It’s Friday…What Did You Learn This Week? 8/20/2010
August 20, 2010
It’s Friday, and time to share some quick things I learned this week:
- Educators are dreaming up some pretty creative ideas for using technology to free up more time for personal instruction in large intro courses;
- Advertisements are coming to an e-book near you, sooner rather than later;
- One management prof at Texas Tech replaced his “boring” textbook with a graphic novel and saw student success rates increase significantly;
- And finally, the University of Phoenix is once again under fire for recruitment practices.
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There were two interesting posts this weekend on the subject of used e-books, one by Nick Harkaway at The Bookseller and the other by Chris Meadows at TeleRead. The concept of used e-books is considered anathema by most publishers, and probably rightly so, as it would likely mean a significant decline in revenues and profits.
