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UC System Making Research Open to All 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
The University of California system recently announced a new policy that will make all of its research articles free online and available to the public through its open-access repository, eScholarship...
Facebook Testing Mobile Payments 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Facebook is testing a mobile payment platform that will let users pay for online purchases by logging in with their Facebook credentials. The platform is being developed as an in-house project for the...
Wearable Mobile Ready to Become a Hit? 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Wearable mobile devices could be the next big thing, particularly on campus where tech-savvy students are always looking for that next big thing. A study from Forrester Research found 28% of consumer...
Textbooks to Tablets, Students Seek Used 22 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
A funny thing happened when an instructor at Calhoun Community College in Alabama allowed his summer-term students to choose between buying traditional textbooks or buying e-books for a tablet, which ...
College Prep Fuels K-12 Tablet Frenzy 21 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
As The CITE has noted before, the hot trend in K-12 education is the tablet computer. Individual schools and entire school districts across the U.S. are purchasing tablets for their classrooms, often ...
Chegg Going Public, Issues IPO 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Chegg used to be a Craigslist-type of business for selling and renting textbooks. Now, it bills itself as a “student hub” offering textbook solutions in both print and digital formats, scholarships, s...
Amazon Restricts Rental Book Travel 19 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Warehouse Deals, an Amazon.com subsidiary, was launched as a place where consumers could find deals on returned, warehouse-damaged, used, or refurbished products. It has offered print textbook rentals...
E-Book Sales Pattern Hard to Decipher 16 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Sales of e-books may be leveling off as more consumers switch to tablets, which allow users to access a variety of content, not just e-books. Or at least that was the conclusion of Rough Type blogger ...
Students Would Like Mobile Reading Options 15 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
A report from CourseSmart found that just 10% of responding students actually read the assigned work for a class. However, the 500 American college students in the survey also said their response woul...
Higher Ed Should Beware of Hackers 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Colleges and universities across the country may be making it much easier for hackers to steal sensitive information from students and their parents, according to research done by Halock Security Labs...
