Recent reports highlight the rapid adoption rate of mobile devices. Lynne O’Brien, director of academic technology and instructional services for Perkins Library at Duke University, suggests how academic leaders can get started with piloting mobile learning.
[Source: Academic Impressions]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Colorado State University’s engineering department has taken its labs online to augment classroom activities and help students get their assignments done while away from campus.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Those keeping a pulse on student adoption of mobile devices may want to check this projection from Gartner that tablet devices, driven by Apple’s iPad, will climb to more than 19 million units sold worldwide this year, most in the US. That figure will grow to more than 200 million units in 2014.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Circulation losses at The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and many other newspapers around the country slowed in the six-month period that ended in September as papers focused on reaching readers in print, online, and through mobile devices.
Average daily newspaper circulation nationwide was down 5 percent during the six months ending Sept. 30 [2010], compared with the same period last year, according to new figures reported yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. That’s better than the 8.7 percent drop in the previous reporting period, from October 2009 to March [2010].
The Globe’s daily circulation dropped 15.6 percent to 222,683, while its Sunday circulation dropped 12 percent in the period to 368,303. Nationally, daily circulation at The Wall Street Journal, owned by News Corp., grew by 1.8 percent, while USA Today lost 3.6 percent. Daily circulation at The New York Times declined 5.5 percent; its Sunday edition fell 3.4 percent.
[Source: Boston Globe]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
The Amazon Kindle team says:
We wanted to let you know about two new features coming soon.
First, we are making Kindle newspapers and magazines readable on our free Kindle apps, so you can always read Kindle periodicals even if you don’t have your Kindle with you or don’t yet own a Kindle. In the coming weeks, many newspapers and magazines will be available on our Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and then we’ll be adding this functionality to Kindle for Android and our other apps down the road. Our vision is Buy Once, Read Everywhere, and we’re excited to make this possible for Kindle periodicals in the same way that it works now for Kindle books. More details when we launch this in the coming weeks.
Second, later this year, we will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable – this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending.
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Posted by Teb Locke
They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks — and loving it.
via In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks – NYTimes.com.
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The goal of the LabelMe project is to provide a dynamic dataset that will lead to new research in the areas of computer vision and computer graphics.
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Academics discussing whether to take their virtual campuses out of Second Life in protest, after the company that runs the online environment announced the end of a generous education discount.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Would you rather coordinate with colleagues on the Web or via e-mail? Google Groups lets you seamlessly do both at once.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
State has entered its fourth academic year of having students use Google Apps for Education to do e-mail, documents, presentation, and collaboration work. Those who have been part of the journey said they believe the change has had an impact greater just the technology in use.
[Source:Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
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