E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

We Love E-Books!

April 1, 2013

Carrie Rampp is Director of Library Services and Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. True confession: I really love e-books. They are so conven…

Technology Enhancement Tools in an Undergraduate Biology Course

December 10, 2012

Key Takeaways This single-class study sought to evaluate technology-enhanced student engagement by comparing the experiences of students using only an e-textbook with the exper…

Using Multi-Node Tools for Student Success in Non-Major Science Classes

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways General biology challenges many first-year students with a new technical language, foreign concepts and massive amounts of content, threatening their progress toward …

A Study of Four Textbook Distribution Models

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways In preparation for campus-wide e-text adoption , Daytona State College completed a two-year comparative study of four textbook distribution models : print purch…

Perceptions of Presentation Capture in Counselor Education

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways Survey results from students and faculty at Emporia State University indicate that lecture/presentation capture proved effective when repurposed for various Couns…

Beyond the Custodial: How a Campus Multimedia Lab Became Vital

September 27, 2011

Key Takeaways A visualization group facing a changing need for its services reinvented itself as a multimedia lab to serve a wider audience with a growing demand for digital c…

Making the Jump: Digital Publishing and Collaboration

September 27, 2011

Key Takeaways Peer-reviewed online journal TheJUMP showcases undergraduate multimedia scholarship produced in courses around the globe. Published media projects are acco…

[Mobile Perspectives: On e-books] E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education

April 7, 2011

David McCarthy ( dmccarthy@book.com ) is Director of Product Management for Digital Education at Barnes & Noble. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at…

Digital Texts and the Future of Education: Why Books?

March 29, 2011

Key Takeaways Students have expectations for interactivity and connectedness when they use digital devices, yet these expectations are frequently unmet when using most digital tex…

Mobile Teaching Versus Mobile Learning

March 29, 2011

Key Takeaways Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mob…