Students, faculty and staff all have a clear vision for the 21st century campus — it’s all about access and connections.
For students, the 21st century campus offers electronic access to all learning materials, including syllabi, textbooks, handouts and online grades. Professors at a modern campus use e-mail to communicate, and students have space online where they can chat, post and blog about coursework.
Julie Smith
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The Internet has surpassed newspapers as a primary way for Americans to get news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That makes the Internet the third most popular news platform overall, with many connected users taking advantage of nontraditional consumption methods such as social media postings, personalized news feeds, and getting their news on-the-go.
By Jackqui Cheng
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WCET has just opened the Call for Proposals for the 2010 conference in La Jolla, CA, November 11-13.
This is a great conference attracting people from all over the world. This year it’s in California – a great opportunity for us!
We are doing some interesting and innovative things on our campuses and this conference [...]
In a victory for textbook publishers, a German court has ruled that RapidShare, a file-trading Web site, must do more to stop the unauthorized swapping of some copyrighted books on its service.
The Landgericht in Hamburg, a district court, issued a preliminary ruling against RapidShare this month, prohibiting the company from making available certain copyrighted books on its site. The order took effect on February 17.
Six major publishers brought the legal action against RapidShare, and they specified a list of 148 titles that are frequently pirated on the site. Those are the works covered under the court order, and many of them are textbooks.
By Jeffrey R Young
Harvard University senior Drew Robb is so attached to his cellphone that he keeps it by his bedside at night and in his front jeans pocket every day. He uses the Apple iPhone to check email, text his friends and play games, pretty much for everything—except phone calls.
By Joseph De Avila
Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books?
In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
Professors will be able to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete individual paragraphs, equations or illustrations.
By Motoko Rich
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The student newspaper at Abilene Christian University isn’t waiting for iPads to hit the shelves before taking up the opportunity the device holds for print publications. The Optimist has developed its own app for the new platform. “We can’t wait until [the iPad] is adopted by a critical mass of people,” Professor Kenneth Pybus said. “We want to be up and running and there when they’re ready for us.”
By John P Mello Jr
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Overview | What are the elements of a scene? How does deconstructing scenes reveal meaning? In this lesson, students start to think like film directors by storyboarding an experience from their lives. They then examine the Times Movies feature “Anatomy of a Scene” and develop their own analyses of scenes from film and literature.
Materials | Computers with Internet access and a projector; preselected video clips from NYTimes.com; handouts
By Amanda Christy Brown and Holly Epstein Ojalvo
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter” (E.E. Cummings).
Paulette Sharp is a Masters prepared, clinical nurse specialist in chronic disease management. Humor as an educational technique and healing art has been her special interest for several years. She is certified in online teaching and learning and is earning her MS degree in [...]
Anne Nicolson is a grandmother and veteran teacher with Master of Arts in English and a Master of Liberal Studies in Judaic Studies. She currently teaches for Western Career College and was honored as PRIDE recipient (Professional Recognition of Integrity, Dedication and Excellence) by DeVry, Inc. in 2009. She is completing a Master of Science [...]