Warning on the Aging Librarian Work Force
By Lindsay McKenzie. A series of research papers from the Association of Research Libraries has warned that a large proportion of librarians will be coming up to retirement in the next few years. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. A series of research papers from the Association of Research Libraries has warned that a large proportion of librarians will be coming up to retirement in the next few years. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. In April 2016, four online students at George Washington University filed a class-action lawsuit. The students said they paid more for their online master’s degrees than did their on-campus classmates, but they received a lower standard of instruction. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. A survey of historians has found that their relatively slow adoption of new technologies has “as much to do with a lack of resources” as “stereotypical fustiness and fear.” More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Eight colleges have been sued in federal court in New York in the last two weeks for having websites that, the suits claim, are inaccessible to people with disabilities, The New York Times reported Wednesday. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. ResearchGate, a popular social networking site for researchers, has come under fire from publishers because of the way in which scientists share their research on the platform. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Apple has sold products to colleges, sometimes at meaningful discounts, for a long time, but no deal has ever looked anything like the collaboration just announced with Ohio State University. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. At many medical schools, new or renovated libraries have few books. Librarians are divided on the trend. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Ruling in high-profile sexual harassment case suggests that foreign students in online courses have no recourse under Title IX. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. The for-profit online education provider Udacity has announced plans to create a new Flying Car nanodegree at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. More...