Harvard, MIT to Offer Free Online Classes | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Quotable: “EdX courses will be available to anyone with an Internet connection…The first set of courses will be announced this summer, and begin in the fall of 2012.”
Interaction-Design.org — Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Great resource with 25 different chapters so far ranging on topics such as User Experience and Experience Design, End-User Development and Semiotics.
Quotable from the Website: “We’re on a mission to make free and open educational materials: There are so many great minds in the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design community and we want to empower these authors to reach all their interested readers around the world. We believe these authors have the minds to change the world and deserve a publishing venue truly designed for the author and the reader, not the publisher and the profit.”
Unique eBook content. I could see these types of eBooks value-added additions to film studies databases in academic libraries.
Warner Bros. intros ‘Inside the Script’ eBook series, gives film buffs a deeper look — Engadget.
Two of the LIS courses I took this winter were Information Architecture: Web Design for Usability and Emerging & Evolving Technologies. Both courses reviewed at some point usability and the user experience. Although one may think of websites or applications first when discussing usability and/or the user experience, the concept can be applied to any space or thing. There is a lot of choice out there for consumers – companies and organizations can improve the user experience to generate loyalty and increase brand awareness.
User Experience Is The Heart Of Any Company. How Do You Make It Top Priority? from FastCompany
Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer Relationships from FastCompany
User Experience And The Poison On The Tip Of The Arrow from TechCrunch
UX Design as a Two-Way Conversation from UX Magazine
Cognition & The Intrinsic User Experience from UX Magazine
User Experience: The Reason Apple Towers Over Sony from Gizmodo
5 Signs of a Great User Experience from ReadWriteWeb
Tiny Tips for Library Fun: Mentor, Mentees, Mentotum*
As mentioned in the article above here is the link to the ALA Emerging Leader Team E Survey posted at the ALSC Blog.
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