Showing posts with label The Economist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Economist. Show all posts
Monday, September 03, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 36) Education & Innovation, iTunes U, Pearson + More

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Kevin Carey of Washington Monthly takes a look at investments in the education technology space. (WM ): Last August, Marc Andreessen, the...
Monday, August 20, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 34): Copyright, Digital Public Library, Colleges & Big Data + More

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University of California at Berkeley professor Dr. Pamela Samuelson in The Chronicle from a few weeks ago on Copyright reform and the creati...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 33 ) The Cost of Higher Education in the US - Chronicle, Economist, Bain + More

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The problem with the cost of education in the US ( Economist) : A crisis in higher education has been brewing for years. Universities have...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 32): Team GB, Big Data on Campus, Libraries and eBooks, Amazon Daily Delivery + More

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First the important stuff:  TEAM GB ! From Andy Murray's gold to the men's lightweight four landing a dramatic silver, here are Br...
Monday, July 16, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 29): UK Frees Journal Articles, Amazon in Japan, Revising HigherEd, Blackboard Myths, Translations + More

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UK is about to open up academic publishing.  ( Guardian ): Though many academics will welcome the announcement, some scientists contact...
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...
Monday, April 30, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 18): Cloud Education, Navigating LBF, NYPL Rennovations, Pottermore + More

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Is the cloud the future to revolutionizing education?  Gordon Freedman in the Chronicle proposes some interesting ideas ( Chron ): The pro...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 17): Academic Publishing, Canadian Copyright, Linked Data + More

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I was in London all week where I had a terrific London Book Fair and met many new publishers and partners which accounts for the lack of pos...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 48): Orwell on Police Actions, Dickens and Economist Book Festival + More

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Conor Friedersdorf writing in The Atlantic asks What Orwell Can Teach us About OWS and Police Brutality In Burma, Orwell remembers, ever...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 37): Scholarly Publishing, Project Gutenberg, Literary Festivals, Lawsuits, + More

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The New York Times takes up the issue of "pricy" scholarly journals and leads with their view point ( NYT ): After decades of he...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 36): Amazon Digital Library, Piracy, Newspaper Disruption, Private Blackboard + More

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Jeff Trachtenberg of the WSJ reports that Amazon may be looking to launch a digital lending library for books. It's unclear how much ...