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U. of South Florida Professors Try ‘University of Reddit’ to Put Courses Online
The social-news site Reddit has slowly grown a spin-off ”university” where anyone can offer free courses, and two professors at University of South Florida’s Honors College are trying the system to...
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Bulk-Purchasing E-Textbook Experiment Expands to More Colleges
An experimental business model for delivering e-textbooks is expanding, with some adjustments, to 26 colleges and universities this fall. The institutions will participate in a pilot project in which...
View ArticlePublishers Will Appeal E-Reserves Decision That Favored Georgia State U.
The publisher plaintiffs who accused Georgia State University of copyright infringement in a lawsuit over course e-reserves aren’t happy with the outcome of that case. On Monday they said they would...
View ArticleFlat World Knowledge to Drop Free Access to Textbooks
Sometimes free costs too much. As of January 1, 2013, Flat World Knowledge, which used to describe itself as the world’s largest publisher of free and open textbooks online, will no longer offer...
View ArticlePearson Project Will Let Professors Mix Free and Paid Content in E-Textbooks
Pearson, a major textbook publisher, continued its push into digital education on Monday by introducing a service that allows instructors to create e-textbooks using open-access content and Pearson...
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The Real Revolution Is Openness, Clay Shirky Tells Tech Leaders
Denver — Clay Shirky is one of the country’s most prominent Internet thinkers—“a spiritual guide to the wired set,” as The Chronicle Review put it in a 2010 profile of him. In his latest book,...
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Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits
Denver — Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too. CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big...
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Call for Nominations: Top Tech Innovators in Higher Education
’Tis the season to reflect on the biggest trends in technology. Rather than looking back, though, we’re thinking about emerging leaders and the ideas they’re advocating. In 2013 we plan to publish...
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10 Hottest Ed-Tech Stories of 2012
Articles about how free online courses, or MOOCs, could disrupt higher education dominated the headlines last year here at the Wired Campus blog, and they were the most popular with readers as well....
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Free-Textbook Group Will Sell Its E-Books on Chegg, for a Small Fee
Some producers of free e-textbooks have had trouble persuading professors to adopt them. So one backer of “open-source textbooks” has decided to sell its titles on Chegg, an online textbook retailer,...
View ArticleEdwin Mellen Press Sues University Librarian for Libel
In September 2010, Dale Askey, now a librarian at McMaster University, in Ontario, published a blog post titled “The Curious Case of Edwin Mellen Press,” in which he called the Edwin Mellen Press “a...
View ArticleAmidst a ‘Revolution,’ Publishers Are Told, Know Your ‘End Users’
Washington — Scholarly publishers that want to flourish in the 21st century can’t just keep producing content and selling it to customers. They have to understand how those “end users” work and come up...
View ArticleFree-Textbook Company Rewrites Its Content Following Publishers’ Lawsuit
A free-textbook company that was sued last year by three major textbook publishers has now rewritten the content it was accused of stealing. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education...
View ArticleOpen-Education Company Helps Develop Textbook-Free Associate Degree
Universities and foundations have poured more than $100-million into creating open-education materials. But according to David Wiley, an open-education advocate for 15 years, faculty members and...
View ArticleAmerican Anthropological Assn. Will Experiment With Open Access
The American Anthropological Association publishes more than 20 journals. None is open access. The public currently has to wait 35 years after publication to have free access to articles, according to...
View ArticleJournal’s Editorial Board Resigns in Protest of Publisher’s Policy Toward...
The editor and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration have resigned in response to a conflict with the journal’s publisher over an author agreement that they say is “too...
View ArticleEdwin Mellen Press Threatens to Sue Society for Scholarly Publishing
The Society for Scholarly Publishing has removed two blog posts about a legal battle between a scholarly publisher and a librarian after a lawyer representing the publisher threatened to sue the...
View ArticlePearson Acquires Learning Catalytics, a Cloud-Based Assessment System
Pearson, the publishing and education giant, announced on Monday that it had acquired Learning Catalytics, a cloud-based assessment system created by three Harvard University educators. The acquisition...
View ArticlePublishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research
A group of scholarly publishers is proposing a publisher-run partnership to make it easier for agencies and researchers to comply with the federal government’s new open-access policy. Called Chorus—the...
View ArticleBig Ideas and a ‘Microrant’ for University Presses
At the Association of American University Presses’ annual meeting in Boston last week, a plenary session tackled “Three Big Ideas in Publishing,” including copyright, public intellectuals, and...
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