"Assessment of these technologies and others will enable our students and faculty to evaluate what combinations of institutional, cloud, open source and commercial tools can best serve IU’s future."ĬourseNetworking (or 'theCN') was designed by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) professor Ali Jafari. "IU is in a good position to offer trials of new technologies while we continue to support our heavily used Oncourse system," said Brad Wheeler, vice president of IT and CIO at Indiana University, in a prepared statement. The trials are part of an ongoing assessment project to evaluate the "currently available tools and systems that support teaching and learning," according to a statement released this week by the university. Indiana University will begin a two-year pilot program this fall with academic social networking site CourseNetworking and open source learning management system provider Instructure. Just follow the directions located at (make sure that your browser is set to support “third-party cookies”).Learning Tools and Apps | News Indiana University To Test Drive Academic Social Network To get a clearer idea of the advantages of the IU eText reader and see how it works, consider taking a look at the course demo in which you’ll have access to several eTexts from different academic fields. Students have access to their eTexts as long as they are enrolled at Indiana University.
Students are able to print the text without any additional fee furthermore, they could print the text with comments or just their comments.Students are able to share their eText comments with each other and the instructor.Students are able to highlight text with multiple colors and to annotate it with comments.Students are able to access the digital version of the textbook through Oncourse via any device that has a web browser (e.g., computer, laptop, tablets, smartphones).Here is a summary of key information about the IU e-text initiative, in case you might be interested in including eTexts in your courses in the upcoming semesters: Instructors who were considering using eTexts for their spring course had until Octoto submit their requests to determine the availability and cost of the desired electronic text books. Due to the fact that eTexts are available online, students can have access to them at any time and any place, even right from their cell phones, and no longer need to carry heavy books wherever they go. In order to get this low price, all students within the course will be assessed an eText fee which is somehow similar to a lab fee. eTexts are remarkably more affordable than new textbooks the cost of IU eTexts will be just 35% of the original textbook. The two main attributes contributing to the promotion of eTexts are affordability and accessibility.
Indiana University joins a few other universities which have also implemented this emerging technology such as University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin. After a two-year pilot which included over 1,000 students from different academic departments, the Indiana University e-Text initiative will be expanded to all campuses and departments in Spring 2012.
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