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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Too Much Reading? Try Listening Instead
For most college students, there’s so much reading, and so little time.
California State University-Dominguez Hills is trying to make students’ lives easier by turning some of that reading into listening. About a year ago, a library administrator was tinkering with text-enlarging software, which makes it easier for visually impaired students [...]
U. of Texas System Signs Up With Password-Streamlining Service
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009U. of Texas System Signs Up With Password-Streamlining Service
For more than two years, the University of Texas system figured its students and faculty members could handle having multiple usernames and passwords. Not anymore.
After initially refusing in 2007, the Texas system has agreed to join a growing number of institutions in the InCommon Federation. InCommon is [...]
Barnes & Noble Says Nook Reader Is Not Ideal for E-Textbooks
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Barnes & Noble Says Nook Reader Is Not Ideal for E-Textbooks
Barnes & Noble says its Nook e-book device, to be released by the end of the month, was not built with college students in mind.
“Nook is not designed to be a textbook reader,” said Jade Roth, the company’s vice president of books. “Nook is really [...]
The Computer Stole My Homework — and Sold It Through an Essay Mill
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009The Computer Stole My Homework — and Sold It Through an Essay Mill
Without her knowing it, a paper that Melinda Riebolt co-wrote while getting her M.B.A. was stolen and put up for sale. And, according to an article that USA Today reported last week, that same scenario has played out many times before.
The article discusses [...]
Hackers Strike Climate-Research Center, Hoping to Change the Debate
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Hackers Strike Climate-Research Center, Hoping to Change the Debate
More than 1,700 private e-mail messages were illegally nabbed from a university-based climate-science lab by computer hackers, with the apparent goal of discrediting the authors’ research on global warming just days before a major climate summit begins.
The incident is an unusual one. Though data breaches happen almost [...]
New Group Encourages Colleges to Start Programs in ‘Web Science’
Saturday, November 21st, 2009New Group Encourages Colleges to Start Programs in ‘Web Science’
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, announced a new nonprofit group last week to promote the study of “Web science,” arguing that his creation deserves its own specific research focus.
The group, Web Science Trust, has set up a Wiki where universities offering Web-science [...]
Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online
Doctoral students spend years on their dissertations. Too bad the results of their hard work often end up in a cardboard box in a dark corner of a library.
Now Stanford University doctoral students will be able to store their dissertations in a digital repository instead of submitting several [...]
Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online
Doctoral students spend years on their dissertations. Too bad the results of their hard work often end up in a cardboard box in a dark corner of a library.
Now Stanford University doctoral students will be able to store their dissertations in a digital repository instead of submitting several [...]
Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
Leslie Whitaker, a guest blogger for Wired Campus, is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Previously she worked as a reporter for Time magazine.
My first experience with blogging’s potential as a teaching tool occurred last week. I am teaching a class on blogs [...]
Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
Leslie Whitaker, a guest blogger for Wired Campus, is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Previously she worked as a reporter for Time magazine.
My first experience with blogging’s potential as a teaching tool occurred last week. I am teaching a class on blogs [...]