A Classroom Copyright Crisis - Chronicle.com
High-school teachers and college professors receive next to no training on copyright law and fair-use doctrine, a new report argues, and their students are suffering as a result.

Predicting Student Struggles in College - Chronicle.com
Seattle—Colleges now collect a wealth of data on their students. And within that data lies a way to keep students from failing a class by finding early signs of trouble, says John P. Campbel, associate vice-president of teaching and learning technologies at Purdue University.

Colleges Struggle to Keep Up With Data Demands (Computerworld)

Students and faculty require more space to store fast-growing multimedia files:

“IT officials recently upgraded their e-mail system, and they figured that 3.5 terrabytes of storage capacity would be plenty for about 6,500 inboxes. But the university soon concluded that no less than 15.2 terrabytes would suffice. Since each terrabyte costs about $8,400, that’s a big difference.”

Humanities Scholars Get Networked - Chronicle.com
The Social Science Research Network, an online clearinghouse for current research popular among social scientists, has created a Humanities Research Network along the same model.

The new network will cover three areas: philosophy, classics, and English and American literature. More disciplines will be added in the coming months.

information r/evolution movie - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
this video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique & share information. this video was created as a “conversation” starter & works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future & the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate & create information effectively.

Technophilia: Discover the .EDU Underground - Lifehacker
there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites wont pop up to the surface of the average search engine quest, and so they wait, neglected and underused…until now.

UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube
The University of California Berkeley has started uploading video recordings of course lectures on to YouTube.

The initial round of lectures covers 300 hours of video on subjects including Chemistry, Physics and Non-Violence, with more content to come. The move by Berkeley is claimed to be a first by some, however some of the videos have been previously available elsewhere, including iTunes and Google Video; perhaps it’s a first for YouTube.

via TechCrunch