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- Web-Based Learning at Dalhousie U Connects Canadian Students
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6/20/2007
Software tools that allow colleges and universities to deliver classes over the Internet, either standalone or as a component of a traditional face to face class, are nothing new. But personalizing the online experience beyond slides can be a challenge.
- NYU College of Dentistry Takes Textbooks Online
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6/13/2007
Today's students have little patience for trudging to the library and researching a question on paper. For better or worse, they're far more likely to jump online and use tools like Google and Wikipedia to try to find answers quickly.
- Santa Ana College Takes Grading Online
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6/6/2007
A free product that helps make writing assignments less subjective and more understandable to students is saving Santa Ana College Professor John Howe huge amounts of time and helping him grade writing assignments much more consistently.
- Collaborate!
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6/1/2007
Campus collaboration tools are getting more powerful daily as schools learn to exploit meeting, conferencing, and class capture applications, not to mention wikis and open source CMS.
- Culture Morph
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6/1/2007
Technologists and librarians are discovering that intelligent organizational overlap is the route to the digital library of the future.
- U of Tennessee MBAs See the Light with Data Visualization Software
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5/30/2007
Students in Professor Mary Holcomb's MBA courses at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville are spending less time figuring out how to manipulate data and more time learning how to make good decisions from that data.
- OSU Adopts Hybrid Backup Approach
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5/24/2007
A new backup and restore system at Oregon State University Foundation has reduced weekly backup time for the system administrator from days, to just 90 minutes. "I'd hate to think how my Mondays would be without it," said Systems and Database Administrator Lyle Utt.
- Hybrid Learning: Maximizing Student Engagement
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5/23/2007
I became involved with hybrid teaching simply as a common-sense approach to the challenge of transitioning traditional faculty from classroom to online learning environments while I was director of a center for instructional technology at a university in the South.
- When Ideas Move without Friction
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5/23/2007
An interview with the Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen about the future of collaboration and technology.
- Resident E-Learning: Podcasting Makes the Rounds at USC Medical School
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5/16/2007
Like most medical residents, Paul Sucgang regularly puts in 80-hour weeks as a third-year resident at USC's Keck School of Medicine's family practice residency program in Los Angeles.
- The American University and the Ownership of Ideas
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5/9/2007
The Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen is one of the high-powered attorneys representing the challenge to Blackboard Inc.'s patent of certain learning technologies.
- Portal System Keeps Students, Alumni in Touch at Plymouth State U
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5/2/2007
By giving current students and all alumni a lifetime e-mail account accessed through a portal, Plymouth State University has enhanced its ability to stay in touch with graduates long after they leave the university.
- Dare To Share
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5/1/2007
Pressed for dollars and resources, smaller institutions of higher education are discovering that sharing software, data management, and expertise is key to DDD success.
- Evolutionary in Technology, Revolutionary in Impact
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4/25/2007
Ken Klingenstein has led national networking initiatives for the last 25 years. He's participated in the development of the Internet from its inception and says he's had one of the best seats to watch the evolution of network infrastructure and applications.
- Software Boosts Math Success Rates at Black Hills State U
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4/25/2007
An artificial-intelligence based tutoring system that gauges student understanding of math and helps them learn at their own pace has greatly boosted student progress and retention in college algebra at Black Hills State University.
- Outsourcing CMS in Iowa
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4/18/2007
The Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC), made up of seven community colleges, is using an outsourced LMS to offer its online courses to students across Iowa....
- Can We Protect the Next Virginia Tech?
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4/16/2007
This morning I woke up (on the West Coast) to news of yet another horrific report of a school or campus massacre—one of “monumental” proportions at Virginia Tech....
- Once More unto the Breach
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4/13/2007
This month's announcement of a potential data security breach at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) may have come as a shock to the 46,000....
- Text Messaging Service Keeps UF Students in the Loop
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4/11/2007
At the University of Florida, about 10,000 of the school's nearly 50,000 students have subscribed to Mobile Campus since it was introduced.
- Classroom Recordings Augment Lectures at U of Alabama
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4/4/2007
Products that can record a classroom lecture and make it available after the fact sometimes raise concerns that class attendance will drop off as a result.
- Audio in an Asynchronous Learning Environment
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4/3/2007
As with any higher educational institution, the University of Advancing Technology seeks to engage students on a multitude of levels. In the Summer of 2006....
- Serving the Online Learner
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4/1/2007
Systems and services for recruiting, advising, and support of online students have seldom been at the top of the list when planning online and distance learning programs. That is now changing: Forces pushing advising and support services into the foreground include recognition of the student learner as “customer” and the increasing expectations and demands of government and business in our global information economy.
- The Rise of the CISO
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4/1/2007
The ‘chief information security officer’ role is increasingly important for higher ed, as new cyber security challenges loom on the horizon.
- Online Tutorials Grab the Attention of Philadelphia U
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3/28/2007
"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
- Multi-Point Videoconferencing at Indiana University
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3/21/2007
In a state full of distinguished colleges and universities, Indiana University has a long history as an early adopter of advanced media technologies.
