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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Mathieu Plourde

Mathieu Plourde

Digital textbooks elicit mixed reactions by students, faculty - 0 views

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    ""We were shocked to discover that among our majors, there is considerable resistance to this idea," Frechie said. "It began as our faculty thinking how can we keep pace with this new, emerging, younger and more technologically-literate population of students that we're working with today." The administration at Cabrini is also taking into consideration that there are many conditions to look at before making any move toward a digital transition. It is likely that some upperclassmen at Cabrini wouldn't get to experience a digital classroom experience."
Mathieu Plourde

Zapified - 0 views

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    Site for UD students to sell and buy textbooks directly to one another.
Mathieu Plourde

iPads Available for Courses to Explore In-Class Use, e-Textbooks - 0 views

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    "The Center for Instructional Technology maintains a pool of approximately 125 iPads and iPad2s dedicated to student/faculty use in semester-long courses. Interested Duke faculty whose instructional goals are compatible with CIT's annual investigative goals as listed below may submit an application to use iPads in their class. Additional information and a link to the application can be found on the iPad Course Loan page."
Mathieu Plourde

How Nik Osborne Plans To Disrupt Class -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "In that model, the institution negotiates a deep discount off the list price of the textbook in order to have access to an e-text edition. In return for the discount, the university guarantees that every single student in the course will buy the e-text, which is charged like a lab fee."
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'Learning Analytics' Could Lead to 'Wal-Martification' of College - 0 views

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    "A number of experiments are using new kinds of data - such as how many times a student has clicked on an e-textbook or logged in to a class Web page - to measure and guide learning in new ways. That could improve the student experience, but it could also end up dumbing down college, argues Gardner Campbell, director of professional development and innovative initiatives at Virginia Tech."
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Barnes & Noble, Microsoft ink $300M deal on e-reading - 0 views

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    Newco will combine Barnes & Noble's digital and college businesses, meaning the retailer's Nook operations and its Nook Study software for students and educators will be a part of the undertaking.
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LTI Integrations - 1 views

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    "Not familiar with LTI? Basically it's like Facebook apps or Google widgets for LMSs. The tutorials page shows how to configure LTI tools in supported systems. There's also some handy extensions to LTI that you can learn more about on the extensions page. Tools with a gray label under their configuration xml support LTI extensions that won't work in all systems. Currently LTI extensions are only supported by Canvas. "
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Micromax Funbook Tablet - 0 views

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    Education-focused tablet sold for around $150 in India.
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College Faculty Continue their Love Affair with Print Textbooks, Says New BISG Study - 0 views

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    "Research finds overwhelming percentage of faculty feel students need texts to succeed… and they prefer them in print. "
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U of Minnesota opens up to open source textbooks - 0 views

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    "University of Minnesota faculty will be paid $500 to write a review of an open-source textbook. They'll earn the same amount to adopt such a book in class. "
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All faculty should utilize D2L technology - 0 views

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    "The university even hosts D2L training for instructors. There is no excuse for not knowing how to use D2L. Students who want to check their grades are instantly at a disadvantage. It also puts visually impaired students at a severe disadvantage."
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    Student newspaper article about forcing faculty to use the LMS.
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University of Illinois eTextbook UnConference - 0 views

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    "The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to host a gathering of interested parties to identify and discuss solutions to the challenge facing us with etextbooks and their adoption in higher education."
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Coursera Raises $16 Million To Bring Free Online Education to Millions - 0 views

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    Now, with $16 million in venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the two professors officially launched Coursera, their new online education company that includes partnerships with Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania to offer web-based classes on the Coursera platform for free. A total of 37 undergraduate and graduate-level courses across a broad range of disciplines will launch this spring.
Mathieu Plourde

Open access textbooks and financial sustainability: A case study on Flat World Knowledge - 0 views

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    if FWK (or other organizations) can find sustainability while distributing free digital textbooks, the textbook market could be dramatically altered. Because it is so hard to compete with "free," textbook prices would likely come down and eventually become only a small part of the cost of higher education. The potential for the disruption of the textbook publishing industry, as well as the potential savings to students, is enormous if one or more organizations can create a sustainable business model. Whether this can be done remains to be seen.
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Flat World Knowledge - All Access Pass - 0 views

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    Bookstores know their customer needs are changing and so do we! We started selling our All Access Pass (AAP) in the fall of 2011. Since then we've got a lot of positive feedback from students for the ease of use and instant access meeting their demands for multiple, affordable choices they can access anytime, anywhere, on any device . We now want to bring our bookstore partners into the fold by allowing them to sell All Access Pass redemption codes in their store. The All Access Pass helps bookstores stay competitive, better serve customers, and be "paper-lite."
Mathieu Plourde

eText Strategies: Creating a Path to Digital - 0 views

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    "Developing an eText strategy that will serve the needs of institutions, faculty, and students requires thoughtful planning. This presentation will use the Indiana University experience as a case study to explore the strategic, business, and policy issues that institutions should consider when exploring an institutional eText strategy or considering an eText initiative."
Mathieu Plourde

Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics - 0 views

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    Big data, it seems, is everywhere-even in education. Researchers and developers of online learning systems, intelligent tutoring systems, virtual labs, simulations, games and learning management systems are exploring ways to better understand and use data from learners' activities online to improve teaching and learning.
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Analytics in Support of Student Retention and Success - 0 views

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    "Higher education is facing a variety of conflicting challenges. National and state competitiveness depend on a citizenry with postsecondary education. Large segments of the population traditionally have not had equal access to higher education, and this is particularly true for minorities and the economically disadvantaged, two groups that also suffer disproportionally from another of higher education's challenges-students coming to higher education without adequate preparation. This bulletin describes an analytics system that Bowie State University (BSU) has implemented and is enhancing in order to improve the retention and success of at-risk students. While BSU has a substantial population of such students, the approaches taken are broadly applicable since many institutions have students in this category."
Mathieu Plourde

Digital content alone does not result in lower textbook prices - 1 views

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    "the best chance to make an immediate and meaningful impact on the price of textbooks is to facilitate the merging of traditional and free content, allowing instructors to include exactly what is necessary, and freeing students from the rigid and expensive traditional offerings from academic publishers. In this model, "book" costs are lowered regardless of output format. If we are cognizant of ways of merging different types of content in order to get the biggest academic bang for the buck, we must also be mindful of methods to access this content; to break it apart, to "disaggregate" it from the traditional bounds of textbooks and to present it to students in an effective manner."
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    Warning: This is a vendor perspective...
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