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What’s new on my iPad: Guidebook Conference App

October 1, 2013

I have recently downloaded the app ‘Guidebook’ on my iPad to plan my conference visit to ISSOTL 2013 in Raleigh this week. The app provides the conference schedule, a map of the convention center, a list of presenters, a photo … Read more

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UNC Chapel Hill meets coursera: MOOC on Metadata

September 5, 2013

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a hotly debated trend: The New York Times declared 2012 to be “The Year of the MOOC”. While sociology Professor Mitchell Duneier recently stopped offering his content on the MOOC platform Coursera over licensing … Read more

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Conference Review: Elon 2012

August 27, 2012

The annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon is a regional event that attracts professors, instructional designers, postdocs and other academic personnel from North Carolina colleges and universities  The 9th edition of this free, one-day conference took place on August … Read more

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Kindle Plugin for CS 6 (beta)

August 7, 2012

A beta plugin that allows to publish directly from Adobe Indesign to Kindle has been released in July 2012. “Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign® converts the InDesign source content to a single file which supports both KF8 and Mobi formats … Read more

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Creative Commons Licence 4.0 – 2nd draft

August 7, 2012

The 2nd draft of the new creative commons license (version 4.0) was released on August 1st and is open for public comment. From the creative commons Web site: “Since CC’s launch in 2002, it has versioned its core license suite … Read more

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Digital Scholarship: OER Collection

August 1, 2012

This Web site is a nice example on how to mold different open educational resources into one coherent collection that presents the learner with a concise, coherent and well structured curriculum. Many OER repositories and collections aim for a comprehensive … Read more

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