On March 23, Janet Simons of Hamilton College, David Baird of Colgate University and Chris Watts of St. Lawrence University will host a NERCOMP event on media scholarship, student outcomes, multidisciplinary learning processes, and coordinated academic support in courses with multimodal communication assignments.

Reed College’s Trina Marmarelli, instructional technologist, and Martin Ringle, chief technology officer, have published a summary report of Reed’s Kindle study (.pdf).

Haverford College returns long-lost letter from French philosopher Rene Descartes to Institut de France. Reflecting on “our ever-shrinking world, when strangers become friends and then partners at the click of a mouse,” President Steve Emerson points to the importance of “show[ing], by example, what it means for scholars and citizens to collaborate for the common good.”