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Lessons Learned During Unizin’s First Early Adopter Program
Reading Between the Lines Institutions are changing the way they think about content creation and how content is used within a course. To that end, course design is becoming a...
Unizin Consortium Members See Faster Migration to New LMS
An essential aspect of Unizin’s mission as a consortium of higher education institutions is to foster collaboration between our Members to encourage the sharing of ideas, models,...
Engage Saves Students $12 million at Indiana University
In 2013, Indiana University began using an eReader called Courseload Engage to provide students with affordable textbooks and improve digital teaching and learning on their campus. Engage is designed...
Ohio State Builds Better Books with Book Launch
In July 2014, The Ohio State University Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) created Book Launch, a program that allows students, faculty, and staff at Ohio State to write...
Same Mission, New Nonprofit: Unizin, Ltd.
Nearly two years ago, an idea to improve higher education through digital technologies took shape as Unizin. During that time, we at Unizin have had the privilege of seeing first-hand...
EPUB and Accessibility
This is an exciting period for content authoring and publishing in higher education. A paradigm is emerging of tools, standards, practices, and processes that promise to accelerate and...
Student Perspective: How I Use My LMS
My university transitioned from Blackboard to Canvas as its primary LMS. Faculty leaders went through a long process to determine that the system was the best fit for us. But when you...
Everyone Wins with the Institutional Model
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...