Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade

From Canada Reads: Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade

Included are:

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Elle by Douglas Glover

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

The Birth House by Ami McKay

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Unless by Carol Shields

Students prefer print textbooks

From The Wired Campus: Students Remain Reluctant to Try E-Textbooks
"...76 percent of students would pick a printed book over an e-textbook if the choice was left entirely up to them."

Undergrads use of information technology

Educause has just released The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010.
Trends include increased use of mobile and cloud technology.

2010 Living Planet Report - WWF

From the WWF 2010 Living Planet Report:
"...humanity’s Ecological Footprint has doubled since 1966".

Cheating and on-line exams

In the latest issue of Journal of Distance Learning Administration:
Assessment Design and Cheating Risk in Online Instruction by Oskar R. Harmon, James Lambrinos and Judy Buffolino.

The article is discussed in Inside Higher Ed:
Proctor or Gamble

Access Sage Research Methods Online (trial) database via the RRU Library webpage

To access the Sage Research Methods Online (trial) database select the Search for Articles link at our webpage. After logging in scroll down the list of databases to Sage Research Methods Online. The trail ends Dec. 31, 2010.

Latest issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly available

Interesting articles on:

1. A Comparison of Student and Faculty Academic Technology Use Across Disciplines
2. Institutional Support for Faculty Teaching in an Online Learning Environment .