Campus Technology News


Citizens in Space Competition Seeks Entries

Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, is asking the public to dream up and build space hardware in exchange for a shot at cash prizes up to $10,000.

Civitas Launches New Community To Improve Learning Analytics

Civitas Learning has launched a new learning community designed to improve "key academic outcomes in higher education," according to information released by the company.

Blackboard's New Android App Supports Facebook and Twitter

Blackboard Inc has released a new Blackboard Connect app for Android that lets users create and send messages directly from mobile devices, both to users and on social media channels like Facebook and Twitter.

34 Washington Colleges Migrate to Cloud-Based LMS

The 34 institutions that make up the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges are dropping their legacy LMS and moving to a cloud-based system.

CornellNYC Tech Partners With Google For Office Space During Campus Completion

CornellNYC Tech will receive the use of 22,000 square feet of office space from Google to build the school's presence in New York while its campus is being constructed.

Hendrix College Launches Site with Responsive Web Design

Hendrix College has launched a new Web site that optimizes its content based on the screen width and orientation of the mobile device or computer the user is using.

VitalSource Now Compliant with Education Tech Interop Standard

A company with an e-textbook platform for delivering digital textbooks to students has been certified as conforming to IMS Global Learning Consortium's Learning Tools Interoperability v1.1 standards.

St. Petersburg Student Programmers Win 'World's Smartest' Trophy

For five hours last week 112 university teams put their coding skills to work to vie for title of World Champions in the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.

U Kansas Boosts Workflow Efficiency

U Kansas will expand deployment of Perceptive Software workflow management solutions to bolster efficiency across campus.

Caltech Boosts Communication for Remote Project Teams

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