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Archive for the ‘Education Technology’ Category

Report Suggests Students Don’t Need Many Library Services at Crunch Time

27 Jan

There is an interesting report from Project Information Literacy (based at Washington University Information School) called How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library during Crunch Time. Here is the abstract: Abstract: The paper presents findings from 560 interviews…

 
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Posted in Current Affairs, Education Technology

 

Covering SCOTUS: Thomson Reuters’ Case by Case vs SCOTUSblog, Sponsored by Bloomberg Law

20 Dec

On December 13, 2011, Thomson Reuters launched “a dynamic interactive online tool offering comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2011-12 term. Case by Case: The U.S. Supreme Court, accessed at www.reuters.com/supreme-court/2011-2012, combines original reporting from Thomson Reuters News &…

 
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Posted in Education Technology, Products & Services, Publishing Industry

 

Copyright Developments In The News

05 Oct

There were three recent developments in copyright. The first is that the United States and seven other governments signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) last Saturday. Parties to the super-secret talks who have not signed yet include the European Union,…

 
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Posted in Court Opinions, Current Affairs, Education Technology

 

When e-Books Are Revised

03 Oct

Two stories popped up recently, one from Stephan Shankland via CNET and one from Carol Saller in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both dealt with the mechanisms of correcting e-books for typos and such. Shankland’s example concerned the Kindle version…

 
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Posted in Books, Education Technology, Electronic Resource

 

When e-Books Are Revised

03 Oct

Two stories popped up recently, one from Stephan Shankland via CNET and one from Carol Saller in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both dealt with the mechanisms of correcting e-books for typos and such. Shankland’s example concerned the Kindle version…

 
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Posted in Books, Education Technology, Electronic Resource

 

Cornell Student Wants Unlimited Campus Internet Access

18 Aug

I read, with some amusement, a story in the Wired Campus blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education about Cornell University sophomore Christina Lara’s petition for the school to drop Internet bandwidth caps. Lara apparently goes beyond her allotted quota…

 
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Posted in Education Technology

 

Textbook Rental Comes To The Kindle

18 Jul

The promise of electronic textbooks has been with us for awhile. Anyone remember the competing platforms of Folio on Lexis and Premise on West? Both companies sold electronic versions of their casebooks in the 1990s, though they were heavily drenched…

 
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Posted in Books, Education Technology, Electronic Resource, Web/Tech

 

University of Michigan To Allow Campus Access To Digital Oprhan Works

29 Jun

What to do about orphan books and digital access? One of the several reasons that the Amended Settlement Agreement negotiated by Google and the publisher and author associations was not approved had to do with these books. Judge Chin said…

 
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Posted in Digital Collections, Education Technology

 

Couldn’t Attend CALI’s Annual Meeting, Check Out Archived Webcasts

28 Jun

Videos of presentations are availabe at the CALIcon11 Webcast Catalog. [JH]

 
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Posted in Education & Professional Development, Education Technology, Information Technology, Meetings, Web Communications