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- Ball State Dials in Network Management
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12/13/2007
Managing the network on a university campus may not be the most glamorous of jobs, but it's certainly a critical one. Just listen to the howls should the network go down. At Ball State University, 18,000 students and 3,000 faculty rely on some 50 routers, upwards of 400 switches, and 800 access points to use the wired and wireless network.
- Software Aids Collaborative Teaching and Learning at U Georgia
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12/12/2007
Active, collaborative learning is a laudable goal in the classroom, but with individual students at computers throughout the room, it's not always easy to achieve.
- BSU Standardizes on Apple Hardware for Dual-Boot Initiative
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12/11/2007
In the mixed computing environments common on university campuses, supporting multiple operating systems and myriad hardware configurations can be a nightmare for IT. In the past, one solution has been to go with a single platform. Great for IT. Not so great for users. But at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, they've come up with another solution....
- Snapshot: Firefox, IE Vie for Popularity Among College Students
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12/10/2007
To better understand the views, attitudes, and usage of various technologies and brands among college students, Eduventures conducted research of 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled full-time at a four-year college or university via a Web survey.
- University of Pennsylvania Library Serves Up Live, Chat-Based Help
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12/5/2007
Catering to the way students communicate, more and more university libraries are providing instant live chat services to users who need help while accessing the library over the Internet. For example, a chat screen may pop up when an online patron clicks on a Help tab from the library's main page. A librarian then corresponds via chat to answer the patron's question.
- Service-Oriented Disc Duplication at Penn State
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11/29/2007
Customer service in higher education comes in a multitude of offerings, from grand and glorious, such as student lifecycle initiatives involving complex six-figure CRM software, to small, narrow and--well--round, such as providing disc duplication services where a dime will buy a student all the data that can fit on a blank CD. Pennsylvania State University's Entrepreneurial Services addresses the latter category.
- Bloomsburg U Tailors Online Learning to the Deaf
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11/28/2007
"We're making it possible for deaf and hard of hearing people to have equal access to information via the Internet." That's according to Samuel Slike, an instructor and curriculum coordinator of the Education of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University.
- Snapshot: Academic Services Spending To Reach $1.2 Billion
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11/26/2007
Composed of professional services such as those supporting online education and faculty recruitment that help institutions support teaching and learning objectives, the academic services market is serving key postsecondary priorities.
- Inside the University of Virginia's Athletics Video Services Department
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11/21/2007
The 2007 college football season is winding down, and while the last of the autumn leaves falls lazily from the trees in Charlottesville, VA, there's no slowdown for Erik Elvgren, senior producer and animator at the University of Virginia's Athletics Video Services Department (AVS).
- Emergency Notification: Penn State Stays on Message
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11/15/2007
With 80,000 students and 24 campuses across a state that's intimately familiar with inclement weather, Pennsylvania State University clearly needs a reliable--and redundant--system of emergency notification.
- Podcasting on a Shoestring
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11/14/2007
A feisty online program director on a rock-bottom budget at a Los Angeles college is using free cast-off computers and help from an open source software startup to create podcasts of classroom lectures.
- Snapshot: Campus Infrastructure Computing Market
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11/12/2007
The infrastructure computing market is composed of technologies that support the collection and interconnection of computer, voice, video, and data, including the security and storage of information.
- Gallaudet Brings Accessibility to Classroom Capture
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11/7/2007
Students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, the only liberal arts university in the world for the deaf and hard of hearing, are benefiting from lecture capture software that includes closed captioning. That lets students view videos of lectures on demand, complete with text captions along the bottom of the screen.
- Snapshot: Functionality Preferences for Admissions Portals
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11/5/2007
Professional Web designers are skillful in creating integrated sites that make use of a range of technical functions, such as virtual tours, online chats and podcast downloads, as well as informational formats, including text, graphics, pictures, and so on. Eduventures explores what preferences prospective students have around these functions and formats.
- 4 Steps to Unified Communications
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11/1/2007
If you could design a massive technology project from the earliest stages all the way through deployment and complete and total user adoption, what would the plan look like? Perhaps it would resemble the Villanova University rollout of unified communications.
- Campus Security Report Card: C for Effort
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10/29/2007
Colleges and universities have done little over the last three years to improve information security. Hindered by lack of staff resources and funding, security efforts remain largely unchanged, while incidents of breaches--including the theft of personal information from within and without--continue to plague campuses. And, what's more, the integration of physical and IT security is still a reality in only a small minority of schools.
- Snapshot: Administrative Computing Spending in Higher Education
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10/29/2007
With the administrative computing market reaching $2.0 billion by 2010, growth drivers include increased use of data by administrators in institutional decision-making, use of CRM-type tools for enrollment management development, and into 2008-2010, introduction of new SOA architectures.
- Outsourcing IT for Online Education
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10/25/2007
Small and medium-size institutions looking for ways to beef up technology programs without adding staff might consider outsourcing some or all of IT. At Ocean County College on the coast of New Jersey, an outsourcing partnership has resulted in a popular and growing selection of online courses.
- Drexel Puts Course Capture To Work on Desktops
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10/24/2007
Audio and even video capture of lectures is becoming more common on college campuses, which post the material to their Web sites so that students can revisit a lecture after the fact. But Drexel University....
- Snapshot: Student Technology Spending in Higher Education
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10/22/2007
Despite the growing purchasing power of college students, recent survey results released by education consultancy Eduventures reveal that more than half (52 percent) of the students surveyed spend less than $250 of their own money on technology or electronic purchases each year.
- Speed AJAX Development with ATF
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10/18/2007
Businesses running data-intensive Web applications need Web pages that can update incrementally. The technology to do so has been accelerated since 2005, with the advent of open standards such as AJAX, which is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript (JS) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
- Can Classroom Capture Boost Retention Rates?
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10/17/2007
Results from an initial study by a professor at Coppin State University in Baltimore indicate that class capture technology that allows students to view lectures online after the fact can improve course retention rates and grades. Chris Brittan-Powell, a psychology professor at Coppin State, developed the study to see whether using technology from Tegrity helped student grades and retention in his courses over a semester.
- Snapshot: Academic Computing Software To Hit $419 Mil. by 2010
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10/15/2007
Spurred by growth in collaboration and communications technologies, the academic computing market is forecast to hit $419 million by 2010, according to a forecast from education consultancy Eduventures.
- Moodle Primer Part 2: Administering a Course
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10/10/2007
Regulation drives a surge in innovative solutions for stormwater treatment. As fun as creating a course in Moodle is (the subject of part 1 of this two-part series), eventually it will go live, and the real excitement can begin as administration kicks in. The first thing you will come to realize is that while you believed you had thought through every single thing, you missed about half.
- Digital Repositories: A Global Work Effort
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10/10/2007
Stanford University librarian Michael Keller will join other leading digital archiving experts November 14-16 in Paris for the inaugural meeting of the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, a group dedicated to working on the unique problems of storage and data management, workflow, and architecture for very large digital repositories. The Sun PASIG brings together a large group of organizations for an ongoing global discussion of their research and sharing of best practices for preservation and archiving. Here, CT asks Keller for his perspectives on the effort and the goals of the Sun PASIG.
