E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Moving Video Beyond Content Delivery: A Tool for Annotating Online Video

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Instructors are increasingly using web-delivered video to capture performances in courses. To facilitate assessment of recorded performances, Academic Technology Services at the University of Minne…

Why Lakoff still matters: Framing the debate on copyright law and digital publishing

June 1, 2009

In 2004, linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff popularized the idea of using metaphors and “frames” to promote progressive political issues. Although his theories have since been cri…

Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education

August 18, 2008

Ithaka's 2006 survey of faculty members sought to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects.  This study afford…

The Virtual Burnham Initiative as a Collaborative Project of, by, and for the Community

March 18, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

Led by Lake Forest College, Chicago-area academic, cultural, and civic institutions are developing VBI, the Virtual Burnham Initiative, with 3D models re-creating the 1909 Plan of Chicago housed on…

A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities

February 27, 2007

This report examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact and explores future opportunities.  Central to the report …

JSTOR Amicus Brief

October 18, 2007

EDUCAUSE joined a broad coalition in filing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief on behalf of the National Geographic Society which seeks permission to reproduce a print collective work in el…

Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting

January 1, 2007

A detalied report of the results of the meeting of OAI-ORE Technical Committee describing features and requirements of the ORE model and its context in the Web Architecture. …

Libraries, Licensing and the Challenge of Stewardship

January 1, 2006

Stewardship has always figured predominantly in the mission of libraries. This paper discusses major findings and implications of a study of licensing in U.S. academic libraries. The data suggests …

The Valley of the Shadow: Scholarship in the Digital World

January 1, 2004

The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology was created to match motivated humanists with broad-minded computer scientists to create new tools for understanding the record o…

E-resources for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - A British Academy Policy Review

January 1, 2005

Information and communications technology is having a major impact in the form of, and access to, research resources. The Academy has consulted national and representative bodies, and individual re…