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December 31st, 2010 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content
Last Year Was About Digital and Next Year Is Too — E-books, OER, and Social Media
All in all it’s been a great year and now I’m looking forward to 2011. We plan to focus more keenly on digital textbooks and to expand our coverage of student perspectives. And, yes, we will create even more of those videos everyone seems to love. But wait, we do still have one last research update for the year. So, here it goes Read Article
December 31st, 2010 in Weekly Research Index
Weekly Research Index | December 31, 2010
Welcome to our Weekly Research Index, where we list links and summaries of the salient articles we have bookmarked this week. This list is culled and edited from our ongoing Delicious feed, which is also available via this blog. This Index is divided into broad categories based on our Education and Technology Trends for 2010. This week saw trending in e-readers, e-books, social media and the iPad Read Article
December 30th, 2010 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content
Textbook Publishers Need to Innovate — Content Subscriptions, Magazine Apps, and Sharing
Keith Hampson suggests that textbook publishers need to focus on rich media content in order to remain relevant. His point is that textbook publishers no longer have a monopoly on plain text information and, in fact, their company sizes make it hard for them to be competitive in that area. The bigger problem for these publishers, along with their trade and media publisher counterparts, is a general lack of innovation Read Article
December 29th, 2010 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content
Drawing the Battle Lines for Publishing in 2011 — Publishers, Digital Media, and Content Distribution
One thing’s for certain — 2011 will be just as much about e-books as 2010 (if not more). In this update I take a look at predictions on publishing and e-books, as well as at iPad 2 rumors and e-readers Read Article
December 28th, 2010 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content
The Race to the $100 Barrier for Device Dominance in Education — Smartphones, E-readers, and Tablets
One of the more important trends to watch in education for 2011 is the is the race to lock in some form of mobile device in education. Contenders for this trophy, in generic terms are the smartphone and the tablet. The winner will receive the lion’s share of the educational content business and all the ancillary revenues associated with that (device sales, activation fees, ancillary advertising etc.) Read Article
December 27th, 2010 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content
Revisiting Predictions about Content Subscription and Education — Tablets, Apps, and Facebook
In addition to updates on tablets, mobile, and Facebook, I look back today at my prediction for the past year about the importance of content subscription models in Higher Education Read Article