E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

HathiTrust: The Collection and Its Uses

May 6, 2013

John Wilkin and Sigrid Anderson Cordell provide an overview of HathiTrust and will discuss some uses of the materials in the repository. HathiTrust is the world's largest research libr…

The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow

March 27, 2013

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as t…

The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web

February 21, 2013

A healthy ecosystem for scholarly communication requires a continuum from independently distributed work to postpublication peer review. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, the Roy Rosenzwe…

Born Digital - and Accessible

January 28, 2013

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Larry Goldberg and Madeleine Rothberg of WGBH NCAM. The di…

From Standardized to Personalized: A Trajectory for Mobile Learning

August 6, 2012

Join the ELI’s Malcolm Brown, director, and Veronica Diaz, associate director, as they moderate this webinar with William Rankin. For almost five centuries, our educational structures and pract…

The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities

July 12, 2012

Copyright and fair use has long been a critical element of innovative technologies. On campus, we steadily create new works and use existing ones—and nearly all of them are automatically pr…

The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow

March 5, 2012

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as they…

eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?

January 24, 2012

What role, if any, should colleges and universities play in the shift from print to digital textbooks (eTexts) ? One perspective is that eTexts are a consumer transaction between a publisher …

What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit?

October 28, 2011

On September 12, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors filed suit against HathiTrust, …

Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education

October 10, 2011

The costs of higher education are soaring for a variety of reasons. A significant factor that will continue to drive costs over the next two decades is that the number of students trying to ente…