YUDU Offers Alternative Model For Educational Digital Content
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A new publishing ecosystem is emerging that includes among its participants O'Reilly Media, Pearson, Safari Books, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, and Liberty Media. This new ecosystem may come to ... Delete the scoop?
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Will massive open online courses (MOOCs) disrupt higher education? With recent announcements, the potential seems to be growing. Continue reading » Delete the scoop?
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Thinking of self-publishing? Don't bother, if you're not prepared to take these steps.
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It seems that it doesn't matter how good a self-published book is, if you can't or won't get out there and sell it, self-publishing is futile. Delete the scoop?
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Infographic: A Roadmap to Online Learning was created by Angela Goldman. I really like this infographic because it is straight forward, with a lot of details, and valuable advices such as: Create a Business PlanDesignate a LeaderConvene a Task ForceCreate Policies and Practices Geared Toward AccreditationPilot An Online CourseBe Prepared to Launch with High-Quality Content.Delete the scoop?
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When Joe Wikert and I first began talking about doing a survey of readers’ book-buying habits, I had something specific in mind. While every day brings news of another...
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Print books will only survive if the infrastructure that supports them survives - that's print publishers and bookshops. This author takes it one step further. He seems to be speculating that a significant proportion of book sales result from browsing in booksops, even when the sale is made on-line. He states "Let’s be careful to describe this problem properly: the challenge to traditional publishers is not the switch from print to digital books but the loss of the physical retail discovery channels, which online bookselling, whether of print or ebooks, makes possible." Delete the scoop?
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Naomi Frost is suing menswear giant Lowes for printing her photograph on thousands of T-shirts without her permission.
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Tricky business, this copyright stuff. Delete the scoop?
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I keep saying that the culture is shifting and we need to be thinking about much more than print to digital. We need to understand the new culture and for those who make money out of print, we need to understand the implications of this for the new business models.
Rupert Murdoch is struggling with how to monetise on-line newspapers. Publishers are struggling to maintain control over on-line materials so that user only get what they pay for. Maybe both are approaching this new technology wrongly.
We are seeing a massive shift in the culture - a shift to giving stuff away, and then asking the good people to pay once in a while as a thankyou. Can this work as a business model? Only time will tell. Delete the scoop?
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YUDU Offers Alternative Model For Educational Digital Content
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In a conversation on LinkedIn, we have been talking about how publishers make the transition from delivering quality content through print media, to delivering it through digital media. We don't yet know the answer, but the growth of this type of platform might indicate that we have to go beyond the current book design to multi-media books.
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The Alternative Education Resource Organization is the primary source of information for those looking for, starting, or researching education alternatives, democratic education, homeschooling, unschooling, Montessori, Waldorf and other forms of...
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We have a curious conundrum. Will the move to digital - leading edge technology - educational products increase the level of sameness of the educational process, or free it? Unfortunately with many of the moves to mega publishers, mega universities, mega schools, with highly controlled learning management systems, I fear that the boy who walked on his hands cannot be catered for. Even though mega systems can allow different pathways within the given parameters, they cannot allow for true difference - for the student who is STARTING from a different point and who wants to EXIT at a different point from the mainstream population.
Only a human being, a teacher with empathy, who "gets" where the student is coming from, and who is able to allow the student to tread their own path, can actually enable difference.
More technology choice may result in less educational choice. Delete the scoop?
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As one of the first mass produced industrial artifacts the book remains a solid cultural signifier of stability. That aura is pretty strong and attractive and makes it pretty...
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What technology will deliver it is anyone's guess, but this is the future. Delete the scoop?
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Philadelphia Inquirer Emerging trend toward bookless libraries in a digital age Philadelphia Inquirer It could be they are simply dated and unappealing to today's high school students, or it could be because they are, well, books in an age of...
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There are at least two different digital pathways when it comes to digital information, the simplest is that of the book, which is delivered digitally in its current form and looks just like a book. Novels are digitised this way.The other pathway, more suited to information than stories, is where information is stored "flat" the way it is on wikipedia, and the reader runs a search to find the information they want to read. Which is happening more in the library space? Delete the scoop?
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Does eLearning kill creativity? Bring on the eLearning revolution! What do you believe about open-source learning? What eLearning developers can learn from kids? Would you teach at the 100,000 student classroom? Via miracletrain Delete the scoop?
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WBUR Research posted online to honor digital activist Swartz Houston Chronicle San Francisco — The suicide of hacker and digital activist Aaron Swartz has prompted academics from around the globe to post their research online for free, and led the...
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There is certainly a cultural shift underway - where it will end, who knows. Delete the scoop?
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Digital Book World
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Copyright is an issue in both directions, Publishers either deliberately or inadvertently breaching copyright themselves, and perhaps more importantly, becoming this victims of digital piracy. We normally think of digital rights management as something done digitally, but here is another approach that, if we believe the article, seems to be working. Delete the scoop?
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Digital Book World Bridging the Divide Between Print and Digital: Ebook Production Resources Digital Book World Even though digital book design might be a new skill to production managers and print book designers, anyone who wants to learn how to...
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Whilst this article makes some very valid points about good protocols around tagging content for re-usability, I am suspecting that if we imagine a digital book is an InDesign book exported to a glorified PDF file, we might be in for a shock. My suspicion is that the digital space will both permit and force a change in the way we actually organise information and aggregate different types of information sources. The book has gone from simple text to an aggregation of text and images, but now we are looking at an aggregation of text, images and just about any other form of multi-media.
Will the changes be merely cosmetic or will the actual process of information transfer change requiring a corresponding change in information delivery? Delete the scoop?
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In a conversation on LinkedIn, we have been talking about how publishers make the transition from delivering quality content through print media, to delivering it through digital media. We don't yet know the answer, but the growth of this type of platform might indicate that we have to go beyond the current book design to multi-media books.
See the discussion here:
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