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Prize Rewards Teaching Innovation THE MINERVA PROJECT, an organization that aims to redefine higher education with a new type of university, recently announced the launch of the Minerva Academy, a society of educators led by Nobel Laureate Roger Kornberg. The group will select and award its inaugural US$500,000 Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education, the largest prize of its kind, to a single educator whose innovations in teaching have led to extraordinary student learning experiences. The large prize signals the Minerva Project's ambition to revolutionize higher education. In fall 2015, the organization plans to open a university with no campus, tenure, or sports teams. Instead, students will take all their courses online in small interactive groups, while living and learning together in a sequence of traditional dormitories in cities around the world. Nominations for the Minerva Prize are open through November 30 at www.minervaproject.com/ academy. The first prize will be awarded May 2014. Students Prefer Smartphones SMARTPHONES HAVE surpassed desktop computers among college students when it comes to completing their coursework. That's according to a fall 2012 survey from OnCampus Research, a division of the National Association of College Stores. n Nearly 55 percent of students who t responded to the survey use smartvey phones for coursework—only 31 ork—only reported that they still use ill a desktop. Laptops still come out on top, with th 91 percent of students ts using them to study. Digital Public Library Opens ON APRIL 18, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) officially opened its virtual doors. The library includes 2 million items, including 1.2 million digital copies from the National Archives catalog. Among them are documents from the founding of the United States, World War II posters, and Mathew Brady Civil War photographs. The DPLA is a two-year large-scale collaboration across government agencies, research institutions, museums, libraries, and archives. The project's coordinators are working with digital content providers such as the National Archives and Harvard University to share content from their online catalogs. DPLA's goal is to ten become a public online repository of tens of milbec lions of artifacts from American culture and history. lion Daniel Cohen will be the DPLA's founding executive director. Cohen also directs the Roy ex Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Ro at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. G For more information, visit the library's website at dp.la. d BizEd July/August 2013 55

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