A survey by Inside Higher Ed and Babson Survey Research Group shows professors are excited about many aspects of digital teaching and scholarship. However, the survey also shows digital learning increases professors’ work loads and adds more stress to their job.
[Source: Inside Higher Ed]
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Students surveyed after a pilot project at five universities praise the portability and cost of electronic texts but complain that they are difficult to navigate.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Profhacker contributor Ryan Cordell shares the nine essential Mac apps that power his semester.
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A company that runs online discussion forums for thousands of professors recently performed its first major analysis of trends across its platform.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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A new book by Arthur Levine and Diane R. Dean presents a complex, data-based portrait of today’s college students.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels.
via Project Look Sharp :: K-12 & Higher Ed. Media Literacy Lesson Plans :: Ithaca College.
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AT&T wont charge extra to use Apples FaceTime over cellular networks as previously reported, but theres still a catch: Subscribers will need a new Mobile Share plan to use the video chat service on the network.
Mobile Share is a new type of wireless plan that AT&T will launch on August 23. It allows users to share a single bucket of data across multiple phones, tablets and hotspots, and includes unlimited talk and text. We’ve got all the details at iOS Central.
[Source: MacWorld]
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LOS ANGELES — As another academic year starts, about 500,000 children across the country will find themselves learning subjects like middle school history or high school biology from a new line of digital textbooks. These manuals, branded Techbooks, come with all the Internet frills: video, virtual labs, downloadable content.
But the Techbook may be most notable for what it does not have — backing from a traditional educational publisher. Instead it has the support of Discovery, the cable TV company…
via Discovery Invests in Digital Textbooks in Hopes of Growth – NYTimes.com.
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A new way of printing colours at the highest resolution permitted by the laws of physics could be used to create secure watermarks or high-density data storage – not to mention some great-looking pictures.
via One Per Cent: Best-ever quality printing inspired by stained glass.
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