E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Sharing and Protecting Ideas and Knowledge in the 21st Century

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

How do the ideals of knowledge sharing and education intersect with market forces and modern technology? What is the tension between openness and traditional models of education? Where are the fric…

Open Content for Open Minds

November 1, 2011

Malcolm Brown, ELI director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, moderate this seminar with Judy Baker. Openly licensed educational content, commonly referred to as open educational resour…

Moving to Digital Course Content: The Importance of Access and Open Textbooks

September 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session

In Fall 2010 and Spring 2011, 508 students in Fall 10 and 483 students in Spring 11 registered using 1352 textbooks in 9 separate courses. Textbooks were adopted from Flat World Knowledge digital…

Dynamic Computer Lab Construction (Institutional Scope)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Georgia Southern University needed to be capable of deploying and updating software into labs throughout an academic term along with being able to monitor the use of the computers. To solve problem…

If You Give a Student a Computer: Managing the Growing Demand for Digital Learning Content

January 1, 2003

The advent of mainstream demand for digital learning materials in higher education portends significant impact on many institutional constituencies. Using the metaphor of Laura Joffe Numeroff'…

How (and Why) to Listen to "Heavy Metal": IMS, OKI and other standards and specification projects

January 1, 2003

This session will explain the role of technology standards and middleware in facilitating the use of technology in teaching and learning. The aim of the session is to highlight efforts under way to…