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Textbooks: A Value Proposition
11/13/2007
- Alverno College (2007). Diagnostic Digital Portfolio. Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- American Association of Publishers (2007). Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (May, 2007). Study on the affordability of college textbooks. Retrieved from the web June 6, 2007.
- Aguera y Arcas, Blaise (May, 2007). TedTalk on Photosynth demo. Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- California State University Digital Market Place Initiative. Retrieved from the web June 8, 2007.
- Center for Applied Special Technology (2007). Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- Connexions (2007). Retrieved from the web June 9, 2007.
- Creative Commons (2007). Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- eduCommons (an open courseware management system). Retrieved from the web June 1, 2007.
- eTextOhio (forthcoming). To be available at: eTextOhio.ohiocollectiveaction.org.
- Felder, R. & Silverman, L (1988). Learning and teaching styles in Engineering Education. Engineering Education, 78(7). 674-681.
- Gardner, H. (April, 2003). Multiple intelligences after Twenty Years. Presented to the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL. Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- Google Print Library Project (2007). Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- IMS Global Learning Consortium (2007). Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- Lynch, C. (June, 2001). The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World. First Monday, 6(6). Retrieved from the web June 7, 2007.
- Lulu (2007). Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- McElroy, P., Leonard, J., & Beckerman, B. (May, 2007). A generational opportunity: A 21st Century Learning content delivery system. Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- MIT OpenCourseWare (June, 2006). 2005 Program Evaluation Findings Report. Retrieved from the web June 11, 2007.
- Utah Rolls Out Online Document Proofreading
The University of Utah has acquired a site license of CyProof's ErrNET for online document proofreading. ErrNET runs on CyProof's servers and is accessed through the user's Web browser. To check a document, users upload their files to the Web site, the cost is calculated, payment is requested, the document is processed, and the results are presented for download. The service works with PDF files.
- Payment Standard for Web Apps Goes Live
A new payment card industry (PCI) standard for Web application firewalls and source code went into effect July 1. PCI Industry Data Security standard 6.6 gives merchants a framework to ensure that the point-of-sale information uploaded into browser-based applications is sound from "top to bottom," the organization's literature said.
- U Texas San Antonio To Deploy Wireless Outdoor Emergency Notifications
The University of Texas at San Antonio has selected Cooper Notification's Wireless Audio Visual Emergency System (WAVES) Mass Notification System (MNS) for its outdoor campus emergency notification system. Through WAVES campus public safety departments can broadcast targeted voice alerts via "Giant Voice" to students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
- Moraine Valley CC Revamps Administrative Systems
Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois has selected Datatel Colleague and ActiveCampus Portal software to replace a legacy administration system. A committee consisting of campus-wide representatives chose Datatel after an 18-month evaluation of administrative software systems.
- Project Wonderland: Good Avatars Make Good Neighbors
Sun Microsystems's Project Darkstar and the Wonderland Toolkit for building 3D spaces show why virtual reality is better for education than video conferencing. And Project Wonderland has announced its first education space.
- Sun, Stanford Working To Archive History
In May in San Francisco, experts from leading universities, libraries, and research institutions around the world met as part of an ongoing effort to address a pressing issue: archiving the world's history, right up to today.
