Click here to receive your FREE subscription to Campus Technology
9/21/2005
“Switching to ANGEL was easier than we expected, and we’re glad we did.” It’s common feedback from institutions that switch to ANGEL from other course management systems. ANGEL’s migration tools make switching easy, and the payoff is big – higher adoption rates, tools that save instructors’ time, engaged students. Find out for yourself why ANGEL users are glad they switched.
Click here to read their stories.
By Helen L. Chen
Stanford University
Who are the students entering today’s colleges and universities? Sometimes referred to as the Net Generation or Millennials (students born in or after 1982), we know that this is a group that has never known a world without computers and the Internet. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released a study on “Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 year olds” which found that not only are children and teens interacting with media (including TV, videos, music, video games, computers, movies and print) for non-school activities on average 6 hours per day, but a quarter to a third of these students are multi-tasking, and using another form of media while reading, using a computer, or listening to music. Video game designer and writer Marc Prensky uses the metaphor of digital natives vs. digital immigrants to suggest that these kinds of experiences (video game playing, interactions via instant messaging, email, and cell phones, watching MTV) have actually changed the physical structure of digital natives’ brains, how they think, and consequently how they learn.
:::::: NETWORK SECURITY
: Delivering Slices of Network Securely at USC:::::: CAMPUS SECURITY NEWS
: VMware Finds Home on Campus in Disaster Recovery Planning:::::: FOCUS
:: Lyon's 1:1 Laptop Program Aims To 'Level the Playing Field' for Students
:::::: IT NEWS
:: Windows XP's Death Is for Real, Microsoft Rep Explains:::::: EXECUTIVE VIEW
: The Educational Software Paradox - Can We Learn to Unlearn?:::::: WORTH NOTING
: D2L: Blackboard's Comments 'Contempt(ible)':::::: VIEWPOINT
: Podcasting in Instruction: Moving Beyond the Obvious:::::: NEWS and PRODUCT UPDATES
: D2L: Blackboard's Comments 'Contempt(ible)':::::: NEWS
: Sao Paulo University Taps Sun Technology for Computing Cluster:::::: CASE STUDY
:: Job Scheduling Software Smooths Data Transfers at IUF
:::::: IT NEWS
:: Blackboard Continues Pursuit of Desire2Learn