The future of the textbook?
Keith Hampson's Higher Education Management Group site has an interesting posting of Wired Magazine's video about a new digital biology textbook costing $10 million...
$300 iPads will eat Notebooks: Gartner
Nagel, D. (2010) Media Tablet Growth to be driven by iPad Campus Technology, October 26
Gartner Consultants has updated its forecast for overall worldwide enterprise...
E-book readers and scholarship: a research report
Gielen, N. (2010) Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship: Report and Reader Survey New York: ACLS Humanities E-book
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly...
Readers read more with e-books?
There was a news item in today's the Globe and Mail's Wall Street Journal business section as follows:
Fowler, G. and Baca, M. (2010) Growth...
In defence of the book and other thoughts on the digitalization of knowledge
I have been struggling with the concept of books and publishing for some time now. I have authored over 10 books published 'traditionally', i.e....
iPad versus books
Foresman, C. (2010) iPad gets the university treatment this fall Wired, July 24
A summary of the various initiatives taking place this fall semester in...
Are e-books good for studying?
Demski, J. (2010) The device versus the book Campus Technology, May 1
Three universities (Princeton, Arizona State University, and Northwest Missouri State) pilot two e-readers...
Early reports on iPads in higher education
Kolowich, S. (2010) Minor bumps for iPad Inside Higher Education, April 23
A report on how some USA universities and colleges have reacted to the...
Educational affordances of the iPad
For a very quick and preliminary review of possible educational uses or affordances of the Apple iPad, see Elliott Masie's 10 minute video at:...
More studies on the Kindle as a learning tool
Kolowich, S. (2010) Highlighting e-Readers Inside Higher Education, February 23
Reports are now in from three universities with student feedback on the use of the...