Group items tagged

"Increases in the licensing cost of the plagiarism detection service Turnitin is causing concern at a number of UK universities"

"A report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office on June 6th confirms a trend of the educational publishing industry: textbook costs to students at higher education institutions are rising 6% per year on average, and have risen 82% over the last decade. The study, ordered by Congress, looks at the efforts of publishers and colleges to increase the availability of textbook price information and "unbundled" buying options as required under provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA"

A conference app. Free for up to 200 downloads

EVGENY MOROZOV on Snowden and the fate of the Internet.

"The price of college is going to fall, and the Internet is going to cause that fall. The rest of it is really difficult to figure out."

Interesting post on the price of 'free' and the meaning for educational conferences

interesting hosted LMS solution with some cool features, pretty good entry level class-based pricing model

File storage and sharing in the cloud. 20Gb storage free.

Harvard Library cannot afford to subscribe to scholarly journals which have increased in cost to $3.75m, They recommend staff use open access journals.

via Downes: Brian Lamb's presentation is smooth, polished and informed. Culture, he says, is something that historically we have participated in by creating and not merely consuming. And we are returning to those days, where we can create content for ourselves that we used to pay for and merely consume. Indeed, for any content company, placing a barrier - such as price - between the content and readers is a fatal mistake. Culture is something that is ours - it's not simply the creation of the best, it's an act that is a part of being there (like the million people who have photographed Barack Obama). And when each person records his or her own presence, we can create something larger than life, something real. Knowing that you are making a significant contribution to public discourse is motivation to create and contribute. There's this and a lot more in this presentation.