Showing posts with label NYTimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYTimes. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Changes in Educational Publishing: The Textbook in the 21st Century

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A repost from July 13, 2006.  A still relevant post regarding the evolution of the textbook.  As I have mentioned before, I believe educat...
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 ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

End of the Knowledge Network at the New York Times

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A short piece in Inside Higher Ed two weeks ago announced the quiet demise of the New York Times' foray into online education and learn...
Monday, June 25, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 26): AAUP Meeting, Summer Reading Lists, Magazines, The Guardian's Future +More

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Last week the Association of American University Presses held their annual conference in Chicago, (where I attended and made two presentati...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 45): The New A&R, Problem Biographies, Scan your Books, Education, Libraroes + More

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Changing the way music stars are made ( Economist ): David Joseph, who runs the British arm of Universal Music, says A&R men used to b...
Monday, October 17, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 42): Frankfurt, CS Forester, Martin Amis + More

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Exclaiming this is the time for start-ups the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded on Sunday with traffic slightly up and a continued expansion to ...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

MediaWeek (Vol 3, No 24): Freak Show, Penguin's Canadian Problem, Textbook Reinvention

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On the road with an economist. Steven Dubner and the Superfreakonomics show ( Observer ): It's bizarre to think that the crash might...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Who Wants to Pay for “Content”? - REPOST

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Repost Friday and this time from March 9, 2009 a repost that is still somewhat topical given the NYTimes announcement that they would implem...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

MediaWeek (Vol 2, No 40): Curating, Larsson, BooksEtc, Disney, Magazines

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Interesting article in Sunday's NYTimes about curating content in the retail sense. Some relevance to book retailing and publishing alt...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

MediaWeek (Vol 2, No 31): Education, Oxfam, e-Readers, Journals

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Some of these were on the twitter (@personanondata) this week. The NYTimes looks at digital content in schools and recognise it is going t...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

MediaWeek (Vol 2, No 20): Harpercollins, NYTimes, Long Tail,

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In the NY Observer this week Debbie Stier from Harpercollins and Harper Studio is asked about social and digital media ( Observer ): “Chan...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

MediaWeek (Vol 2, No 16): OCLC, Television, NYTimes

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OCLC gather bibliographic experts to discuss metadata needs and practices for publishers and libraries. From their summary press release ...