Students
War News Radio
Abdulla Mizead explains how a visionary alum, a group of dedicated students and a supportive college community brought stories of everyday life in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan to the world and cutting edge journalism to Swarthmore College.
Upcoming NERCOMP Workshop: "Classroom of the Future"
NERCOMP Workshop on Student Collaboration
Who Uses Wikipedia.......According To Powerset
Ran across this blog post from Powerset concerning the usage of wikipedia by students in higher education. Once you get beyond the plug for Powerset, some rather interesting research results are presented.
Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing?
While we have been busy attending conferences, workshops, and seminars on every possible aspect of scholarly communication, information technology, digital libraries, and e-publishing, students have been quietly revolutionizing the discovery and use of information. Their behavior, undertaken without consultation or attendance at formal academic events, urgently forces those of us in scholarly publishing to confront some fundamental questions about our organizations, jobs, and assumptions about our work.
