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Sherrie Negrea

Having the rights to digital books allows libraries to offer students more options.
Academic Affairs

Library consortium adopts EBA model for e-book acquisition

Evidence-based acquisition helps campus libraries in Pennsylvania save on digital learning materials.
ACQUIRE BY DEMAND—Demand-driven acquisition is practiced at the University of Dayton for less expensive e-book purchasing. Here, Associate Professor of Psychology Viorel Paslaru spends time inside Roesch Library reading an e-book.
Academic Affairs

Acquiring e-books for college and university libraries

Two emerging models for obtaining e-books for academic libraries: Demand-driven acquisition and evidence-based acquisition
Instruction production—Dawn Dubriel (right), an instructional designer at Lynn University, helps faculty such as criminal justice professor Sindee Kerker create lesson plans using instructional apps for iPad Pro. Instructional designers produce videos with professors and teach them how to do it themselves.
Academic Affairs

How instructional design staff help faculty create better academic videos

Higher ed institutions are raising the bar on instructional videos as professors learn best practices in content development and production from their expert colleagues on campus
WINDOW DISPLAY—The video wall in the admissions office at New York Institute of Technology is meant to inspire people, whether it‘s a prospective student checking out academic programs while waiting for a campus tour, or a pedestrian walking by the building who can’t help but peer inside.
Finance

Video walls move to the next level

Ideas for using impressive video display wall technology across college campuses
Since a video wall was installed in the library at Connecticut College in 2015 (right), it has been used by more than 1,000 students in about 80 different classes.
Uncategorized

Tech providers on successful video wall displays

Tech providers weigh in on the challenges colleges and universities tend to have with creating video display walls and how overcome them.
IT and AV

Interactive video content ideas and best practices

Here are some examples of content ideas for interactive video content as well as best practices that are already employed by various universities and colleges across the U.S. Create ways for […]
IT and AV

Creating interactive video for distance learning courses

Teenagers spend more of their time watching YouTube video clips than television, according to research from DEFY Media. Yet when they arrive at college, they’re suddenly expected to sit in […]
Facilities

4 ways colleges are upgrading classroom acoustics

College classrooms of yore were often fortresses reinforced with concrete floors and walls. Listening to a lecture in such hard-surfaced rooms was like trying to decipher sound in an echo […]
Facilities

Quiz: Is your campus paying attention to classroom acoustics?

Take this quiz to find out if your campus has acoustic problems in its classrooms. If so, the facilities department should assess the acoustics to determine if there are problems with reverberation […]