In recent months, more than 11,000 researchers worldwide have expressed their dissatisfaction through a petition calling for a boycott of Elsevier. This academic publishing giant earned profits of more than US $1.1 billion in 2011.
CREATING LEARNING MATERIALS FOR OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING - 0 views
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Handbook on creating learning materials for distance learning. Put together by the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver.
How Tablets Will Change Higher Ed | .eduGuru - 0 views
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Article that provides statistics on tablet prevalence in university students. Explains the difference between mobile and tablets. Briefly suggests uses for tablets in higher ed.
Twitter Handbook for Teachers - 0 views
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An overview of Twitter and ways of using it in education. A Twitter primer with reasons, stories and resources.
Crisis in academic publishing - UdeMNouvelles - 0 views
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He says a good model is the public subsidy of scholarly publishing. “Academic publishing costs about one percent of what is allocated to research,” Guédon noted. “All you need is to add this amount to research budgets to cover publication costs while ensuring independence from governments so they don't interfere with content. This already exists in Latin America with the Scientific Electronic Library Online, which includes 800 open access journals.”
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Some figures to remember315%: the average price increase of subscriptions for universities between 1986 and 2003, while inflation was only 68% for the same period. US $1.1 billion: profits earned by the publisher Elsevier in 2011, a profit margin of around 35%. Between $7 and $8 million: the cost of electronic subscriptions for Université de Montréal libraries, representing around 80% of the acquisitions budget. US $24,047: the price of a yearly subscription to the journal Brain Research. 7,000: the number of open access scholarly journals. 80%: the proportion of journals worldwide allowing authors to deposit their articles in an open access repository or on their personal websites. 19 million: the number of pages visited since the creation of the Érudit platform in 1998, whose content is 90% open access. 375,000: the number of theses and dissertations downloaded from Papyrus, the institutional repository of Université de Montréal, in 2011.
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This is a very interesting article from the University of Montreal about open access journals, the cost journals, profits of major journal publishers and what the impact of all this is on post-secondary institutions.
Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses - 0 views
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This article takes Chickering & Gamson's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (1987) and applies it to online courses.
Evaluating creativity - 0 views
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"Evaluating creativity can be difficult: is one evaluating process or product? Achievement or effort? Evaluating creative effort can also be more time-consuming than other forms of assessment. Researchers have developed many specific tools for assessment. This page presents only an overview of the topic." This page is just one part of a section of their Website (Iowa State University - Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching) dealing with creativity in education.
Illinois Online Network: Initiatives - 0 views
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"ION and the Illinois Virtual Campus have taken the lead to develop a quality online course rubric and evaluation system in the state of Illinois. The goal of this project is to help colleges and universities to improve accountability of their online courses."
7 Things You Should Know About | EDUCAUSE.edu - 1 views
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"Use these quick reads to get essential information on emerging technologies and practices, including potential implications and opportuntities. These resources are great to share with teams or faculty considering a new technology."
University of Saskatchewan: Copyright - 0 views
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Welcome to the home of copyright management at the University of Saskatchewan!
U of S: Academic Course Policy - Course Syllabus - 0 views
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"Instructors shall indicate the following in their course syllabus:"
Action Verbs for Learning Objectives - 0 views
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Good list of action verbs to use in writing learning objectives.
Decoding the Disciplines - 0 views
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The website from the team at Indiana University exploring bottlenecks in student learning as a way to decode the disciplines. Very relevant to
Millennials: They Aren't So Tech Savvy After All - 0 views
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Conventional wisdom has it that kids and young adults now coming of age have been so steeped in everything from video games to social networking that they bring amazing new technology skills to the workforce. The truth may not be so rosy.
7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals -- THE Journal - 0 views
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While the article is about leadership in educational technology, almost all of it applies to leadership in any area of educational innovation. "The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform--be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism--is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology. Any educator will tell you the most successful implementation of technology programs takes place in schools where the principal sees him or herself as a technology leader."
PEAR - Student learning through online Peer Evaluation, Assessment and Review at the Un... - 1 views
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An interesting tool developed at Guelph to support student peer evaluation, assessment and review (PEAR)
APA Style Blog - 0 views
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Looking for something that might not be easy to find, or even in the APA style guide? The folks at APA have a blog with lots of helpful information.
Technology - Alexis Madrigal - How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper? - The Atla... - 0 views
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"The Modern Language Association likes to keep up with the times. As we all know, some information breaks first or only on Twitter and a good academic needs to be able to cite those sources. So, the MLA has devised a standard format that you should keep in mind."
5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - 0 views
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"Some professors are using Twitter in innovative-and effective-ways that benefit students. Here are five unique ways Twitter is enhancing education:"
CTE Teaching Tips: Ten Questions to Ask When Designing a Blended Course - 1 views
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"A blended course often reduces face-to-face "seat time" so that students can pursue additional teaching and learning activities online. These ten questions (adapted from the University of Wisconsin's Hybrid Course website ) are a good starting point when thinking about blended course redesign."
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