The concept of sharing educational resources freely around the world, referred to as “open education” or “open courseware,” is now gaining mainstream acceptance both inside and outside of the academy and has been adopted by over 200 higher education institutions worldwide.
Teaching & Learning
The New Everyday
The latest project from the MediaCommons network is The New Everyday. A website and an experiment in “middle-state publishing,” the New Everyday is a web publication “between a blog and a journal” where “middle state” describes the point between the initial idea and the final published format.
Introducing LibX
Recent years have seen a steady increase in the number of online tools intended to facilitate access to and organization of information. Libraries—including NYU—have been working hard to simplify the management of research and bibliographic data though software and web-based solutions; this article focuses on LibX.
Digital Scholarly Publishing
We are in a period of extraordinarily rapid innovation, with new multimedia forms and tools—blogs, wikis, micro-communication services like Twitter, and image- and video-sharing services like Flickr and YouTube—offering novel ways for scholars to share knowledge.