I’m pleased to announce that Rob Reynolds, formerly of the Xplanation blog and now of the Next Is Now blog, will be joining the e-Literate cast of featured bloggers. Rob is an old hand in the textbook publishing business and somebody I have learned a lot from personally in terms of how technology is changing that […]
Cengage Learning: It Gets Better
I don’t always agree with my employer’s political stances, but this is one that makes me proud: Thanks to Jane Snyder for pointing this out to me.
My UnKeynote
NERCOMP is holding an unconference on the LMS in Worcester, MA on March 5th. I will be delivering the unkeynote on the unLMS. Since it is an unkeynote, I will tell the audience nothing important about the LMS, instead relying on them to have more of the answers than I do. In other words, it’s […]
Apple and Textbooks, Part 2: Is There a Class In This Text?
When Apple announced both the release of their iBooks 2 and upgrades to iTunes University, I was curious to see what kind of integration they had between the two. If you do a web search on the subject, you will find plenty of articles that tell you that iBooks textbooks “fully integrate with” iTunes U—but […]
Webinar on Textbooks
I just wanted to drop a quick note to point out that the always interesting Rob Reynolds will be running a webinar on the future of the textbook on Friday. Here are the deets: The Future of Digital Textbooks in U.S. Education (And What That Means for You) Date: Friday, February 10 Time: 1:00 CST […]
OER Funding: Ask the Right Questions
David Wiley writes: You have to admit that some of the things the publishers are working on are both cooler and better than almost everything that currently exists in the OER space. Can you name a single OER project that does assessment at all (and I don’t mean PDFs of quizzes)? Can you name one […]
When It Comes to Content, Say “Yes” to Wrappers But “No” to Containers
Scott Leslie has a good post up ruminating on the moving target of open textbooks which reminded me that I have long intended to write a follow-up to an exchange that he, I, and Rob Abel had in the comments section of a post a I wrote a while back. Scott lamented that the Washington […]