The Chronicle of Higher Education posted an interesting article yesterday discussing the benefit and logic of digital textbooks. It presents the possibility to read identical material simultaneously rather than purchasing separate expensive copies of the very same thing. We are interested in your comments!
Digital Textbooks Call for New Business Models
by David Wiley
July 8, 2009
In the 1997 [...]
The other day one of the people in higher ed I follow on Twitter, Jim Groom from the University of Mary Washington, posted a tweet saying they had a webcast of the keynote speaker for their Faculty Academy, James Boyle, online. I checked it out and was really impressed with what he had to say. [...]
Last week A List Apart, an online magazine for professionals in the web industry, has two excellent articles about the challenges in getting colleges and universities nationwide offer curriculum relevant in Web development and design. Higher education is simply not meeting the needs of the industry. Mark Greenfield, director of the Office of Web Services [...]
