Welcome to the Black Caucus of the American Library Association-New Jersey Chapter. The BCALA-NJ is a new chapter of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association formed by some of New Jersey’s finest librarians involved with New Jersey libraries through employment or advocacy in many of the state’s academic, public, school, and special libraries. Part of our mission is to enhance and enrich the lives of black people through the profession of librarianship.
Readings of Possible Interest- 10 Hottest Ed-Tech Stories of 2012 January 2, 2013Articles about how free online courses, or MOOCs, could disrupt higher education dominated the headlines last year here at the Wired Campus blog, and they were the most popular with readers as well. Several articles about e-textbooks also topped our list of most-read articles of 2012, highlighting what has been a time of change, and anxiety, for colleges and […]Jeffrey R. Young
- ‘History Harvest’ Project May Spawn a New Kind of MOOC December 21, 2012During the New Deal of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration hired writers to document history across the United States. The best-known effort collected oral histories of former slaves. Those interviews became the bedrock of research for decades, contributing to a reinterpretation of slavery that took place from the 1950s to the 1980s, says William G. […]Marc Parry
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: Data and Learning Analytics December 20, 2012Blog: Hack (Higher) EducationPart 7 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 series I chose “data” as one of the top trends of 2011, and the opening line of that article reads “If data was an important trend for 2011, I predict it will be even more so in 2012.” Indeed. There’s a great deal that happened in 2012 that’s a continuation of what we saw last year — enough […]Audrey Watters
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: The Battle to Open Textbooks December 19, 2012Blog: Hack (Higher) EducationPart 6 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 series Digital Textbooks When I looked at the most significant trends in educational technology last year, I opted to write about the “Digital Library” in lieu of digital textbooks. And truth be told, it would be quite easy for me to make the same argument again in 2012: despite all the hyp […]Audrey Watters
- The MOOCs fad and bubble: please tell us another story! December 19, 2012Blog: GlobalHigherEdIn the context of two recent GlobalHigherEd entries about the global geopolitics and geoeconomics of MOOCs (see ‘Are MOOCs becoming mechanisms for international competition in global higher ed?’ and ‘On the territorial dimensions of MOOCs’) we are pleased to post this guest entry by Dominique Boullier, Professor in Sociology, Sciences Po […]Kris Olds
- Georgetown U Joins EdX December 18, 2012Georgetown University has joined edX, bringing the number of institutions participating in the not-for-profit online learning initiative to six. […](author unknown)
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: MOOCs December 18, 2012Blog: Hack (Higher) EducationPart 5 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 series The Year of the MOOC Massive Open Online Courses. MOOCs. This was, without a doubt, the most important and talked-about trend in education technology this year. And oh man, did we talk about it. MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs […]Audrey Watters
- Leading British Universities Join New MOOC Venture December 14, 2012Martin Bean, vice chancellor of the Open U., says the new venture will have a “distinctly British” twist. Earlier this month, one of Britain’s top newspapers noticed a glaring absence on the British education scene: MOOC’s. “U.K. universities are wary of getting on board the MOOC train,” read The Guardian’s headline. Two institutions, the Universities of Edi […]Marc Parry
- New Guides Aim to Become the Yelp for MOOC’s December 4, 2012Students looking for massive open online courses, or MOOC’s, have many options, with a growing number of providers and course titles. A handful of Web sites have popped up over the past few months to help students find courses they’re interested in, much as a restaurant-goer might turn to Yelp. Some of the sites let students review the MOOC’s they’ve taken, […]Alisha Azevedo
- Updates to Evernote November 21, 2012That members of the team here at ProfHacker are fans of Evernote is hardly a secret; we’ve mentioned it on numerous occasions. It’s very useful for storing and searching whatever information you want to keep track of, and it syncs across platforms, so all your notes are available to you, no matter what device you’re using. Within the last few weeks, Evernote […]Amy Cavender
- 10 Hottest Ed-Tech Stories of 2012 January 2, 2013