E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

To Maus or Not to Maus: Technically, That Is the Question

May 6, 2013

Key Takeaways What should a Maus book owner do when he can't access the multiple copies he owns on all his various devices, including the newest, an iPad ? In …

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…

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care

February 26, 2013

Key Takeaways Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative. In the roughly 10 years since, OERs hav…

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…

The eGranary Digital Library

October 3, 2012

Key Takeaways Many students in the developing world have little to no access to the Internet and its wealth of educational resources. The eGranary Digital Library provides m…

The New Supply Chain and Its Implications for Books in Libraries

September 5, 2012

Joseph J. Esposito is an independent management consultant. Kizer Walker is Director of Collection Development at Cornell University Library. Terry Ehling is Associate Director, Project …

E-Content: Opportunity and Risk

September 5, 2012

Shel Waggener is Senior Vice President of Internet2. The debate is over: students are asking for digital now, this semester. It isn't as if we didn't know the change was coming.…

Five New Paradigms for Science and an Introduction to DataONE

March 21, 2012

William Michener ( wmichene@unm.edu ) is Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico. He is Project Director for Data Obser…

Cool and Credible Web Video: Old Rules, No Rules, or New Rules?

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways Producers of web-video instruction need to negotiate old and new rules of video grammar to remain credible (to the traditional video grammar) as they also stri…

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 …