Topic: Technology
Take Your Online Teaching to the Next Level
Whether you are teaching a blended course (where a significant portion of the course takes place online) or have been using your […]
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Corporatization and commercialization, Intellectual property, Libraries, Public policy, Teaching and learning, Technology
Copyright discourse in the academy: Values, policies, and technology
The university needs to appreciate better the intertwined relationship between values, policies, and technologies with respect to copyright issues.
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Living Publicly on Campus: Social Media and Its Discontents
There’s little point in adopting a reactionary approach to the pervasive use of social media on campus. Members of the university community are deciding how social media works on campus, and they will work through the problems as they arise.
READ MOREMobile Learning in the 21st Century
Cheap and ubiquitous technological resources have reshaped our geopolitical and economic realities, by providing individuals with almost instant access to the collective knowledge of humankind
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Cut and Paste Research
Research and shopping seem to be converging, as students go to their machines to do “research” at the web’s many info-malls.
READ MORETechnology Enhanced Meetings
As we move closer to the end of the academic year, many professors are also transitioning into the season of meetings. Instead of putting the tech tools that have become an essential part of university learning away, professors should consider using these resources outside of class. Just as many instructional technologies have been used to engage students, they can also be used before, during, and after faculty meetings to engage colleagues and make meetings more efficient and effective.
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Bridging the Digital Divide
A Non-Technical Approach to the Use of New Technology in Post-Secondary Teaching and Learning.
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Against a sea of troubles
Piracy has been a scourge from the earliest days of the printing press, but are today’s cures worse than the disease? A review essay of Adrian Johns’ Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Piracy has been a scourge from the earliest days of the printing press, but are today’s cures worse than the disease?
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Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Technology
Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.
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Corporatization and commercialization, International issues, Research and innovation, Technology, Universities and the academic mission
The entrepreneurial university
A look at some institutions are coping with having to balance their traditional commitment to learning, basic research and community outreach with a demanding technology transfer mission. Roger L. Geiger and Creso Sá, Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 2009)
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