Jan 28, 2014 | Academic Trends
Courtesy of: MOOCs.comProfessors from MIT and Harvard report on their first year in MOOCs and the edX project: MITx working papersHarvardX Working PapersThere were 841,687 registrations from 597,692 unique usersOnly 5 percent earned a certificate of...
Nov 15, 2013 | Academic Trends
Big success for the Google Book project and the libraries involved in this initiative. Yesterday a judge ruled that the project did not break any fair use regulations and dismissed the lawsuit.Access full text of the ruling here, thanks to Karen Coyle’s blog...
Apr 19, 2013 | Academic Trends
Launched on April 18, 2013 the Digital Public Library of America aims to “make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of...
Jan 17, 2013 | Academic Trends
E book prices continue to fall:In the past few months, pricing of ebooks and issues of competition are coming into sharper focus. Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today—prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new...
Nov 9, 2012 | Academic Trends
EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research has released its annual survey of undergraduates’ attitude towards technology in Higher Education.Click on the image for the full infographic.Read the entire report.
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