Month: October 2012
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Open Access and Scientific Publishing
Recently in honour of Open Access Week, PhD Comics posted a video (liked to and embedded below) explaining what open access means and why the scientific community should take notice. It very clearly lays out why open access is important to science, government, universities, and students. Enjoy, and see the post below this one for…
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Open (and FREE) Textbooks
The Open Education movement has many merits in terms of providing free resources to students and instructors from K-12 to post-secondary and graduate education -“open” in terms of no commercialization or publisher/company involvement. Open also means that it has been made available under the Creative Commons licensing in terms of sharing, repurposing, and using. This…
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How can I project the screen of my iPad in the classroom?
For the record: I am not advocating buying an iPad or any other product. These suggestions are based on support forums and have not been tested explicitly by myself or CIEL. There are a number of options for projecting the screen of your iPad, depending on the other hardware you have at your disposal…
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State of the Learning Management System Marketplace 2012
Source: The Delta Initiative – shared under a CC BY-ND license I always enjoy the Delta Initiative’s round up of what is going on in the learning environment market. The latest infographic shows the current market share for the major software producers of learning management systems. Most notable on this graphic for me: The returned growth of the home…