. LePage — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:22:26 +0000

Wired Campus: “The Association of Research Libraries might have a solution to what some librarians call ‘the VHS-cassette problem.’”

The Challenges of Digital Scholarship

Eric V. LePage — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:21:59 +0000

ProfHacker: “The call to seriously consider forms of new media such as blogging, YouTube and Twitter as part of academic scholarship is growing louder and louder.”

Campus Reactions to Apple’s Entry Into E-Textbook Market

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:10:46 +0000

Wired Campus: “Last week Apple released free software to make e-books for the iPad, declaring that the company intended to ‘reinvent the textbook.’ Apple also updated its iTunesU service, first released four years ago, to make it possible for professors to put syllabi, lecture videos and audio recordings, and e-textbooks into one spot for students.”

Students’ Video Game Tests New Artificial-Intelligence Engine — at the Prom

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:10:13 +0000

Wired Campus: “Few rituals conjure a storm of emotions like the high-school prom. Some remember the night forever, and others try to forget it as soon as they leave the gym.”