Showing posts with label MOOC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOOC. Show all posts
Monday, December 09, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 49): The pdf, French Publishing, Web News Traffic, MOOC Myths, Aftrica Reading

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Can Scholarly Publishing Evolve Beyond the PDF? From John Wiley. French authors can't get a break ( BBC ): "I often joke th...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 30): Colbert Mocks MOOCs, Private Eye, Barnes & Noble + More

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Steven Colbert interviewed Anant Agarwal the President of edX, who explains the reason for offering free university courses online. Steven...
Monday, July 22, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 29): MOOCs again, Dr. Who, Fiction in Business, 1970s NYC, Flipping the class.

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The Economist on MOOC's The industry has similar network economics to Amazon, eBay and Google, says Ms Koller, in that “content produ...
Monday, June 17, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 24): Professor copyright, Springer Digital, Chorus, Journalistic Women?

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Bucking for a fight, the head of the AAU Professors wants to protect professorial copyright on campus ( CHEd) : The group's effort to m...
Monday, May 06, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 18): Performance Reading; eBook Lending and Retail; eBooks and Libraries; Scholarly Publishing and Truth + more

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Interesting experiment reported in the NYTimes about a performance art project undertaken at NYU: Regular patrons hardly seemed to notice ...
Monday, April 15, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 15): Digital Minds, Mendeley, Cal State Edx, Le Carre, + More

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Fun to experiment - View this in Flipboard: http://flip.it/GoiH1 From the digital minds pre-conference at London Book Fair over the weeken...
Monday, March 18, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 11): Phoenix Flames Out, Pompeii Exhibit, Springer, MOOCs + More

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The Boston Phoenix closed down last week. ( CJR ): But nobody was expecting the guillotine. I certainly wasn’t. As a longtime Phoenix read...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 4): Open Access UK, Tapscott on MOOCs, Personal Data Ownership +More

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The fight over open access in the UK has been joined by David Willets, the governments Universities Ministers proclamation that all publicly...
Monday, December 10, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 50): MOOC Business Model, Popova Profile, Tim Cook, Printing 15th Century + More,

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Wondering where the business model is for MOOCs? Some providers are now charging for access to student data ( Chronicle ): On Tuesday, Cou...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

MOOCs, MOOCs and more MOOCs

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Short on conclusions (but then this is all quite new) the Education section of the Times this weekend gushed about those Massive Open Online...
Monday, October 22, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 44): McGraw Hill Education, Pearson Acquires, Open Access, TIme Mag's Education + More

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Brian Kibby, President of McGraw Hill Higher Education interviewed in Inside Higher Ed Question 4: It seems to me that in your position a...
Monday, July 23, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 30); MOOCs, Online Higher Ed Courses, Library Ideas, Research Needs,

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Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are really getting some people excited and the sheer numbers are amazing - although is this a fad and ...