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Just in case you didn’t know about this exciting thing….

Create Interactive e-Learning Courses with Microsoft LCDS

Via Digital Inspiration

For educators: LCDS Author (Learning Content Development System) is a free software from Microsoft that lets you create and publish e-learning courses.

You can include software simulations, interactive Flash content (such as Drag and Drop, tile puzzle game, etc.) and the regular true-false / multiple choice style questions in your e-learning content.

Once you are done authoring the course, it can pre-viewed in the web browser and you may then publish it as a SCORM 1.2 Package for hosting in any Learning Management System (LMS).

EDUCAUSE Releases Latest Review And 7 Things (Ning!)

Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

The May/June 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available online. This issue includes articles about the top ten IT issues in higher education, the search for certitude (librarians should definitely read this one), broadband connectivity and the usual columns including one that features an interview with Jim Neal.

EDUCAUSE also made available its latest release in the “7 Things You Should Know About” series. The latest one covers Ning which is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. Access it here.

U of Chicago building giant underground library

Steven Bell says:

At the University of Chicago, where the student hangout is the library and a prize is awarded annually for undergraduate book collecting, officials announced Monday plans to build another tribute to the university’s bookish character. A glass-domed, mostly underground library, to be built just west of the Joseph Regenstein Library, will have space for 3.5 million volumes, allowing the university to keep its entire collection on campus as other top academic libraries are building off-site facilities to store books. The new library comes as universities are digitizing their collections and moving books from overflowing stacks to off-campus storage sites. Read more here

And I say, isn’t this interesting? wonder where the $$ is coming from?