Milestone Documents at AHA 2012 - Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:01:38 +0000
Next week several of us will be off to Chicago for the American Historical Association annual meeting. This will be our second year exhibiting under the Milestone Documents banner, and this year we’ll be showing off a new booth design. We’re also giving away prizes and are sponsoring a reception on Friday evening, Jan. 6. Below is a [...] Read more.
Four Key Trends in the Textbook Industry - Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:14:16 +0000
We’ve just published an interesting case study about Jonathan Rees, who was one of the initial adopters of our Milestone Documents primary source reader. The article describes how Jonathan came to the decision to ditch his textbook and utilize Milestone Documents instead:
Inspired by his colleague, Rees simply eliminated the text from his class, opting to rely on his PowerPoint-based [...] Read more.
Battling the Textbook-Industrial Complex: One Indy Publisher's Perspective - Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:17:31 +0000
“The thing is, it’s going to be a Microsoft vs. Google battle. Box isn’t even in the picture. We get squeezed as the two giants tangle. They can afford to subsidize storage to get users on their platform.”
The quote above is from a letter written by Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box.net, to one of his [...] Read more.
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Off the Beaten Path: Ditching the Text to Get in Step with Students -
Jonathan Rees remembers the day a colleague told him that she didn?t use a textbook in their survey class. Rees, a Colorado State University at Pueblo history professor, thought to himself, ?You can do that?!? It was a watershed for Rees, who was increasingly feeling that the textbooks he assigned were working against his[...] Read more.
Featured Documents: Week of January 30 -
The “Doc of the Day” entries for this week range from Adolf Hitler’s Proclamation to the German People to the Interstate Commerce Act. This week we also feature Ptolemy’s “Letter to Flora,” part of our World Religions content. Below is an overview of this week’s seven featured docu[...] Read more.
Featured Documents: Week of January 23 -
The “Doc of the Day” entries for this week range from Robert E. Lee’s letter to Custis Lee to the Hindu Laws of Manu. This week we also feature Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, part of our World History content. Below is an overview of this week’s seven featured documents, including th[...] Read more.
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