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"School librarians are increasingly teaching digital skills, but they often become the first casualties of budget crunches.
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Filed Under: [Education • Text Books]
Posted on 17 Feb 2009 around 9pm
Ithaka has released University Publishing in a Digital Age by Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (preface by Kevin Guthrie).
Filed Under: [Publishing • Education • Text Books]
Posted on 28 Jul 2007 around 8pm
A recent survey commissioned by ebrary who operate in the library and publishing sectors, has found users of e-books don’t rely on Google to search for content. They received responses from 552 individual libraries, the majority of which were academic...
Filed Under: [Education • Text Books]
Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 10am
The BBC has closed down its ambitious £150m online learning resource following complaints from commercial rivals.
Filed Under: [Education • Media • The Web]
Posted on 19 Mar 2007 around 6pm
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, founded by the famous aviator, engineer, industrialist and film producer, have agreed with Elsevier to make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and its Cell Press journals freely available within six months of publication...
Filed Under: [Education • Journals]
Posted on 19 Mar 2007 around 6pm
Two notebooks that document the thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific investigations are now available online following a landmark collaboration between the British Library (BL) and Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates.
Filed Under: [Education • Publishing History]
Posted on 02 Feb 2007 around 10pm
Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa (2005) How electronic publishing changes the production and distribution of scholarly journals? . SRELS Journal of Information Management 42(4):pp. 459-464.
Filed Under: [Publishing • Education • Journals • Research]
Posted on 06 Jan 2007 around 10pm
Singapore will establish a primary school of future in 2008 which will lead the way in harnessing infocomm technology for teaching and learning.
Sourced at People's Daily Online
Filed Under: [Education • Technology]
Posted on 29 Dec 2006 around 10pm
UCL is to make a GCSE in a modern foreign languages compulsory for admission to all of its courses.
Filed Under: [Education]
Posted on 13 Dec 2006 around 6pm
British graduates are missing out on top business jobs because of their lack of language skills, an academic warns.
Filed Under: [Education]
Posted on 11 Dec 2006 around 10pm
By this time you may have started to have students turn in digital versions of their reports and other assignments. The advantage to this method is that you can avoid carrying home giant crates of student work every weekend (a la Leschke). We also save toner in the printers.
Sourced at Newsvine - technology
Filed Under: [Education • Writing]
Posted on 04 Dec 2006 around 8pm
In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that could affect thousands of college students who think they are overcharged for textbooks, two Daytona Beach Community College students have sued the nation's largest collegiate-bookstore chain and their school.
Filed Under: [Education • News • Text Books]
Posted on 26 Nov 2006 around 11am
