E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Teaching in an Age of Plenty

November 9, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012

The practice and profession of teaching developed in the presence of a great scarcity of knowledge. Ubiquitous information and ever more powerful search and knowledge engines have changed the pro…

ERO Podcast: Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen

September 5, 2012

In this podcast, we talk with Chief of Staff for the Khan Academy, Jessica Yuen. In our conversation, she discusses the Khan Academy's use of analytics, attitude toward affordability for stu…

7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing

March 8, 2011

The open educational resources model, including textbooks, has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-r…

Horizon Report 2010: Projects in E-Books, Open Content, Mobile Learning, and Augmented Reality

July 12, 2010

This web seminar includes speakers representing six projects featured in the latest Horizon Report . In this special one-and-a-half hour ELI webinar, you’ll be taken on a tour of their work …

FCC/U.S. Dept. of Ed. Highlight Drive for K-12 E-Textbooks

April 3, 2012

In his latest "DC News" post, my EDUCAUSE Policy colleague, Greg Haledjian, provided information about a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and U.S. Department of Educati…

Open Education Week Starts Today

March 5, 2012

The first-ever “ Open Education Week ” starts today and runs through Friday, March 10. Launched by the Open Courseware Consortium with the participation of nearly 100 colleges, unive…

The World Is Open: Now, WE ALL LEARN with Web Technology

January 21, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

In his book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education , Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at 10 technology trends that he calls educational openers. When combined, th…

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

September 16, 2008

Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the econ…

Video Vision

September 15, 2008

© 2008 Victor Edmonds. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). EDUCAUSE Re…

Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, A 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation

August 11, 2008

The National Science Foundation defines "cyberlearning" as "the use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning." The report of the NSF Task For…