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…

Kindle Accessibility Concerns Continue

March 13, 2013

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) continues to raise concerns about the accessibility of Amazon's Kindle devices as well as its Kindle apps for other devices (e.g., the iPad) for pe…

Report of the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities

December 6, 2011

The Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities (the Commission) was authorized under the Higher Education Opportunity Act…

Frequently Asked Questions About the June 29, 2010, Dear Colleague Letter

May 26, 2011

The Department of Education has determined that this document is a “significant guidance document” under the Office of Management and Budget’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Pract…

Elaborating on Online Accessibility

May 27, 2011

The Department of Education elaborated on a 2010 letter urging college and university presidents to make sure that the “emerging technology” on their campuses squares with federal laws pro…

Cal State's Strong Push for Accessible Technology Gets Results

December 12, 2010

Over the past five years, Cal State has waged one of higher education's most aggressive campaigns for accessible technology. It has adopted stringent standards for vendors and employees. Alo…

Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers

February 24, 2010

After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion with both excitement and wariness. Excitement be…

New ELI 7 Things... Explores Personalized Digital Magazines

July 18, 2011

 Applications like Flipboard, Zite, RSS5000, and Taptu aggregate content from personal social media networks and other sources, presenting the information in a snappy magazine-style fo…

Mashups, Remixes, and Video Culture: Engaging the YouTube Generation in the Classroom

October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Undergraduate video creation at three institutions engages students from a campus-wide mashup contest to courses in several disciplines where videos replace research papers. New-media assignments h…

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…