Articles

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  • The Coming eTextbook Revolution in Higher Education

    An analysis of the potential of eTextbooks in higher education with a proposed strategy and tactics for fully leveraging the advantages on behalf of college and university students, faculty and administrators.
  • ACT

    I just published a free book for the iBooks library using iBooks Author and iTunes Producer. While it was not the easiest thing to do, it was fun and what a great tool for digital storytelling classes everywhere. My book is ACT - the art of going every...
  • iTunes U Courses

    Discovering iTunes U Course URLs
  • Apple announces iBook publishing app

    Apple today announced the immediate availability of iBooks Author, a new free app for creating and publishing multi-touch books for iPad.
     
    The app, available now on the App Store, includes professionally designed templates, or allows you to cre...
  • Referencing iTunesU content by URL

    We've loaded iTunesU with all our great content. Now we want to surface that content elsewhere.
     
    Notes on referencing iTunesU content (feeds and files) within iTunesU, and on web pages outside of iTunesU. That is, how to avoid duplicating ...
  • SoundConverter: A New Tool in My Belt

    Do you deal with audio files that inevitably need to be converted between formats? In this app review, Chris Brewer takes a look at SoundConverter.
  • Answers to Four Questions about iTunes U

     
    In this screencast, I address four common questions faculty have about iTunes U. The questions are:
    What is iTunes U?
    How do you access iTunes U?...  more
  • Dipity Online Tool Helps Tame Timelines

    Teaching the complex history of Africa can challenge any professor. Intersperse that history with the aid and development efforts of government, secular and religious organizations over time, and that challenge becomes a near impossibility.Elizabeth Bo...
  • Northeastern University’s Mobile Learning Initiative

    iPad2s for Faculty
    Northeastern University’s Educational Technology Center recently began offering iPad2s to faculty as part of a Mobile Learning Initiative.  This initiative grew out of an earlier program aimed at giving faculty members th...
  • Education and Workforce Mobile App Resource Center

    Article by
    Robbie K. Melton
    Associate Vice Chancellor
    Tennessee Board of Regents eLearning...  more