On 05/10/2010,
in blogs / blogging, chemistry, content development, lecture capture, physics, tablets,
by Daniel Christian
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On 05/10/2010,
in Using teams, adjunct faculty, business side of he, change, changing business models, content development, content repositories, digital textbooks, disruption, e-readers, entrepreneurship, faculty, game-changing environment, higher education, innovation, publishing,
by Daniel Christian
Earn more, charge less
He also spends less money publishing them. With his original textbook, he printed 3,000 copies and had to store them, so he didn’t break even for a while. That’s not the case with creating e-textbooks.
“You don’t have to have a bunch of books laying around, you don’t have to have the initial startup costs,” Chamberlain said, “and then you can send that savings on back to the students.”
For the past five years, Florida State College at Jacksonville has been driving down the cost of textbooks for its students through the SIRIUS initiative. SIRIUS brings together between 50 and 75 faculty members to create course material and textbooks for classes they’re qualified to teach, said Chief Operations Officer Jack Chambers. So far, they’ve developed 20 interactive general education courses.
The textbooks cost $60.98 in print, but this fall, they will publish online through CafeScribe at a price of $48 each. Eleven other colleges will use them as well.
Before the courses publish, a team of content specialists, instructional designers, quality assurance staff and multimedia personnel review them, as do expert faculty members outside the college (emphasis DSC).
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On 02/23/2010,
in Moodle, content development, education technology, educational games / serious games, social learning / networks, social media,
by Daniel Christian
Looking back at Learning Technologies 2010 — from Hans de Zwart
“A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 Learning Technologies Exhibition in London. In many ways this event is very similar to the Online Educa in Berlin (e.g. most Berlin exhibitors were in London too and the conferences shared a keynote speaker). There are two main differences: Learning Technologies seems to draw a slightly less international crowd and it focuses more on the world of corporate learning. In this post I want to capture the people I met and the technologies that I looked at. What caught my eye?”
- Mobile Learning, Social Media and Serious Gaming
- Technology Companies versus Content Development Companies
- Learning as a Managed Service
- Moodle Everywhere?
- Wisdom Architects
- …and more
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