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Information Today August 22, 2011 |
Textbook Rental Firm Chegg to Add Etextbooks In addition to textbook rentals, Chegg has rapidly enhanced its services, offering a fully integrated experience with digital services, including homework help, course selection, and class notes.  |
Information Today August 24, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Cengage Learning Rents Textbooks, Re-Brands iChapters.com Net newbies such as BookRenter.com and Chegg offer used textbooks for rental over their websites.  |
Fast Company November 2010 Stephanie Schomer |
Chegg: Saving College Kids Money Through Textbook Rental Aayush Phumbhra is reforming the dysfunctional world of college textbooks by renting them to students nationwide.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Judy A. Serwatka |
Improving Student Performance in Distance Learning Courses This article concentrates on the problems encountered and the solutions developed while teaching two college networking courses in the distance learning format...  |
Information Today April 15, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
The Wild West of MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are the subject of many recent headlines. The issues cover everything from the future of higher education to using technology to deliver courses and textbooks on a global scale.  |
Information Today February 25, 2013 |
EdX Expands Internationally EdX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise, announced the international expansion of its X University Consortium with the addition of six new global higher education institutions.  |
The Motley Fool September 5, 2007 Katrina Chan |
Back to School: Textbooks for Sale Before you hit the books, hit the Internet. Hundreds of dollars a year can be saved by buying college textbooks and supplies online.  |
Information Today May 13, 2013 |
Coursera Announces Pilot Program With Publishers Coursera, a massive open online course provider, announced a pilot program with several of the top higher education publishers to expand the availability of their high-quality content and resources.  |
Information Today August 27, 2013 |
Chegg Unveils Updated Mobile App Chegg just released a redesigned version of its mobile app for etextbook reading. The app, which is available for Apple and Android devices, has more than 2.5 million guided solutions to help students.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Margaret Gagne & Morgan Shepherd |
A Comparison Between a Distance and a Traditional Graduate Accounting Class The increasing popularity of online courses naturally leads to a consideration of the effectiveness of these courses - particularly in comparison with on-campus courses. The purpose of this paper is to provide such a comparison for an introductory accounting MBA course...  |
Information Today October 1, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Google Gives MOOC Development a Major Push Google and edX announced a partnership to "jointly develop the edX open source learning platform, Open edX, and expand the availability of the Massive Open Online Course platform and its learning tools to individuals and institutions around the world."  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 Linda Cooper |
Online Courses - Tips for Making Them Work  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Peter E. Williams |
Will a Digital Textbook Replace Me, the Teacher? A number of excellent digital textbooks are beginning to surface, delivering information in an interesting and interactive manner to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. But, where does that leave educators?  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 W. Joy Lopez |
Content Delivery for a Virtual High School We used a variety of technology tools to develop a program that delivers core high school course material. These technology tools and delivery models had to align with the beliefs laid out by our team.  |
Information Today September 27, 2012 |
Elsevier to Provide Free Content Through edX Elsevier announced its plan to provide free content through edX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched in May.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries.  |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Podoll & Randle |
Building a Virtual High School...click by click South Dakota's Rapid City Academy finds out just what it takes to provide a diverse population of students the flexibility offered by online learning.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 Edward P. Kahler |
Maintaining the Integrity of a Web-Based Music Course Is it possible to adapt an existing, traditionally delivered music course to an Internet delivery modality? Could we maintain the high intellectual integrity of the course and deliver it via the Internet?  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2002 Colleen Brandao |
Teaching online: Harnessing Technology's Power at Florida Virtual School With modest beginnings in 1996, FLVS has evolved from an instructional experiment based on distance learning to a successful mainstream educational alternative serving the students of Florida and beyond...  |
Information Today August 30, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
MOOCs and the Changing Face of Higher Education Massive Open Online Courses can expand access to learning opportunities, eliminate many geographic and economic barriers to education, create more diverse learning communities, transform lifelong learning, and augment face-to-face and traditional education in new ways.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Mona Westhaver |
Learning to Learn: The Best Strategy for Overall Student Achievement State and local funding for schools is decreasing. Learning to learn -- helping students develop thinking skills, learning skills and, most importantly, a passion for learning -- is the solution that will have the most long-term and widespread impact.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2003 Sylvia Charp |
Engaging the Tech-Savvy Generation It's the job of every educator to use all technological resources available to keep students engaged in the classroom. But a true tech-savvy educator is continually learning from his or her students.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 Nancy M. Short |
Asynchronous Distance Education A Five Step Approach to Eliminate Online Problems Before They Happen  |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Sophia Asare |
Putting College Within Reach for Many Nonprofit programs provide intensive admissions-prep services for promising kids from low-income backgrounds.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2001 Linda W. Cooper |
Online and Traditional Computer Applications Classes With working adults occupying an increasingly large percentage of our college population and with greater numbers of students having computer and Internet experience prior to entering college, opportunities are being made to better meet their needs, interests and work schedules through online classes...  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Joshua D. Baron & Mercedes M. McKay |
Designing and Delivering an Online Course for K-12 Educators The design and delivery of a distance education course are complex undertakings. This is partly because the development process involves many interrelated elements that must work in unison to form a single system for learning...  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2005 Kandy Claybaugh |
Colorado Springs District Creates Digital School in Local Mall for 'Disenfranchised' Students The collaboration of the district, Adelphia Communications, and the Citadel Mall provides its roughly 140 students an opportunity to reconnect with the school environment and engage in self-directed learning.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Rushton Hurley |
Fine-Tuning an Online High School to Benefit At-Risk Students In late 2001, San Antonio, Texas, started a virtual school designed to give students a new environment in which to pursue their high school studies. The experience challenged those of us running the program to repeatedly revisit assumptions about learning and administration.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 |
On The Web Student performance enhancement and college prep service provider aims to make college a reality for every student... Web site offers a place for students to exchange their old textbooks for ones that they currently need... Teaching children about preventing injuries in the home... etc.  |
Information Today May 7, 2012 |
MIT and Harvard Launch a `Revolution in Education' Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world.  |
Salon.com December 15, 2000 Maura Kelly |
Stop the madness Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout...  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Anne Marie Urevick |
Philadelphia Students Gain Real-World Experience From Web and Graphics Design Curriculum The Cisco Networking Academy Program combines theoretical and applied learning to teach students how to build and maintain computer networks and design Web sites. These classes have created a successful learning environment where students arrive early, stay late and love to work.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Laura Grillo Abdelnour |
Bytes of Learning's CREATE Together CREATE Together from Bytes of Learning is a multimedia software program that combines creation, collaboration, communication, problem solving and publishing tools for all grade levels.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2003 Linda Cooper |
Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Online Courses Provide a Global Education Experience In an attempt to improve students' understanding of global issues, schools are seeking new ways to incorporate international education into their curriculum.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 William Wade |
Why I Teach Online While distance learning is not for everyone, the flexible education alternative provides teachers and students with many advantages.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2002 Tshepo Batane |
Technology and Student Collaboration A research project in one Botswana secondary school  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 Sue Shelton |
Breathing New Life into a Dead Language: Teaching Latin Online  |
InternetNews March 16, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Google to Take More Students For Summer of Code Originally set for 600 participants, Google is now planning on taking 800 for 2007. It marks the third year of the program that offers students and open source organizations cash grants for developing open source projects.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kirsti Aho |
Teaching Digital Communication to All Students From the primary level through college, students can be prepared to communicate more effectively by teaching them the whole communication process from planning the message all the way to testing for usability.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Margaret Bowerman |
Successful Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners Technology is the perfect tool for providing learners of all abilities the opportunity to achieve. Suggestions about using technology throughout the curriculum and student assessment are provided.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 Julie Reinhart, Tiffany Anderson & Joseph Slowinski |
Creating a Pre-Service Teachers' Virtual Space Issues in Design and Development of Cross-Country Collaboration...  |
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Douglas MacMillan |
Inkling Publishes Textbooks for iPads With his San Francisco startup, Matt MacInnis is making textbooks iPad-friendly - and teaching them tricks that can't be done in print.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2002 Kevin T. McNulty |
Fostering the Student-Centered Classroom Online There are many ways to maximize use of the Internet to benefit student instruction. On my classroom Web site I publish tutorials to assist with classroom instruction, and students use the site as a launchpad to research information...  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2008 John K. Waters |
How Geek Became Chic With budgets and staff stretched thin, schools are turning tech-savvy students into technology leaders and a popular, important source of IT support.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2001 Jonathan C. Basden |
Authentic Tasks as the Basis for Multimedia Design Curriculum Virtual reality project enables students to pursue their own interests and guide their own learning...  |
Information Today May 30, 2013 |
Ingram Expands Publisher Services With Life Print Program Ingram Content Group, Inc. announced the launch of its Life Print program, a comprehensive solution for publishers to manage the complete life cycle of print books.  |
Information Today June 3, 2013 |
IngramSpark Service Debuts Publish-on-Demand Platform This online publishing tool grants independent publishers easy-to-use, cost-effective access to Ingram's global distribution network for print and ebooks.  |
Information Today October 18, 2010 |
Ingram to Handle All Elements of Springer's U.S. Distribution Ingram will hold Springer's entire U.S. inventory and, as it sells down, Ingram will transition titles to print on demand when it makes economic sense. All fulfillment will come through Ingram.  |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Ingram to Create New Book Catalog Database, Drop Long-Standing Connection with Bowker Ingram Customer Systems, Inc. has announced that in early April it will release a comprehensive new book-title database to booksellers and libraries...  |