At the beginning of each semester, my social timeline is filled with articles, blogs, and tweets about the skyrocketing prices of course materials in higher education. In the last month, my Twitter feed included a series of tweets from 2020...
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Unizin’s Teaching and Learning Group (Almost) One Year Later
Last April, a small group of top educators met in Chicago to discuss Unizin’s Teaching and Learning plan. The group was chartered with providing recommendations to the Unizin board for strategic priorities around teaching and learning. At the first meeting the group...
An Evolutionary Unizin Approach for Commercial and OER Content
The member universities of the Unizin Consortium have unique, campus-based priorities for course materials. The pace of interest and passion in any particular topic varies by institution and its local priorities, yet Unizin institutions share...
4 Things I Learned at Unizin’s First Library Summit
Last week, librarians from Unizin’s member schools met with Unizin staff in Chicago to discuss common problems plaguing libraries. Their goal was to create a process for identifying and solving common problems encountered in supporting teaching...
Unizin Consortium Partners with IMS Global Learning Consortium to Drive Caliper Analytics Adoption
Unizin and IMS Global Learning Consortium are excited to announce a partnership aimed at driving Caliper adoption. IMS Global is leading the charge when it comes to enabling the collection and exchange of click-stream data across multiple...
Unizin Innovation Summit 2015: A Summary
This October 8-9, we hosted our first annual Unizin Innovation Summit. It was a great opportunity to meet new people, share updates about Unizin and see what kinds of things our Members are doing to improve the learning experience on their...
Courseload and Content Relay, Unizin’s Next Steps
In the last blog, I described the great opportunities that Courseload’s features bring to Unizin Members and emphasized lowering costs while enhancing user experience. In this blog, I want to describe how this acquisition is critical to...
Unizin Aims to Connect Learners and Content with the Addition of Courseload
We are thrilled to announce that we recently acquired the software and trademark assets of Courseload, Inc! Courseload Engage is a leading platform for delivering textbooks and other educational resources in digital form to students. It brings...
Enter 2015, from the CEO
Over two years ago, Brad Wheeler, Indiana University Professor and Chief Information Officer, wrote to his colleagues about the future of digital learning in higher education and how universities can pave a path toward scaling learning and...
Enter Unizin
The technology that supports teaching and learning is increasingly more like plumbing (the basic infrastructure that both enables and constrains) than like a shiny, eye-catching plumbing fixture. More important, this infrastructure is as...