Big developments in e-books
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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...