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Tina Ulrich

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Selfish Tech - 1 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Why can’t you re-sell a “used” e-book?
  • The only answer I can come up with is that the booksellers don’t want it to happen.
  • I don’t think technology is the limiting factor.
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  • It’s shortsighted. If the demise of the music industry has taught us anything, it should be that walls don’t work. Sooner or later, demand will find a way around.
  • But piracy may have to happen to make the literary version of itunes acceptable to publishers.
  • I foresee a monster market for e-textbooks as soon as they offer something analogous to re-selling your used copies. Until then, the value proposition mostly isn’t there.
  • In theory, I could imagine a sort of kickback scheme for ebooks. If I re-sell my e-book license, maybe Amazon charges a buck to the second user as a transfer fee. So I sell my fifty dollar textbook for twenty-five, and the new purchaser adds a buck to Amazon to activate the new license. Amazon (and maybe even the author?) makes more than it has ever made from the secondary market, the buyer gets a flawless digital copy for relative cheap, and I recoup half of what I spent on something I don’t want anymore. This isn’t unthinkable.
  • Tina Ulrich on 15 Sep 11
     
    Some ideas about selling used ebooks!
Tina Ulrich

FAA Ends Journalism School Drone Use - Business Insider - 1 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 26 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • they need to obtain a Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the FAA before they can resume outdoor drone flights. (They are still allowed to use the UAVs indoors.)
  • Waite echoed his concerns: "The COA process, as it stands now, is antithetical to journalism. Permits take months. You have to apply to fly in a specific location — months in advance, mind you — and your chances of getting a permit drop if you ask for a place in restricted airspace... So the kinds of stories we can do are going to be very limited."
  • Tina Ulrich on 26 Nov 13
     
    Still a few regulatory issues to address . . . . . . 
Tina Ulrich

EBSCOhost: Community College Baccalaureate: A Fixed Effects, Multi-Year Study of the I... - 0 views

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shared by Tina Ulrich on 01 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • For the past 10 years, a growing number of community colleges in the US have begun to offer baccalaureate degrees across a range of targeted programmes including business, education, and nursing. This study examines whether community college baccalaureate policies result in an increased production of nurses — currently a policy priority in nearly every state across the country. The findings suggest that, even in the early stages of adoption, states allowing the Bachelor's of Science in Nursing at community colleges produce more nurses than non-adoption states. It also appears that these gains do not come at the expense of private colleges or public 4-year institutions. Nursing presents a unique set of opportunities and challenges and the findings reported here may not generalize to other disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
  • Tina Ulrich on 01 Feb 13
     
    This article looks good but we don't have access to it and neither does MSU.  If you want to read the whole article, send it to Rochelle and she'll order it through ILL.
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