Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.
E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill
gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to
provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our
traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win
solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.
The reputation of Germany's higher education system has been shaken by the revelation that investigators are looking into a PhD scam in which professors were paid to help students gain their doctorates.
"THE fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist."
In this article, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to analyze argumentative knowledge
construction in CSCL from sampling and segmentation of the discourse corpora to the analysis of four pro-
cess dimensions (participation, epistemic, argumentative, social mode).
This article suggested that by developing open source software which adopt some features like in Google, would help library users finding information they need.