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Jennifer Parsons

Innovative Interfaces Integrates All SkyRiver Services and Withdraws Antitrust Lawsuit ... - 0 views

www.infodocket.com/...antitrust-lawsuit-against-oclc

Professional Development technology software oclc lawsuit skyriver

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • “With the best interests of the library community in mind, we decided to view a relationship with OCLC as a potential collaboration partner, unclouded by legal issues,”
  • Jennifer Parsons on 04 Mar 13
     
    Well, that's an interesting development.
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.
anonymous

Yope - Surveys and Polls - 1 views

www.goyope.com

surveys polls

shared by anonymous on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • Team-based Collaboration
  • Built in Approval Workflows
  • Surveys and polls made uniquely simple. The first enterprise-caliber customer insight tool designed to satisfy complex corporate needs, while remaining crazy simple in its approach.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 10 May 12
     
    I couldn't find any samples, unfortunately-- the link has some screenshots, but they're not very helpful.
  • anonymous on 10 May 12
     
    I've signed up for the beta. Once I get the invite I'll create accounts for everyone to play with.
Sharla Lair

Transfer of Training: Moving Beyond the Barriers | trainingmag.com - 1 views

trainingmag.com/...raining-moving-beyond-barriers

transfer training

shared by Sharla Lair on 06 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Notwithstanding the complexities of training, it is indisputable that the true success of training is represented in the learner’s ability to demonstrate what has been learned.
  • Overall learner satisfaction is greater if the training is relevant to the job. In alignment with this idea is the importance goal setting (Gist et al. 1990). Relevant goals intensify the learner’s interest in the tasks at hand, which results in persistence from the learner to reach the goal (Gist et al. 1990).
  • new research has shown peer support as being significantly influential on effects of transfer (Burke & Hutchins, 2008). Peer collaboration, networking, and the sharing of ideas relating to the content can act as support for skill transfer in trainees (Hawley and Barnard, 2005)
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  • Provide support for transfer throughout the duration of the transfer process and not solely at specific time phases.
  • Further, incorporate assessment of transfer from trainee, trainer, and the organization’s perspective.
  • Sharla Lair on 06 Apr 12
     
    Good tips on learning transfer. Teach for transfer!
Sharla Lair

Piazza - Ask. Answer. Explore. Whenever. - 2 views

piazza.com

education collaboration tools discussion forum learning

shared by Sharla Lair on 06 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 06 Apr 12
     
    A possibility for our trainers?
Megan Durham

Codeacademy's Free Kits Help Kids (and Educators) Learn to Code - 0 views

www.thedigitalshift.com/...ds-and-educators-learn-to-code

Professional Development library software technology

shared by Megan Durham on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 17 Sep 12
     
    Free kits for teachers to help students learn to code and hopefully generate interest in coding. This is a really neat program I'm interested in how teachers like it and how they fit it in to their busy schedules. I imagine there is a lot of collaboration between teachers and librarians, since often times librarians are in charge of the school's computer lab.
Megan Durham

Stunning idea: digital library in Bucharest subway station [pictures] - 0 views

ebookfriendly.com/charest-metro-station-pictures

Professional Development library libraries technology ebooks

shared by Megan Durham on 12 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 12 Jul 13
     
    Vodafone Romania, in collaboration with a publishing house Humanitas, launched an ambient advertising campaign, which is simply fantastic. A Victoria Square metro station was turned into... a digital library. The walls are being covered with large format posters, from top to bottom. Bucharest commuters who enter the station suddenly discover that they're in an impressive library.
  • Megan Durham on 12 Jul 13
     
    @Sharla can we use this to promote the new Ebsco ebook purchase. . . we just need a big wall!
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