Per Benoît Morel:
We just launched a new release of Living Actor™ Presenter, a 100% online tool that generates video animations from an audio or text file, automatically animating a high quality 3D full body avatar. This new version is more powerful, offers more multimedia, and is faster to use.
University of California to start YouTube channel — San Francisco Business Times by Steven E.F. Brown, Web Editor
Excerpt:
On March 1, the University of California system will start its own dedicated channel on YouTube.
The UC system plans to run “15 minutes of fresh content” every week on the channel using San Bruno-based YouTube’s service. News on the channel will include documentaries, interviews, commentaries and video shorts based on events and research at all 10 university campuses as well as its medical schools like UCSF. Content may also come from UC-managed labs like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Via:
Accredited Online Universities Guide
Addendum on 2/14/12 — also see:
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From DSC:
In case it’s helpful, clicking on this link or on one of the images above will link you to a recent presentation that I did for an Interim course at Calvin College entitled, “Social Media for Business?” As the class had already covered a lot of the topics relating to social media, my job was to focus more on some of the recent emerging trends and technologies. I will continue to keep pulse checking on those technologies which will allow for ubiquitous, mobile (as well as from the living room), 24x7x365, multimedia-based learning.
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From DSC:
I originally saw this at
Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng
also launching a massive online learning startup [Watters]
![Announcing the 2012 Media for eLearning - Top Tools Report [elearningguild.com]](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Top-e-learningTools-2012.jpg "Top-e-learningTools-2012")
Via: OnlineEducation.net
Stormy waters ahead as ‘disruptive forces’ sweep the old guard — from timeshighereducation.co.uk by Sarah Cunnane
Online education will turn the academy inside out, argue US authors.
Excerpt:
Graduation rates in the US have fallen, and states have slashed funding for higher education. As a result, public universities have raised tuition fees, and many are struggling to stay afloat during the recession. But two authors working in the US higher education sector claim that the academy has a bigger battle on the horizon: the “disruptive innovation” ushered in by online education.
This disruption, they say, will force down costs, lure prospective students away from traditional “core” universities, transform the way academics work, and spell the end for the traditional scholarly calendar based around face-to-face teaching.
Clayton M. Christensen, the Kim B. Clark professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Henry J. Eyring, advancement vice-president at Brigham Young University-Idaho, outline their ideas in The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out.
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How iBooks Author Stacks Up to the Competition [CHART] — from Mashable.com by Chelsea Stark
Author, Author! Apple, Apple! — from The Journal by Therese Mageau
Apple’s new interactive textbook authoring system might just revolutionize the way districts develop their own curriculum.
iTunes U vs. Blackboard – A Look at Apple’s New Online System — from padgadget.com
Thanks to iPads and Kindles, E-Book Lending at Libraries Explodes — from ReadWriteWeb.com by John Paul Titlow
Why textbooks of the future are not books — from gigaom.com by Erica Ogg
Apple Jumps Into Textbooks — from the WSJ
With More iPads in Classrooms, Education Push Would Help Fend Off Android-Device Competition
Apple’s iTunes U Morphs Into a Tool for Full Online Classes — from Mashable.com by Sarah Kessler
Reinventing Textbooks: A Hard Course — from the New York Times by David Streitfeld
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AcademicPub adds 22 new publishers to its content library — from edukwest.com by Kirsten Winkler
Excerpt:
AcademicPub is an online platform for college professors that enables them to create custom print or digital textbooks. This way professors can pick the content relevant to their course only which leads to much lower prices for the students when they purchase the books.
Launched in April 2011 by SharedBook Inc., AcademicPub started with less than 20 publishers but the platform quickly attracted new partners and now offers copyright-cleared material from over 100 publishers including…
