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…

Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey

September 22, 2011

Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus.  This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries . To learn whether…

Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery

January 26, 2012

"The RIN, the Institute of Physics (IOP), Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have recently published a set of case studies which pr…

A Study of Four Textbook Distribution Models

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways In preparation for campus-wide e-text adoption , Daytona State College completed a two-year comparative study of four textbook distribution models : print purch…

Perceptions of Presentation Capture in Counselor Education

December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways Survey results from students and faculty at Emporia State University indicate that lecture/presentation capture proved effective when repurposed for various Couns…

7 Things You Should Know About WordPress

September 2, 2011

WordPress is an open-source web application that is fundamentally a tool for publishing content , and a broad array of colleges and universities have made use of WordPress and encouraged its …

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…

[Mobile Perspectives: On e-books] E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education

April 7, 2011

David McCarthy ( dmccarthy@book.com ) is Director of Product Management for Digital Education at Barnes & Noble. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at…

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…

7 Things You Should Know About iPad Apps for Learning

February 9, 2011

Applications designed for the iPad offer interactive content that takes advantage of touch-screen navigation. The iPad combines robust computational functionality with a screen large enough to …