I’ve deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter. These are serious times. I think the world has radically changed overnight, and roughly...
Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle “The Higher Education We Deserve”. To reach the top 10, EDUCAUSE members were ...
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Did you feel a great disturbance in the open source force last week? At noon on Friday in a conference call with members of the Kuali community, the Kuali F...
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June 10, 2011 – AT&T Executive Education Conference Center, Austin, Texas, United States
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> School is out and the summer heat has...
If it is Thursday it must mean it is time for another in this series of Thursday Threads posts. This week there are an abundance of things that could fall i...
OhioLINK, my employer, is seeking nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director. The search is being conducted with the assistance of ...
This week I was at the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability annual conference conference at the Ohio State University and was reminded ...
Joshua Kim, senior learning technologist and an adjunct in sociology at Dartmouth College, recently had a series of posts about working with software vendors...
[caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignright" width="216" caption="QR-Code pointing to DLTJ"][/caption] This morning I attended a presentation on "Using Q...
For those interested and involved with distance and technology enhanced learning or have attended one of the past ODCE/LLT higher education conferences, you'...
The theme of the 2010 Ohio Educational Technology Conference, P-20 Conversations: Shaping a Path for the 21st Century Student, addresses the need to provide ...
Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, posted a pair of messages on his corporate blog that it is worth calling attention to regarding the OLE Pro...
The fact that the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) -- otherwise known as HEOA -- was signed into law last year is probably not big news ...
I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at the Ohio Student Success Assessment Summit this morning on the topic of textbooks and open educational resourc...
The sand is really starting to shift under the traditional textbook providers as the open course content movement shows signs of, well, movement. Already th...
Late last month, the University of Pittsburgh Press and Library System announced a joint effort to revive 500 titles with online and print-on demand access. ...
Dr. Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine, will give the keynote address “Mediated Culture: Tal...
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. Pre-conference workshop descriptions [PDF] and the preliminary program [PDF] as well as the registration for...
One of the very relevant aspects of the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement to libraries is the provision that allows for free public access to the full ...
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. University System of Ohio Learning, Libraries and Technology Conference Pre-conference Workshops: March 1, ...
Earlier this week U.S. Senate passed its own version of the "College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007" (H.R.4137 to amend and extend the Higher Educ...
Colorado Community College System (CCCS) signed an agreement with Pearson Education for flat-rate access to Pearson textbook content online. News of this co...
Who knew the college textbook marketplace could be so complex? The agents in this ecosystem and their interests are so intertwined that as a whole it poses ...
This morning's Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog has a story with the title "Should Colleges Sell Ads to Pay for New Technology?" that links to...
There has been an increasing focus on the cost of textbooks in the mainstream media this year, and I don't think it is the case that I'm just becoming more s...
Applications are invited for two positions at OhioLINK: an Assistant Director of Library Systems -- User Services Development and an Assistant Director of E...
At the Ohio Digital Commons for Education conference yesterday I had the privilege of chairing a panel for a session called "Teaching with Digital Texts: Com...
Stu Hicks, one of OhioLINK's systems engineers, told the OhioLINK staff last night about a new program at Microsoft called DreamSpark. Through this program,...
The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article today [subscription required] about legislation pending on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives th...
The preliminary program [PDF] and conference registration for the 2008 Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE) Conference is now available. As a member of...
Richard Akerman's recent post highlighting SOA resources at Educause reminded me about the aggregation point on Educause Connect for SOA resources. I'm ass...
At the Academic Library Association of Ohio meeting last week, I saw a presentation by John Burke, director of the library at Miami University – Middle...
Spotted in the Chronicle of Higher Education Online this morning is mention of two lectures by Wendy Seltzer that will happen today on the topic of copyright...
As others have noted, there is now an online petition in support of public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The text of the petition...
A few months back I referred to a project that used video to present information about accessibility needs in the classroom. That article was about how diff...
This is a summary of a presentation by James L. Hilton, Vice President and CIO of University of Virginia, at the opening keynote session of Open Repositories...
Join George Siemens — a leading theorist on the implications of technology and societal trends on learning and knowledge — to examine how changi...
ODCE 2007: The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology conference is set for March 4-6, 2007. You can view the preliminary program and pre-conferen...
DLTJ is now listed...how about your blog? Calling All Academic Librarian Bloggers A few months ago I came across a just developing project of Henry Farrell, ...
Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activitie...
At any point in time, there is a college IT director trying to determine whether to upgrade, migrate away from, or stay the course with some software package...