If African scholar Ruth Finnegan’s fund-raising campaign via a new site called Unglue.it is successful, the anthropologist’s classic and a definitive study on oral literature in Africa would be back in circulation.
UPDATE: 255 Ungluers have pledged $7,562 toward a $7,500 goal.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Free online courses for the masses are all the rage—and many are being run by start-ups hoping to profit by selling related materials and services. Jim Groom thinks that’s too commercial, so he’s raising money for the online course he co-teaches at the University of Mary Washington using Kickstarter, the popular “crowd funding” service.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Dropbox has launched a major redesign, simplifying many file management tasks and bringing a new video and photo viewer.
The first thing you’ll notice in the new Dropbox UI is the action bar which lets you sort files by name, date, size and type.
Click on a file, and the action bar will get new options — for example, you can download, delete, rename, move or copy a file from there.
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Posted by Charles Wachira
The author suggests modeling a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Professors don’t want students to rely on the site but admit it’s a useful starting point for research.
[Source: US News & World Reports]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Experiment reveals that technologies that are often dismissed because of their crowd-sourcing nature can actually be useful in the classroom.
[Source: National Post via Bennett Helm]
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