Saturday, August 28, 2004

Berkley ePortfolio Report. I ran across this report almost at random... (gotta love google).. LDP ePortfolio Report. The objective of the report is: "The UC Berkeley Leadership Development Program (LDP) ePortfolio Project Team was asked to research and make a recommendation as to whether a student ePortfolio should be implemented on the UC Berkeley campus. Our charge included presenting data in support of... [Michelle's Online Learning Freakout Party Zone] 11:00:14 AM      Google It!.

Students choose logging on over listening to lectures - Jenel Few, Savannah Morning News. Online courses grow in popularity at the area colleges and universities. Deirdre Ward has nearly completed a master's degree but after teaching third-graders all day at Taylors Creek Elementary School in Hinesville, going to college to finish her stud [Online Learning Update] 9:43:22 AM      Google It!.

The Future of College Textbooks - William M.K. Trochim, Syllabus. Anyone can have a vision. Making that vision a reality is another matter. Not long into my teaching career, I found myself with a vision for college textbooks. I wanted to utilize the Internet for publishing the textbooks, which had become too big and [Online Learning Update] 9:42:07 AM      Google It!.

Canada has an excellent online atlas. [Scripting News] 9:39:36 AM      Google It!.

The government of Alberta supports RSS. [Scripting News] 9:37:29 AM      Google It!.

Publisher mergers raise journal prices. Mark McCabe, Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach, Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 3, 1, (2004). Abstract: "Using data from more than 400 legal serials, I estimate the impact of six publisher mergers on law serial prices during the period, 1990-2000. The results suggest that merger-related price increases were substantial during this period, even after accounting for secular price trends. Furthermore, these merger effects occurred across a broadly-defined portfolio of serial titles consisting of legal encyclopedias and treatises. For other types of serials, such as newsletters and looseleaf services, these effects were not observed. Based on the portfolio demand behavior of buyers, I offer an explanation for this result based on the degree of product differentiation at the level of the individual title. Of particular interest is the purchase of West Publishing Company by Thomson Financial & Professional Publishing Group in 1996. Despite a government-mandated divestiture of more than 50 titles, the results indicate that titles published by West-Thomson experienced a significant post-merger price increase." (PS: This edition of the article is freely accessible for users willing to register and have a subscription request sent to their library. Other users should read the edition at McCabe's web site.) [Open Access News] This is what monopolies are about - increasing profits --BL 9:36:37 AM      Google It!.