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Isaacson argued that online information shouldn't be exclusively ad supported, and that journalists should consider a small charge for articles, similar to the iTunes payment system for songs.

Toronto was the first city to break the one million user mark, and in some cities non-Facebook users are in the minority. This article examines evidence that Facebook is reaching saturation levels in Canada.

Each student was required to find 5 articles, read them, and summarize them; uploading their summaries (or the author's own abstract) into a ZohoCreator form. ZohoCreator is a free service that allows you to create database input forms.

The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty.

After describing the ways in which copyright law challenges educators and universities, McGrail and McGrail offer some strategies for dealing with copyright in the new millenium and conclude with a call to revise copyright law in a way that acknowledges the realities of Web 2.0.

For what began with college students has found its fullest, richest expression with us, the middle-aged. Here are 10 reasons Facebook is for old fogies:

RSS allows casual readers to become ongoing subscribers, easily receiving new articles in a convenient way when they are available. A world without RSS (or, of course some other simple syndication protocol) would be a very bad world for blogs.

Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the "declared" set of friends and followers.

The Open Source Portfolio (OSP) software for eportfolio learning and assessment has seen widespread adoption over the last five years. This article surveys the current state of OSP development and use and shares results of research on its effectiveness, conducted through the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research.

We are researching without having an impact, speaking without being heard and writing without being read. Furthermore, our tenure and promotion procedures reward publication more than they do awareness of the field, thus pushing up conference attendance, and journal and book submissions.

Twitter may not function as a broadcast medium as much as it serves as a quick relay service for sharing ideas, thoughts and concerns with others who have similar interests, both locally and at great distances. These practices typically follow the formula, articulated by Barbara Ganley, that we "blog to reflect, Tweet to connect."

With state budgets crippled, endowments declining, and requests for financial aid mounting, universities and colleges around the United States have sharply curtailed faculty hiring

Is the business model of the future one where the customer no longer pays? Already products in the digital marketplace are being given away free, yet companies are still making profits.

More than 120 attended the 16th annual UD Winter Faculty Institute on Jan. 6. Corresponding to the theme of the month-long program, "The Ecosystem of Learning at the University of Delaware," the day's events demonstrated how teaching tools and learning practices are rich, diverse and highly interconnected.

For years, workplace experts have touted the value of multitasking. But today, it's common to hear people complain about the inability to stay on track long enough to read a simple news story. The Internet is a snacking medium; people only consume bits and pieces. Prensky believes employers need to change their workplace culture in order to take advantage of the skills today's techno-savvy employees bring to the table.

It then follows that as faculty we would seek to create such communities for our students, to foster their own rigor and creativity of thought and communication--to develop their own expertise.

Here, excerpting from the conclusion to this volume, we consider how electronic portfolios provide a vehicle for a transition into the future of higher education.

Future generations of learners will no doubt look back at the global economic crisis of 2008-9 and reflect on which institutions were agile enough to make a difference by bringing the wisdom of their scholars together with the acumen of their technology officers and the ingenuity and determination of their university leaders.

The only way for all of us to deal with the current challenge to our particular approach to learning - aside from ignoring it completely, which is about as effective as ignoring an oncoming truck - is to seize the wheel and create our own learning network.

Institutions need assessment management using portfolio data but students need personal portfolios to learn. Within one technology, portfolios, IT must show both the liberating and controlling faces.