Wikiversity Guiding the Digital Transformation of Organizations « Legerity Digital Press As information technologies (IT) become core elements of an organization’s competitive and operational strategies, executives, technologists and business professionals cannot ignore important decisions about their IT investments and IT-enabled business initiatives. They must focus their attention toward alignment among business and technology strategies, competitive markets, organization structures and processes, implemented technologies, and people. Sambamurthy and Zmud have in-depth experience in both interacting with executives, technologists and business professionals, and teaching these materials in graduate programs and executive programs. They have drawn upon their experience in crafting this book on the strategic management and use of IT in organizations. The book adopts an executive management perspective, but also ensures that the concepts and terminology being introduced are readily understood by readers from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Chapter Titles Robert W.
OER Commons Main Page - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities 5 Free (or Low-Cost) Tools for Flipped Learning -- Campus Technology Flipped Classroom Page 2 of 2 5 Free (or Low-Cost) Tools for Flipped Learning Office Mix For Windows users, Office Mix is a free add-on that lets you turn PowerPoint presentations into interactive online videos, complete with built-in polls, quizzes and analytics to check for understanding. Office Mix works on versions of Office 2013 or later, including the free Office 365 for educators. When you're done recording, you can upload your mix to a free Office Mix hosting portal. According to Bergmann, Office Mix is very useful "because it offers video creation and interaction and hosting — all in one solution." Screencast-O-Matic Screencast-O-Matic is a free browser-based app that lets you create screencasts from a Mac or Windows computer without having to install any software. With just one click from the Screencast-O-Matic Web site, you can bring up a screen recorder window, which you can drag and resize to anywhere on your screen. Verso Plus, "it's all anonymous," Bergmann added.
Build Your Own Digital Textbooks When the governors of the nation's two most populous states bang the drum for schools to switch to electronic textbooks, you gotta think that the transition away from paper and toward digital devices would be rapidly under way. Indeed, the big three textbook publishers do offer nearly all of their products in a digital form, just as they're scrambling to keep up with demand for supplemental, game-like resources. But while the rallying cry for open-source digital textbooks is coming from California and Texas, the real revolution is happening elsewhere. Create Your OwnIn districts from Arizona to Indiana, educators are opting out of textbooks altogether, culling from vetted electronic resources and courseware to essentially create their own texts. For a few states and many districts, the textbook adoption cycle may be a thing of the past. "The long-term transformation is not books going online," says Mary Skafidas, a marketing executive at McGraw-Hill. What to Do Now?
Mobile Learning Awards Mobile Learning is the winner of the 2010 Charles A. Wedemeyer Award, provided by the University Professional & Continuing Education Association. Click here for more information on their Community of Practice Awards program. About the Book This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. About the Editor Mohamed Ally is a Professor in the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University, where he teaches and researches the educational uses of mobile technology, mobile libraries, and workplace learning. Download the eBook Copyright: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA). Download the entire book Select a Chapter DownloadFRONT MATTER DownloadTABLE OF CONTENTS DownloadFOREWORD DownloadCONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Download INTRODUCTION PART ONE: Advances in Mobile Learning DownloadChapter 1Current State of Mobile LearningJohn Traxler PART TWO: Research on Mobile Learning DownloadConclusion
Khan Academy Cheaters Are Thieves. Learn How to Do the Right Thing. | Cleveland Tutors Why shouldn’t you poach other people’s ideas and pass them off as your own? For one thing, taking other people’s ideas and using them as if they were yours is plagiarism. Plagiarism reflects a fundamental lack of thought and imagination. Here at Cleveland Tutors, we have a new page with our Honor Code on it. Learn how to give credit where credit is due because it’s the right thing to do;Know the consequences if you plagiarize or cheat. Let’s first define plagiarism, and then we’ll talk about how to avoid it. What Is Plagiarism? Everybody shares their homework answers, though, right? Using someone else’s ideas as if they were your own without appropriately citing your sources is plagiarism. What if you decide to be that person who doesn’t care that cheating is the wrong thing to do? Academic Consequences What are the consequences if you plagiarize in school? Wait, wait, wait. Also, nice try, but don’t get lazy about attributing your writing to someone else. Athletic Consequences Summary
Sick of paying for textbooks? Get them now, free and online In the same way that free open online courseware is threatening to disrupt traditional universities, open textbook initiatives such as OpenStax College from Rice University threaten to do the same to the traditional textbook market. OpenStax College has taken five of the most popular topics taught in American universities and produced high quality peer-reviewed textbooks that are available for anyone to download for free. OpenStax College aims to try and save students at least $90 million over five years by capturing 10% of the US textbook market. Authors of textbooks in Flat World Knowledge receive a royalty on sales of printed versions of their textbooks, whereas authors contributing towards Rice University’s venture are volunteering their efforts. Bookboon funds open access through the inclusion of advertising in the books. The move to electronic textbooks is something that students have adopted with gusto. Spending time searching for a free textbook is probably not a priority.
Bring the E-Books Home By David Rothman How to download free books directly via your Kindle’s built-in Web browser? Alas, Project Gutenberg and most other public domain sites aren’t optimized right now for devices with small screens and slow browsers. And free Kindle download guides—with links to public domain books—are not as easy and convenient to use as they could be in my opinion (TeleRead Co-Editor Paul Biba offers his thoughts later in this post). What’s more, free editions of more than a few public domain books are AWOL in the Kindle’s bookstore. The glories of FreeKindleBooks.org Enter FreeKindleBooks.org. It will take you to thousands of Kindle books organized by author. Jules Verne (right photo) showed up with 34 titles. including Journey. 59 Dickens works, 49 by Twain and 7 by Austen Fifty-nine works by Dickens (left photo), 49 by Mark Twain and seven by Jane Austen (less prolific than the other two) appear on FreeKindleBooks.org. FreeKindleBooks.org, granted, has flaws.
Best Alternatives to PowerPoint Let’s face it: PowerPoint isn’t the easiest to learn and use, especially if you’re wanting to elevate your design beyond headers and bullet points. Thankfully there are other tools available today that allow you to easily create presentations — and have them look good, too. Here’s a look: 1. Keynote is Apple’s version of PowerPoint. Pros: Easy to use; not bloated; works well with video and audio; can export to PowerPoint; iPad and iPhone friendly Cons: Mac only; not as robust and lacks a lot of the bells and whistles PowerPoint offers 2. Canva simplifies the design process. Pros: Sophisticated layouts and design elements; easy to use Cons: Small collection of presentation templates 3. If you are like me, you have probably been wanting an excuse to switch your presentations to a mobile device since Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPad back in 2010. Pros: Beautiful templates; inexpensive design options Cons: Limited design; iPad and web only 4. Cons: Mac only 5. eMaze Author Bio
Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings OpenStax has been well received on college campuses as textbook prices remain stubbornly high By Dennis Carter, Assistant EditorRead more by Denny Carter August 14th, 2012 Educators at 55 colleges will use OpenStax books this fall. College students in some of the most heavily attended courses in the country will eclipse $1 million in textbook savings after a Rice University-based publisher had 13,000 open-source books downloaded since June. OpenStax College, a start-up online textbook publisher launched early this year, announced Aug. 14 that its first two book titles, College Physics and Introduction to Sociology, have sold more than 13,000 free copies – enough to save students $1 million during the upcoming fall semester. Baraniuk’s goal is to save college students $95 million over the next five years. Open-textbook activists said skeptics of low-cost and free textbooks shouldn’t scoff at OpenStax’s modest adoption rate. “A bad book is still a bad book, even if it’s free,” Harris said.