Collaboration & Web 2.0


Facebook, YouTube Top List of Best Recruitment Tools, Study Finds

Schools are spending less on traditional media for their recruitment initiatives choosing instead to divert—and increase—those dollars to social media efforts, according to a new study from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Hult International Business School Reaches Out to Alumni with LinkedIn's College Pilot Program

Hult International Business School is one of six universities selected to participate in LinkedIn's College Pilot Program.

Ellucian Colleague Intelligent Learning Platform Adds Repository Feature

Ellucian has introduced Colleague Intelligent Learning Platform 3.2. The platform, originally introduced in 2010 by Datatel, brings together course management, grading, student information management, and collaboration tools.

Kaltura Boosts LMS Integration with New Version of Cross Campus Media Suite

Kaltura, an open source online video platform developer, has released a new version of Cross Campus Media Suite, a video solution designed for educational institutions that is optimized to deliver video on a variety of devices and manage media content across multiple systems.

U Central Florida Shifts LMS

The University of Central Florida (UCF) has selected a new learning management system following two semester-long pilot projects that involved 20 faculty members and nearly 900 students.



Blackboard Learn Adds NCATE Integration

Blackboard has integrated standards for teacher preparation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education into Blackboard Learn.

Testing Tool Adds Integration with Blackboard LMS

The collaboration tool automatically syncs data between ExamSoft and BlackBoard Learn.

Carnegie Mellon CIO: "Deep Collaboration" Key to Higher Ed Transformation

Is improving the effectiveness of education a more difficult task than discovering the Higgs boson particle? Joel Smith thinks perhaps it is.

Bluefield College Adopts New LMS

The private, liberal arts college takes a hybrid course completely online with its new learning management system.

RIT Beefs Up Video Captioning Service for Hard of Hearing Students

Students at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) now have access to improved course video captioning, a service that is particularly important for the students of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of RIT's colleges.