Spring Fever Blossoms on the Wofford Campus

Signs of the imminent arrival of the scantily-clad student-bird have started appearing on the Wofford College campus. These signs include students studying outside, a proliferation of flip flops on feet everywhere, and conversation balloons appearing on the walls of buildings around campus:







Midterms are almost over. Enjoy your spring break and watch the campus for more signs of spring and its attendant high-jinks.

Digital textbooks will soon be the norm

According to the latest report from the social learning platform Xplana, in the next five years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of the market for higher education and career education sales.
The report goes on the summarize some of the factors influencing sales growth:

• cost of textbooks
• availability of digital content
• student buying and sharing trends
• continued growth of for-profit institutions and online learning

Read the report summary here or download the full report.

Reposted from The Centered Librarian.
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Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age

This post from A Curious View of the World blog (whose blogger found the study courtesy of KG Schneider on the Free Range Librarian blog) links to a report produced by Project Information Literacy from a study by Dr Allison J. Head and Dr Michael B. Eisenberg. Read the full report here:


Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age