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- Moodle Primer Part 1: Creating a Class
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10/3/2007
In a recent article, I mentioned my newfound affection for the open-source course management system Moodle. It's a great CMS, but there's not a lot of current information available on it. So, in this two-part tutorial, we'll walk through the use of it, starting in Part 1 with the creation of a class and setting up the resources needed for it.
- 9 Best Practices for Implementing a CMS
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9/26/2007
Giving people the ability to update their slice of the campus website doesn't sound like a revolutionary idea--at least not in an era ruled by mass participation in social networks, the sharing of mashups, and the craze to add widgets to personal websites.
- Privacy Drives Directory Work at Northwestern
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9/20/2007
Even though FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, was signed into law in 1974, campuses continue struggling with how to control the distribution of information on students in ways that comply with the federal regulations.
- Western Oklahoma Serves Up Blended Math
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9/19/2007
At Western Oklahoma State College, students in a single classroom, with one instructor present, can be taking either of two introductory algebra classes. That's just one of the advantages the college has discovered in offering computerized online instruction to augment several of its developmental mathematics courses.
- Distributed Learning Expands Med School's Reach
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9/12/2007
A shortage of physicians in rural areas isn't a problem unique to Canada, but the highly sophisticated technology solution that the University of British Columbia has set up to solve it may well be.
- In Search of Good Governance
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9/12/2007
Since his retirement in 2005, UC Berkeley's Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO Emeritus John W. (Jack) McCredie has devoted much of his professional energy to studying, writing about, and speaking about IT governance and leadership in higher education. Currently an ECAR senior fellow, he is leading Educause's study of IT governance to be released in early 2008. CT asked McCredie for his perspectives on IT governance issues.
- Northwestern University Turns to Service Assurance: A Case Study
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9/12/2007
Northwestern University is using a service assurance application to verify and measure the quality and performance of its next-generation IP network and services.
- Teaching with Technology: Facilitating the Process (Part 2)
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9/5/2007
Colleges and universities across the nation have realized that technology is an absolute when considering how courses on their campuses will be delivered--either face to face sessions, through distance learning sessions, or in mixed formats.
- Teaching with Technology: Facilitating the Process
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8/29/2007
Instructors in colleges of education cannot teach prospective teachers to use technology unless the faculty, themselves, use technology in the college of education classrooms as a part of their instruction. There is something about "modeling" that goes a long way in education, regardless of the level of education under consideration.
- Community College on Hold with Phone Notification
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8/23/2007
Sometimes, being ahead of the game can be a drawback. Raritan Valley Community College, in Somerville, NJ, earlier this year created a text message-based emergency notification system for inclement weather notifications, well before the Virginia Tech tragedy. So what's the problem?
- How Dartmouth Produces Video Podcasts
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8/22/2007
With an $8,000 investment, Dartmouth's Department of Physics and Astronomy has set up the capability to provide video podcasts for courses that enable students to watch lectures they may have missed or that warrant review.
- What Is the CIO's Job, Anyway?
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8/16/2007
What is the CIO's job, anyway? Is it to know the nuts and bolts about every piece of software and hardware on campus? Is it to know "the seven layers" and be ready to get in there to fix an e-mail server? Apparently, there are those on campus who still look at the head "IT guy" that way.
- University of Delaware Responds to Classroom Clickers
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8/14/2007
Any instructor who has had the experience Duncan describes can appreciate the idea of using clickers, or personal response devices, to gauge student participation and understanding.
- Inside Indiana U's Move to ChaCha
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8/8/2007
Indiana University's alliance with search firm ChaCha, announced last week, may portend how universities, librarians, and Internet search engines will work together in the future.
- 2007 Campus Technology Innovators
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8/3/2007
We proudly profile the winners of this year’s competition for outstanding technology innovation on college and university campuses in the United States.
- Putting a Web-Enabled Database To Work at Syracuse University
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8/2/2007
As Director of the Student Records Office for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse, I oversee the processing of a vast mass of student data--who's who, who's where, and who's taking what course from whom.
- They Can See Clearly Now
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7/30/2007
Anyone who has taken a lab where 24 students strain to watch--and subsequently, replicate--a chemistry experiment knows just how difficult the task can be....
- Making the Case for Student Lifecycle Management
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7/25/2007
By carefully evaluating and implementing SLM technology, institutions can help improve student relationship management and establish their institution as not only a source for high-quality education, but also a partner in the student experience.
- Ball State Rolls Out HD in Digital Media Project
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7/24/2007
A years-long project at Ball State University to digitize a huge range of content is being expanded to include high-definition TV in its offerings.
- U Cincinnati Links Blackboard to Text Messaging
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7/18/2007
While many colleges and universities scramble to get an emergency messaging system in place in the wake of the Virginia Tech mass murder, the University of Cincinnati is already there.
- Temple U Solves Content Management Challenge
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7/11/2007
With roughly half a million pages of content on more than 500 well used Web sites, Temple University faced a huge challenge in getting content management under control.
- Mining Data To Find Gold
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7/5/2007
At Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD, colorful screen displays can tell a dean or provost at a glance and a click of the mouse what a faculty member's course load is, how heavily a classroom is being utilized, and even how many students from a specific high school have applied and been accepted to date.
- Classroom Support at UNCC Goes Both Ways
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7/5/2007
A simple two-way digital intercom system installed in classrooms at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has greatly reduced the support department's response time. And although it hasn't been used for an emergency yet, the intercom system can also serve to instantly broadcast a single message to all or some classrooms at once.
- Student Ambassadors for Open Source
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6/29/2007
A conversation with Dinesh Bahal about the Campus Ambassador Program at Sun Microsystems.
- Open Source Connects Courseware at Rice University
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6/26/2007
As the Internet rapidly reshapes how scholarly information is disseminated at colleges and universities, an open-source, open-community initiative at Rice University in Houston may portend the future.
