The iPad and the Future of Text – Digits – WSJ: “The iPad and the Future of Text”
Month: April 2010
“Fair use” generates trillions in the US alone
“Fair use” generates trillions in the US alone: “‘Fair use’ generates trillions in the US alone”
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
Google adds fair use defense to YouTube takedowns
Google adds fair use defense to YouTube takedowns: This is very cool.
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges
Distance education survey results
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at community colleges (Full PDF of report)
Teaching About the Web Includes Troublesome Parts – NYTimes.com
Teaching About the Web Includes Troublesome Parts – NYTimes.com: “Teaching About Web Includes Troublesome Parts”
“The first wave of parental anxiety about the Internet focused on security and adult predators. That has given way to concerns about how their children are acting online toward friends and rivals, and what impression their online profiles might create in the minds of college admissions officers or future employers.”
Agenda for Open Online Courses Can Go Forward, Federal Officials Say – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Agenda for Open Online Courses Can Go Forward, Federal Officials Say – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Agenda for Open Online Courses Can Go Forward, Federal Officials Say”
Math Teacher Has the Best Pranks – Urlesque
Math Teacher Has the Best Pranks – Urlesque: “Math Teacher Has the Best Pranks
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“Matthew Weathers is a math professor and PhD candidate who teaches at Biola University just outside of Los Angeles. Math geek, teaches at a small school, has a blog that’s updated a couple times a month at best, so what could someone like Matt do to wind up on a site like Urlesque? “
Citizens as public sensors
Citizens as public sensors – O’Reilly Radar: “Citizens as public sensors
The co-founder of SeeClickFix on how crowdsourcing can help local “
“When people talk about the effects of Gov 2.0, the discussion tends to center around transparency and making data available to the general public. But information can flow in both directions.”
Ithaka :: Faculty Survey 2009
Ithaka: Faculty Survey 2009: “”
“This fourth in a series of surveys conducted over the past decade examined faculty attitudes and behaviors on key issues ranging from the library as information gateway and the need for preservation of scholarly material, to faculty engagement with institutional and disciplinary repositories and thoughts about open access.”
” In the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey 2009, we (Ithaka) examined faculty attitudes and reported practices in three broad areas, finding that:
1) Basic scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly in recent years, and as a result the academic library is increasingly being disintermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance in one of its core functional areas;
2) Faculty members€Ÿ growing comfort relying exclusively on digital versions of scholarly materials opens new opportunities for libraries, new business models for publishers, and new challenges for preservation; and
3) Despite several years of sustained efforts by publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, faculty members, and others to reform various aspects of the scholarly communications system, a fundamentally conservative set of faculty attitudes continues to impede systematic change.”