If you have a Kindle or Kindle e-Book software for your computer or mobile device (e.g.; iPhone), you can get a small library of free books from Amazon like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and more.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and other free Kindle books
October 21, 2009
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EthicShare: A Model for Virtual Research Communities
October 14, 2009Free and open collaborative resource draws scholars from across disciplines.
The proliferation of Web 2.0 social networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and even Flickr got some people thinking: Which scholarly disciplines need better ways of researching, collaborating, and communicating, and could a social networking model play a role?
“Bioethics and applied ethics scholars are very interdisciplinary in their work,” said Kate McCready, EthicShare project director at the University of Minnesota, “The departments that most bioethics and applied scholars studied in and received degrees from don’t have the same names as the departments where they now work. They came from philosophy, religious studies, medicine, public health, etc., but now work in ‘bioethics.’”
[Source: Campus Technology]
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How 4 Colleges Support Free Online Courses
October 13, 2009
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Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price
October 13, 2009Online students want credit; colleges want a working business model
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Near-instant book printer adds Google Books titles
September 29, 2009Google is hell-bent on digitizing the worlds books, but its also aware that sometimes you just want to turn the pages. On Demand Books, makers of the Espresso Book Machine, are expected to announce that they have been granted access to Googles library of public domain digital books for use with their product. The Espresso Book Machine can print a 300-page book in four minutes, complete with a cover and a bound edge.
[Source: CNET News]
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Obama’s Great Course Giveaway
August 4, 2009Clues to a grand online-education plan emerge from the college and the experts that may have inspired it.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Free Online Courses & Lectures from Great Universities (via Podcast and MP3) | Open Culture
July 24, 2009Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.
via Free Online Courses & Lectures from Great Universities (via Podcast and MP3) | Open Culture.
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100 Awesome Open Courses for New Media Scholars | Online Universities.com
July 22, 2009By Kathleen Baker
New Media Studies has become increasingly popular in as a college major with the ever faster implementation of new technologies in recent years. For those who are unfamiliar, New media studies explores the possibilities of new digital media in communication, education and other social, political and intellectual facets, though the field itself is quite open ended. These free open courseware offerings will serve those who are already studying new media, who have an interest in the subject, and even those who know nothing about it at all. Check out this list of 100 courses to learn more about the many facets of new media and gain a better understanding of the type of material it encompasses.
via 100 Awesome Open Courses for New Media Scholars | Online Universities.com.
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Wikimedia Commons
June 2, 2009A database of 4,516,486 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. More info …
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The $8 billion college textbook market
April 16, 2009Much has been written over the last year about the imminent demise of the $40 billion print newspaper industry at the hands of digital media. At Greenhill SAVP we believe the newspaper industry is just the tip of the iceberg and that conditions are in place right now for disruptive and rapid acceleration of other print content to all web-based or web/print hybrid content solutions. College textbooks are near the top of the list. Let me explain why.
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