The full text of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning is available online through the MIT Press. This series "examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect a person's sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically." Worthwhile reading for educators.

CURRENT VOLUMES:
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Digital Young, Innovation, and the Unexpected
Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

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Knowledge monopolies : the academisation of society
Privilege and diversity in the academy
Technology and diversity in higher education: new challenges
The American faculty : the restructuring of academic work and careers
Higher ground : ethics and leadership in the modern university
Engaging departments : moving faculty culture from private to public, individual to collective focus for the common good
Planning effective instruction : diversity responsive methods and management
Rights and wrongs in the college classroom : ethical issues in postsecondary teaching
Black women in the ivory tower, 1850-1954 : an intellectual history
Indoctrination U. : the left's war against academic freedom
Universities in the age of corporate science : the UC Berkeley-Novartis controversy
Assessing organizational performance in higher education
The art and politics of academic governance : relations among boards, presidents, and faculty
American educational history : school, society, and the common good
Searching for higher education leadership : advice for candidates and search committees
Diversity across the curriculum : a guide for faculty in higher education
To restore American democracy : political education and the modern university
Erotic mentoring : women's transformations in the university
Enhancing scholarly work on teaching and learning : professional literature that makes a difference
Creating a new kind of university : institutionalizing community-university engagement
Our underachieving colleges : a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more
College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now
The handbook of blended learning : global perspectives, local designs
Academic freedom at the dawn of a new century : how terrorism, governments, and culture wars impact free speech
The spirit of service : exploring faith, service, and social justice in higher education
Excellence without a soul : how a great university forgot education
What's happening to public higher education?
Instructing and mentoring the African American college student : strategies for success in higher education
Advancing campus efficiencies : a companion for campus leaders in the digital era
The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges

See Also:
The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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Also in our collection:
Learning Express Library: GRE & other standardized test preparation materials online. UNCA login required.

Removing barriers : women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
50 success classics [electronic resource] : winning wisdom for life and work from 50 landmark books
Training and education in professional psychology [electronic resource]
Planning, proposing, and presenting science effectively : a guide for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral sciences and biology

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View/download this eBook

From the book description: Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration.

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