Friday, March 14, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Big developments in e-books

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Eisenberg, A. (2011) Making Science leap from the Page, New York Times, December 17 At last: an e-book designed to exploit digitality! This is a...

Student resistance to e-books

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Watters, A. (2011) Why aren't students using e-books? Mindshift, Nov 7 Some speculation on reasons why students aren't using e-books following a survey by the...

Preliminary results for the Campus Computing project survey

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Green, K. (2011) Campus Computing 2011: Big Gains in Going Mobile Campus Computing Project, October 20 The preliminary results for the 2011Campus Computing Project survey shows...

Is the iPad the future of text books?

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Aspey, S. (2011) Pearson and the Eminata Group Launch North America’s Largest iPad-Based eTextbooks Initiative for Postsecondary Institutions PRWeb, August 29 This announcement about a partnership...

California State System’s experience with e-books

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Roscoria, T. (2011) CSU System Shares e-Book Pilot Results Converge March 14 This reports on a large pilot with nearly 4,000 students across seven different...

Kindle vs iPad: the Reed College comparison

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Marmarelli, T. and Ringle, M. (2011) The Reed College iPad study Portland OR: Reed College Marmarelli, T. and Ringle, M. (2009) The Reed College Kindle...

2011 Horizon Report

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Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression...

e-learning retrospective: 2) how good were my predictions?

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On December 30, 2009, I posted my predictions for 2010: 1. Follow the money: 'In many countries, 2010 will be a difficult year financially....So we’ll have...

A gradual move to open-source textbooks

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Rosenhall, L. (2010) Internet, cost spur textbook revolt Sacramento Bee, December 6 For those of you who don't get the Sacramento Bee newspaper (you dont?!),...

NMC Horizon Report from down under

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New Media Consortium (2010) 2010 Horizon Report - Australia-New Zealand Edition Austin TX: New Media Consortium The NMC brings out its main projections for the...