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‘Scholarship in the Digital Age’

November 14, 2007

"It’s hard to meet academics these days whose work hasn’t been changed by the Internet. But even if everyone knows that the world of scholarship has changed, it’s not always clear just…

You Can't Take It with You: Extending the Usefulness of Your Digital Media Resources to the Land-Grant Community

January 1, 2002

LGMedia is a Web-based digital asset management system that allows faculty at participating institutions to upload, store, and manage individual digital resources and share those same resources wit…

Workshop 02A - Look Here! Using Visual Media to Teach Critical Thinking

January 22, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007

Current and future generations of learners are coming into our classrooms with strong visual skills. This workshop will focus on using these skills in student assignments as a means to teach critic…

Without a Special Object of Worship: The Digital Book

January 1, 1997

"The artist is to show all this through the art of colors as in a book that had a tongue to speak with. For the silent image from the walls where it is seen by all, and there it renders the gr…

Winds of Change: Charting the Course for IT in the Twenty-First Century

October 19, 2007

© 2007 Brian L. Hawkins. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ ). …

Will Books Become the Dumb Medium?

January 1, 1998

Get ready for a new and creative way to deliver knowledge. Get ready for a new and creative way to deliver knowledge. …

Wikipedia and Academia, Friends at Last: Curricular Initiatives in Higher Education

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Last January marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia, a milestone that finds the open-access encyclopedia as the top-ranked, noncommercial site in the world. Wikipedia has had an impact that is p…

Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content

January 27, 2009

Educators have been searching for ways to modularize and share educational content since the inception of online learning. However, for reasons both cultural and technological, the academic commu…

Why Study Users? An Environmental Scan of Use and Users in the Humanities and Social Sciences

January 23, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007

A "build it and they will come" approach to many university digitization initiatives has precluded systematic investigations of the actual demand for these resources. This session will …

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…