(IATUL News Alerts, 26 July 2013) The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. One area in which librarians are frequently the source of advice and assistance is in providing copyright education and obtaining…
(New York, NY , 16 July 2013) Student use of alternative and illicit course materials is on the rise, according to new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s ongoing survey of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. The second installment in Volume Three of the study, which is powered by Bowker Market…
(9 July 2013, Chicago) ALA Editions will hold a session of its popular facilitated eCourse, E-Books: What Librarians Need to Know Now and for the Future with Mirela Roncevic.This four-week eCourse wiill begin on 3 September 2013. Mirela Roncevic has been involved with eBooks and eReaders since their emergence, and in this new eCourse she’ll give you…
(Las Vegas, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/) — Blackboard Inc. today announced a free, flexible option for running massive open online courses (MOOCs): a hosted instance of Blackboard Learn™, the company’s flagship learning management system (LMS). With more institutions looking to offer large, open courses, the offer will give institutions a fully functional, flexible platform option complete…
Two Shanghai universities have teamed up with Coursera, a United States-based website that offers open, online and free courses for learners from all walks of life. The local varsities were following in the footsteps of world-class universities such as Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the US. ShanghaiDaily.com has the story.…
(Washington, 24 June 2013 /PRNewswire) Blackboard Inc. today announced the release of xpLor™, a content platform that gives educators unprecedented ability to create, discover and share rich course materials across systems and institutions. xpLor is the industry’s first cloud-based learning object repository that supports multiple learning management systems (LMS). Users can create and store materials…
(7 June 2013) A new survey of colleges across Scotland shows that social media, and particularly YouTube, has firmly entered the learning environment as teaching and learning tools, with its use growing significantly year on year. In the 2012 ETNA (Enhanced Training Needs Analysis) survey, carried out by the Jisc Regional Support Centre (RSC) in…
(Washington, 21 June 2013 /PRNewswire/) Blackboard today unveiled Mosaic™, a unique platform that gives schools and universities a radically different approach to deploying mobile apps. While institutions can spend months developing apps and lack flexibility to make changes once they’ve launched, Mosaic greatly simplifies the process so that anyone who can use a web browser…
(Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, Ma, 19 June 2013) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and edX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative composed of the leading global institutions of the xConsortium, announced a collaboration today to strengthen economic expertise worldwide. The collaboration will extend the reach of the IMF’s training courses in macroeconomics and finance to governments…
The QR based revision tool for innovative on-the-go learning (Los Angeles, CA, 13 May 2013) SAGE today announced the launch of its highly innovative digital revision tool, MobileStudy to aid student learning on the go. As one of the first revision tools to use a QR reader, SAGE’s MobileStudy is a significant step in supporting…
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