I hadn’t reckoned on the fact that Oxford University Press is an academic publisher, and the academic publishers aren’t like trade publishers. They have their…
Category: HIgher Ed
But Ms. Hargittai and Mr. King, among others, say that the familiar narrative about tech-smart young people is false. Their course grew out of years…
Rebecca Harner is lending out “study buddies” in the Colorado College library. I love this idea and from the sounds of it the project was…
Research on games and learning have shown us that games can be powerful tools for learning–providing players with the opportunity to learn from and even…
When a group of students from Iowa State University (ISU) contacted us earlier this month about forming an ISU Digital Freedom group, they were facing…
Academics are now urged to blog. We are told that having to write for ordinary readers will help us to write in plain English, clarify…
Printing has entered the z-axis. Having purchased a desktop 3-D printer in August, Print Services is offering use of the machine to all faculty, staff…
Online education arguably came of age in the last year, with the explosion of massive open online courses driving the public’s (and politicians’) interest in…