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__Brand New: New Logo and Identity for Kodak by Work-Order _ It capitalizes on the current acceptance of nostalgia by bringing back a classic icon and it builds on it with a simple, confident aesthetic.
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In the spirit of openness, we bring you the BCcampus 2015/16 Annual Review
The BCcampus 2015/16 Annual Review
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__Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts & Links October 15 to October 24 Topics – Perspectives – Sectors : Open Design Visual Communications Creative Marketing Education __ https://lnkd.in/e7imspr _
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‘Intentional, malicious’ cyberattack led to Ontario literacy test system crash
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UBC dominates list of highest-earning university, college employees
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Today’s college students are finding that technologies such as ebooks, adaptive learning tools, and online quizzes are greatly improving their chances for academic success: https://lnkd.in/byfRfHb via Read IT Quik
Digital Technology Key to Improved Student Performance
- McGraw-Hill Education – 2016 Digital Study Trends Survey – Hanover Research
- 2016-digital-trends-survey-results.pdf
- 2016 Digital Study Trends
- New Survey Data: Four Out of Five College Students Say Digital Learning Technology Helps Improve Their Grades
- Digital Technology Key to Improved Student Performance | ReadItQuik
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10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
- Maria Popova 10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings – Brain Pickings
- 10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings – Brain Pickings
- Flipboard’s Most Favorite of 2010: Interview with Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova
- The Art of Curation: An Interview with Maria Popova from BrainPickings | The Nebo Blog: Interactive Marketing, Design & Ramblings
- Maria Popova’s Beautiful Mind | Mother Jones
- On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism: A Commencement Address – Brain Pickings
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__Read or don’t, either way, how this ultimately works is anybody’s guess._
The Great Unbundling of Textbook Publishers
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Curriki Unveils New Personalized Services
Customized Services Put Quality Curriculum at Teachers’ Fingertips
Curriki, the leading K-12 global community for creating and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER), has created a new array of custom services to give educators direct and personalized access to Curriki’s high-quality curriculum resources on their school’s own websites, Curriki CEO Kim Jones announced
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How the Web Became Unreadable
It’s been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. I’ve caught myself squinting and holding the screen closer to my face. I’ve worried that my eyesight is starting to go.
These hurdles have made me grumpier over time, but what pushed me over the edge was when Google’s App Engine console — a page that, as a developer, I use daily — changed its text from legible to illegible. Text that was once crisp and dark was suddenly lightened to a pallid gray. Though age has indeed taken its toll on my eyesight, it turns out that I was suffering from a design trend.
There’s a widespread movement in design circles to reduce the contrast between text and background, making type harder to read. Apple is guilty. Google is, too. So is Twitter.
Typography may not seem like a crucial design element, but it is.
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__November 7, 2017, will mark the fifth anniversary since the Copyright Modernization Act came into force in Canada. But the act has brought enormous disruption to the book economy, which is based largely on the intangible capital that is copyright. For many Canadian authors, creators, and publishers, this act has been nothing short of a disaster.
Nicole Saint-Jean, President, Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL)
Canadian Copyright Modernization Act: Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold – Publishing Perspectives
However, all is perhaps not lost: Section 92 of the act stipulates that it be reviewed by a committee of the Senate and the House of Commons five years after taking effect. Let’s underscore how important it is for the government of Canada to set up a fact-based review of the repercussions the act has had. This review should be based on facts rather than perceptions or current thinking.
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‘Don’t ever accept mediocrity’: P&G’s Marc Pritchard tells marketers to stop putting out crappy ads
Speaking at the ANA Masters of Marketing conference in Orlando, Procter & Gamble’s chief brand officer Marc Pritchard explained to attendees how many of the company’s brands, including Tide, Always and Pantene, have combated these issues by putting a premium on creativity.
During his talk, Pritchard admitted that many of P&G’s brands have done their fair share of bad advertising. He cited a bizarre Pepto-Bismol video about a boy raised by goats and a strange Pantene post featuring enchiladas as just a few examples of the company’s sub-par advertising, explaining that ads like these are what prompted P&G to rethink its creative approach.
“In our quest to do dynamic, real-time marketing in the digital age, we were producing literally thousands of new ads,” he said. “We eventually concluded that while the world was getting louder, all we were doing was adding to the noise. We decided to step up our game and give consumers the experience they deserve. We’ve made a choice to raise the bar on creativity, because the consumers that we serve deserve our very best, and it is the key to unlocking growth.”
By following three guideposts, which are “express the brand as a masterpiece painted on a creative canvas,” “elevate the craft,” and “embrace creativity as a human endeavor,” Pritchard said that P&G has been able to dig itself out of the “content crap trap” and produce advertising that its brands can be proud of.
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“We want to ensure that all our students have equitable access to required course materials the very first day they walk into the classroom,” says Candice Jackson, the school’s acting vice president for Academic Affairs.
An Online Textbook Scholarship for Every Student at KSU
Making Essential Course Materials Affordable
As students across the nation returned to campus this fall, college affordability was an increasingly frequent topic of discussion among policymakers and political candidates. As the debate over how to address this important issue continues, one university is taking matters into its own hands.
At Kentucky State University, all students receive a scholarship to cover the full cost of their course materials. This new program, announced in August, delivers these free course materials in a 100% digital format, through Pearson’s Direct Digital Access model.
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- What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- HP explains why printer ink is so expensive | Computerworld
- Pricey Printer Ink Has Consumers Seeing Red – Consumer Reports News
- The Cost of Printer Ink – Consumer Reports Magazine
- HP apologises for lack of communication over ‘timebomb’ software update | Technology | The Guardian
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Pearson, Unizin Consortium Partner to Provide Affordable Digital Courseware, Wiley’s CEO addresses the Frankfurt Book Fair, Stanford’s new VR program about ocean acidification, and rights hacks for publishers.
“Pearson, Unizin Consortium Partner to Provide Affordable Digital Courseware”
Pearson and Unizin, Ltd. announced a partnership to increase access to affordable digital course materials to college students on the first day of class. Utilizing Unizin’s All Students Acquire model and leveraging Pearson’s Digital Direct Access (DDA) model, Unizin can provide its member institutions with Pearson’s high-quality eTextbook catalog and proven adaptive learning products, such as MyLab™ and Mastering™, at significant cost savings. The partnership will also provide educators with valuable insights into students’ learning activity through data access, enabling instructors to monitor learners’ progress and intervene when needed to ensure they are on the path to success.
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New curriculum service provides college faculty with consultations on low-cost learning materials. http://hubs.ly/H04Q2Z30
Akademos Launches New Curriculum Development Service for College Faculty
Partnership with NobleStream provides faculty with individual consultations for the selection of innovative, low-cost learning materials
Akademos has launched a custom curriculum development service for college faculty that helps institutions improve textbook affordability and educational outcomes.
Akademos Curriculum Services™ provides faculty with personal consultations on new learning models and course material choices that support faculty and student success by improving access to alternative, low-cost options. Through a strategic partnership with education consulting firm NobleStream, faculty at Akademos’ 120+ partner institutions can engage with NobleStream course advisors and explore opportunities to use unique courseware from best-in-class educational providers. Key features include:
- Discovery of solution providers in the Akademos Adoption & Analytics Portal with easy “one-click” faculty scheduling for consultations
- Custom course pricing options that dramatically reduce costs while providing high-quality digital course materials and relevant, advanced instructional products
- One-stop access to a suite of innovative educational solution providers including Fulcrum Labs, Lrnr, MindEdge, panOpen, uCertify and many more to help faculty evaluate and select the most appropriate resources for meeting their learning objectives
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Do you love writing? Are you looking for a little extra work freelance writing for an incredible company? Check out this cool opportunity to work with us!
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Open Your Textbook: Adopting, Adapting or Creating Your Own Open Textbook
Join Michelle Schwartz, Instructional Design & Research Strategist, and Ann Ludbrook, Copyright Librarian, for an introduction to the new Ryerson Guide to Open Textbooks, an instructional guide for faculty produced by the LTO and Ryerson Library. Learn how to adopt, adapt, and create your own open textbook using Ryerson’s new Pressbooks platform. Open textbooks provide instructors with the opportunity to create texts uniquely tailored to their own courses. They also save students money. By the end of this workshop you will have all the tools needed to get started building your own open textbook.
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__My Journal of BCcampus Open Textbook Project 2012 – 2016 _ BC Families First Agenda _https://dongorges.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/bccampus-open-textbook-project-history-2012-2016-_-bc-families-first-agenda/__
The BC Open Textbook Project celebrates four years of success
In addition to open textbooks, the Open Textbook Project offers free open education resources including resources to make open textbooks more accessible to people with disabilities, an authoring guide to assist with creating or adapting open textbooks, and an open education resource toolkit. The toolkit provides information on how interested student societies can advocate for greater open textbook adoption on campus.
Projects in development through the Open Textbook Project include a new open textbook on Aboriginal knowledge and science education research, supplementary teaching resources and adoption packages for common core trades open textbooks.
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Digital Transformation Of Business And Communications – Part 2
As a business owner and communications industry veteran, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, President of Shikatani Lacroix, a Toronto-based branding and design agency, has seen a massive evolution in technology and customer/employee expectations over the last two decades. In part 2 of this multi-part executive Q&A series I will chat with Jean-Pierre about what is driving digital transformation in businesses and the potential ROI from it.
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Fact Checking How Much Do College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks? 2015 > 2016 Phil Hill
Fact Checking Sources of data on College Students spending on Textbooks 2015 > 2016
Reprise: How Much Do Community College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks?
Posted on July 28, 2016 by Phil Hill
Cable Green Updated Keynote Slides November 2014
How Much Do College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks?
Posted on March 25, 2015 by Phil Hill
Postscript on Student Textbook Expenditures: More details on data sources
Posted on March 27, 2015 by Phil Hill
About the Diverging Textbook Prices and Student Expenditures
Posted on March 30, 2015 by Phil Hill
Textbook Rentals: The Biggest Change In Student Spending
Apr 29, 2015 By: Phil Hill
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Dr. Tony Bates shares insights on writing an Open Textbook in 2014 – Teaching in a Digital Age
Tony Bates 2014 series of “Open Textbook” Blog Posts, February 2, 2014
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BCcampus Open Textbook Project History 2012 – 2016 _ BC Families First Agenda
VANCOUVER – British Columbia is set to become the first province in Canada to offer students free online, open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses.
Up to 200,000 B.C. students each year could benefit from this move under B.C.’s Families First Agenda, saving each student hundreds of dollars a year or more on textbooks – money that can go toward other learning supplies or living expenses.
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Well thought out letter to editor of FT on educational material. Learning and outcomes are what really counts.
Cost of digital learning tools should not count
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Don Gorges Archive of LinkedIn Posts & Links October 3 to October 15
Topics-Perspectives-Sectors:
Open Design Visual Communications Creative Marketing Education
Higher Education Management
Open Educational Resources
A new survey of higher-ed faculty indicates OER use is on the brink of a sizable expansion.
Faculty: OER use could triple in the next 5 years
The survey, Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Higher Education Landscape, also found that OER use for supplemental learning materials may nearly quadruple in size, from 5 percent to 19 percent.
“Being able to afford a higher education—from tuition to living expenses and course materials—continues to be a challenge for many students. At Cengage, we are constantly working with faculty to create new, affordable learning options that are high quality and engaging. This includes integrating OER use into a growing number of digital learning solutions, including our MindTap and Learning Objects platforms,” said Cheryl Costantini, VP of Content Strategy, Cengage Learning.
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