Intellidemia is updating its online syllabus application to include files and generate real-time alerts. The company's newest release of Concourse includes functionality that enables users to embed file content directly in the syllabus and notify students automatically when edits or changes have been made.
Westwood College, a for-profit institution, will be implementing learning materials from Cengage Learning for its 18 physical and online campuses. The institution, which has 18,000 students, will be using textbooks, online courseware, homework tools, instructional design, and online delivery from the company.
Information technology has taken us well beyond the collection-and-search of information archives. Educators should consider how they will respond to an era in which the teaching and learning conversations must center not around pre-existing, "finished" and past-tense information, but around information that is currently being created in the "continuous tense."
The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) program recognizes a broad range of creative uses of the Sakai collaborative learning environment for teaching and learning. If your institution is using Sakai in innovative ways, here’s some basic information you might want to read about TWSIA and how to submit a nomination for the 2010 awards.
Establishing ties between domestic and international colleges is one thing, but when the overseas institution has been forced into exile by its home country, the situation becomes a bit more complex.
Giving students a Web-based tutorial on plagiarism is more effective in deterring the behavior than threatening students with detection and punishment. That's according to the results of an experiment conducted by professors at the University of Michigan and Swarthmore College and published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A company in the digital textbook business is wooing new users by allowing students and faculty to try its books free for a week.
As anticipated, Apple formally unveiled its new mobile device, the $499 iPad, Wednesday, heralding the company's entry into the space currently dominated by netbooks and its first serious move into the category of electronic book readers.
Kaltura has released video extensions for both Moodle, an open source course management system, and Joomla, an open source content management platform. The extensions allow site-builders for either application to manipulate video and other rich media on their sites, including content management, syndication, monetization, transcoding, uploading, importing, and editing.
More than 4.6 million college and university students took at least one course online in 2008--more than a quarter of all post-secondary students in the United States. This represents 17 percent growth over the previous year, drastically outpacing higher education's overall enrollment growth rate of 1.2 percent in the same period, according to a new report released this week.