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Sharla Lair

edX, Coursera, Udacity - free online course initiatives - 2 views

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free online course training

shared by Sharla Lair on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 08 May 12
     
    Free courses from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and more...
  • anonymous on 09 May 12
     
    Academic Earth is pretty awesome too. http://www.academicearth.org/
  • Jennifer Parsons on 09 May 12
     
    I'm taking Stanford's CS101 course, actually, and I recommend it. There are some nice exercises, and the lectures allow you to toggle back and forth between an interactive study guide.
adrienne_mobius

Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries - 0 views

lj.libraryjournal.com/...n-opportunity-supporting-moocs

MOOC massive open online courses

shared by adrienne_mobius on 10 May 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 10 May 13
     
    MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses. There are multiple potential roles for libraries in MOOC development, support, assessment, and the preservation process.
Scott Peterson

With 'Access Codes,' Textbook Pricing Gets More Complicated Than Ever - 0 views

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Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 13 Sep 12
     
    A fairly concerning article about how a student taking a course with his wife didn't see the need to buy a second textbook for the class. However, with the textbook came a mandatory access code for supplementary materials and also to get access to the online discussion board and homework submission system. The student was unable to purchase the access code itself. This highlights an ongoing problem with software and digital access; publishers may legally be in their rights that every user is only granted access to a work and then to only one person, but users expect to be able to buy used books, old software, and so on. By essentially and artificially eliminating the secondary market of used/older materials publishers may increase their revenue per user but also increase user dissatisfaction and distrust.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

shared by Donna Bacon on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Jennifer Parsons

Free Webinars Introducing FOSS4LIB | Library Open-Source Software Registry - 2 views

foss4lib.org/...-webinars-introducing-foss4lib

library software opensource

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Mar 12
     
    Say, Sharla, would this be something our customers might be interested in?  I'm curious about it myself.
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  • Sharla Lair on 28 Mar 12
     
    Yeah, this looks very promising. Interestingly enough it is through Lyrassis, the company from which I am considering purchasing online courses. Go figure! How do we promote? Are all of the members on the training listserv? Can we just forward this email out on it?
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Mar 12
     
    Not all, just some, but this might be the kind of thing we'd cross-post on (i.e., to the Mobius-users-l list as well as the Training-l list). Christopher is usually the one who posts to the lists about training, and he does it across several lists; you may want to check with him. As far as promoting, I don't know-- first of all, will Lyrassis let us promote their stuff? I don't see why they wouldn't, but you never can be sure with some providers. But the lists are usually where a lot of the action is. We might also want to do a blog post to the MOBIUS website, too.
  • Sharla Lair on 28 Mar 12
     
    Ok. I'll talk to Christopher this afternoon about promoting training.
  • Christopher Gould on 01 May 12
     
    FYI, the training list is largely defunct. It was populated by people who were interested in discussing training with the MOBIUS office, but I was the only one who ever posted anything.
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    Yeah, that's often how lists go. People are always afraid to speak up.
Jessica Hammond

How to Search: Google Offers Free Online Classes - 0 views

mashable.com/...google-search-classes

shared by Jessica Hammond on 16 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Jessica Hammond on 16 Jul 12
     
    Google is offering formal (free) courses about to power search, with lectures and tests, to be completed over several weeks. I imagine these are useful skills librarians should know and be teaching their patrons. (Apparently, it is more than an intensive Google ad. John's doing it, and has found some of it interesting.)
anonymous

Generate and keep really secure passwords for free | ITworld - 0 views

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security passwords software

shared by anonymous on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Of course, they could look for a username that sounds like you in the list of 8 million LinkedIn and EHarmony logins and then just use the password published there, or the ones posted following the hack of 77 million user accounts at Sony or the 130 million credit-card accounts taken from the clearinghouse that processes your credit card payments, or tens of thousands lost by a New York electric utility or the California government services agency you thought was unquestionably trustworthy or the 24 million emails and user names swiped from Zappos or almost anywhere else.
  • you should use a different highly secure password at every site you use.
  • That way, no matter what web-site login database is breached next, your loss can be limited to only the information (or money) on that one site,
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  • KeePass -- one of two apps with unquestioned leads; both come with Firefox and Internet Explorer extensions or web sites you can used independently; LastPass – the other of the two leaders. Both are stable, quick, reliable and free;
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Jun 12
       
      I've used LastPass. It's nice, but I prefer to have something local if possible. I'm not really concerned with their security, but it's nice to have your passwords offline.
  • KeePass;
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Jun 12
       
      This one doesn't have a browser integration but it can be kept on a usb key for portability
anonymous

Subsidy Cut for MOBIUS Consortium - 0 views

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syndicate

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  • anonymous on 10 Feb 16
     
    Create the Library Your Community or Campus Needs Join Library Journal and a roster of design experts for our latest 4-week interactive online course. Starting January 27, 2016, Library Design Workshop will guide participants through complex issues of library space design projects such as space programming, fundraising, and finding the right design team.
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