Is the cloud the future to revolutionizing education? Gordon Freedman in the Chronicle proposes some interesting ideas (Chron):The problem with many academic systems is that they are "dumb" to who their users are, what they are doing, and what other systems they are using. This is largely because colleges have different buyers for different functions—learning management, student-information...
Monday, April 30, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
I was in London all week where I had a terrific London Book Fair and met many new publishers and partners which accounts for the lack of posts this week - even missed my weekly photo image.Academic and Scientific publishing is still hitting the main stream news with little or no real counter pr campaign mounted by the publishers in question. Elsevier is taking the brunt of the attention as in...
Monday, April 16, 2012
Tarrant county (Texas) attempts to save students money on textbooks runs into faculty resistance (IHEd):The push for cheaper textbooks isn’t new, and the spat in Tarrant County frames larger debates about the use of open-source texts and the best way to increase student learning while controlling costs. Some community colleges have saved money by working with publishers to create custom books for...
Friday, April 13, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
The New York Public library is undergoing a renovation of sorts and will be moving a large segment of its' print collection to off-site storage. Many large academic libraries (in particular) have or are under-going similar realignments among them the British Museum, Stanford, NYU and Ohio State. Naturally,...
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