College of Information and Computer Science, Long Island University
Published by February 5th, 2008
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the beta launch of WiserWiki, a wiki that allows board-certified physicians to collaboratively contribute and update medical information online. The site, which is open to and viewable by the public, is seeded with content from The Textbook of Primary Care Medicine (3rd Edition, 2001) by Dr. John Noble.
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Looking to see examples of what e-learning looks like? As we try to integrate and link library services and resources to e-elearning in our communities, it’s useful to see a few examples. Follow the links in this post for useful examples: e-Learning Demos, Examples of E-Learning, Where are Examples of eLearning? Designing e-learning.
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Published by November 3rd, 2007
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Four in 10 tweens are interested in taking an online course before graduating from high school, according to a North American Council for Online Learning-commissioned survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Only 7% of all elementary or secondary students had ever taken an online course.
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Published by June 25th, 2007
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Today’s students have little patience for trudging to the library and researching a question on paper. For better or worse, they’re far more likely to jump online and use tools like Google and Wikipedia to try to find answers quickly.
For the New York University College of Dentistry, battling that tendency–since unapproved online sources are often poor substitutes for peer-reviewed textbooks–is a challenge. Fighting fire with fire, the school has gradually worked to make all of the reference materials a student needs to complete a degree, from textbooks to lecture material, available online. It now has some 80 textbooks accessible through a website for reference or download, along with a wealth of other content.
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