"If you don't have DRM, it opens up strategies that aren't available to you if you insist on DRM," says Shatzkin. "The question is: Is the fear of piracy greater than the fear of Amazon?"

"Logically, e-textbooks should be much cheaper than the print options available to students--but they're not. CT looks at the rationale behind their pricing, and the market factors at play."

Disrupting Ourselves, The Problem of Learning in Higher Education

Great article by Randy Bass. There is a reference to the eportfolio model that C2L is starting to create. He also aligns eportfolios and PLE's. [E-portfolios, or Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), or whatever they are named-as something that enables students to weave these connections back and forth across the formal and experiential curricula-will be an essential element of our response to this disruptive moment. Randy also mentions the emerging discussions about learning analytics.

"'Learning Analytics' is a term used to describe an emerging professional practice that systematically applies statistics and research methods to large "n" data sets. Analysts look for patterns among the analyzed results that can inform more accountable decision-making."

Does anyone know if UD is a member of WCET (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies)? I signed up to follow the blog. WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education.

Proposal to design, implement and evaluate an open platform to integrate heterogeneous learning analytics techniques.

The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is an inter-disciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching, learning, training and development.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski on Feb 1 challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years.

2nd issue of the online journal just released.

Saw this - not sure if we might want to register. I am not sure all would be relevant - but thought this topic interesting: Drive improved student outcomes - with better visibility into student performance and drivers of student behavior.

"We have to figure out a way to use it engagingly and teach students when it s appropriate and when it's not appropriate to be doing that.""

"But what differentiates them from one another? How can educators determine whether the resources are high quality? Achieve and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) launched a new tool for users to rate the quality of open education resources. The tool allows educators to rate the quality of these teaching and student learning resources, align these resources to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and evaluate the extent to which the individual resources align to specific standards"

Collaboration Session at Sakai Conference Los Angeles 2011 on Learning Analytics

Steve Lonn is trying to see if there is interest for the 2012 conference to continue this discussion on learning analytics or in general he is asking "Where are folks in terms of their planning / development / deployment / study of learning analytics utilizing Sakai and/or other data sources?"