E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

E-Texts or Bust: Observations from the Internet2/EDUCAUSE E-Text Pilot

February 5, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

In 2012, Internet2 and EDUCAUSE sponsored an initiative to pilot the use of e-textbooks across multiple universities. Over 25 institutions are participating in the study, with each evaluating the…

Finding Your Pathway to E-Textbook Authoring

February 5, 2013

Making and sharing e-books has never been easier. Many tools are available, and many of them are free. The ability to author an electronic document that's portable, accessible on many platfo…

E-Textbook Opportunities and Decisions

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Institutions are faced with many options for dealing with e-textbooks. University of Wisconsin–Madison has participated in e-textbook pilots for two semesters and has developed a set of instituti…

Next-Generation Learning: How Do We Get There from Here?

February 4, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

What does tech-enabled next-generation learning mean to you, and what does it look like on your campus? What excites you most about the potential it offers? What is your greatest concern about if t…

Leveraging Open Technologies and Cross-Disciplinary Pollination to Transform Introductory Courses

February 4, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

It's hard to "flip" an 800-student course on your own. We will describe how our cross-disciplinary group of instructors and graduate student assistants across different disciplines…

Digital Popcorn: Making Media Better

February 14, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

The Popcorn.js framework works within HTML 5 and offers tools to enhance audio and video files embedded within webpages. We will discuss our initial efforts, trials, and tribulations in joining Pop…

Discovery in a Digital World

November 9, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

In the most effective teaching, students create new knowledge even as they learn. Digital environments possess remarkable capacities to foster this excitement of discovery among large, diverse, a…

Implementing Successful Strategies for a Video-on-Demand Digital Library Collection Deployment

November 7, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

This presentation will discuss strategies, solutions, and insights relevant to hosting originally created research and other intellectual data for a fully indexed VOD (video on demand) library di…

Teaching in an Age of Plenty

November 9, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

The practice and profession of teaching developed in the presence of a great scarcity of knowledge. Ubiquitous information and ever more powerful search and knowledge engines have changed the pro…

Enterprise Electronic Content Management

October 20, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference

This Constituent Group session will focus discussions on assessing the scope of information management issues, identify resources and initiatives, and develop an understanding of best practices on …