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"Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium

February 15, 2008

Stephen G. Nichols tells of creating a digital library of manuscripts of the <i>Romance of the Rose</i>, the most popular vernacular French romance of the Middle Ages. The scholarly r…

"Crowdsourcing" a Textbook: 120 Student Authors Writing on a Wiki (Research-Based)

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Many instructors have experimented with student-authored wiki textbooks. Advantages include reading and evaluating primary literature and facilitating constructivist learning. We manage the peer-re…

"I'll Have What She's Having": Generating New Reference Questions by Blogging Old Ones

January 7, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

Increased off-site reference traffic has prompted the need for good tracking mechanisms, but why keep the subject of the reference question a secret? Why not use one researcher's question to a…

"Print" - sponsored by Juniper Networks & Qwest Communications

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

The quotation marks around the title word indicate the increasing sense of irony of the term associated with academic publishing. Other terms that qualify for the ironic grammatical tag include &qu…

"You Know, We Write an Awful Lot of Papers!": Liberal Arts College Students Talk About Their Education

January 1, 2003

In this presentation, I will share information about how liberal arts college students learn today and what they think about the use of technology and networked information in their classes. I will…

10 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Design Assignment: Guest Blog by Dave Underwood

January 23, 2013

This guest blog by talented author Dave Underwood  takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what NOT to do when creating multimedia assignments for students. As a media consultant, he has worked wit…

2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit

October 2, 2008

"Scholarly publishers are well aware that more and more readers and libraries want to get hold of monographs in electronic form. The trick has been how to deliver content digitally without g…

2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers

January 1, 2004

This report examines the "unbundling of content" from traditional containers (books, journals, CDs) and distribution methods (postal mail, resource sharing). As the boundaries blur betwee…

2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers

January 1, 2004

2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers returns to the subject of the Five-Year Information Format Trends report of 2003, driven by remarkable changes since its publication. The new…

2007 Horizon Report

January 1, 2007

The 2007 Horizon Report looks at six selected areas--"User-Created Content," "Social Networking," "Mobile Phones," "Virtual Worlds," "New Scholarship …