More from the RIAA
InsideHigherEd.com reports that the music industry is engaging in something akin to preemptive strikes. The article Mysterious Multiplication of Copyright Complaints takes a look at the speculative...
View ArticleBlackboard to partner with Sakai
This from HigherEd.com:Blackboard, the dominant player in course management software, has the ability to inspire devotion and, for the more fervid open-source adherents, not a little contempt. So...
View Articleaccess delayed is access denied
InsideHigherEd.com reports that American Anthropology Association is making digital material free, if you can wait 35 years for the latest bits. The American Anthropological Association [is making] “a...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
And for those who are back in the classroom already, such as myself, happy new term!
View ArticleHamlet's Blackberry Review Review
Based on a National Journal essay from 2006, "Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal," a new book of the same name, with a different subtitle, examines our need to be connected and engaging in what...
View ArticleAnd you thought plagiarism detection was only for students
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus reported on July 12, 2010 that more than 80 academic journal publishers, including Elsevier and Springer, are are using plagiarism detection software...
View ArticleA little sanity in the file sharing wars?
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus reported today that "A federal judge has cut a Boston University student’s illegal file-sharing fine by 90 percent, declaring the original fee...
View ArticleJustice Department may hold websites to ADA standards
According to a report in the online Chronicle of Higher Education, The Justice Department "this week announced that it is considering revising ADA regulations 'to establish specific requirements for...
View ArticleIt's time to combat plagiarism!
The Wired Campus newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher Education asks, seeming yet again, "Should Colleges do More to Teach Students about Plagiarism?" My answers is, maybe the this is the wrong...
View Articlee-books coming of age?
The Wall Street Journal of August 20,2010 carries a story about start up Inkling's introduction of "four full-length interactive college textbooks . . . designed specifically for Apple's iPad." The...
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