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3/7/2007
East Carolina University in Greenville, NC is implementing Saba-Centra Live from software provider Saba to support distance learning through the university's academic outreach program.
3/7/2007
Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences has selected Spacenet as the provider of satellite network services for its new mobile telemedicine unit, the Telemedicine Center.
3/7/2007
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has implemented a data management system from Information Builders to track and analyze data across multiple departments.
3/6/2007
Colgate University recently implemented NetMRI E-400, a network analysis and reporting tool from Netcordia.
3/6/2007
World-wide Web "inventor" Tim Berners-Lee made a rare public appearance last week to talk to federal legislators about the "digital future of the United States."
3/6/2007
A recent survey by the Digital Learning Lab at Howard University shows that 40 of 103 historically black colleges and universities are offering distance courses this year, up from 29 a year ago.
3/6/2007
The best college programmers in the world are getting ready to compete at the 31st World Finals of International Collegiate Programming Contest, which will take place in Tokyo March 12-16.
3/6/2007
A social website that helps students evaluate prospective professors will now let professors express their opinions about the reviews.
3/6/2007
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) released a statement last week outlining its perspective on the controversial issue of free or "open" access to scholarly literature, including scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal articles.
3/6/2007
Last week we reported that the University of Washington was offering an introductory course on Google programming developed by a Google employee who was dissatisfied with the quality of computer science learning arriving with the company's latest college recruits.
3/6/2007
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has joined forces with a local law school--Albany Law School--to jointly offer two master degree programs in the fall of 2007 that focus on the legal underpinnings of technology development, incubation, and intellectual property.
3/6/2007
The former program director of a University of California office that manages online learning turned himself into police after a Santa Cruz County superior court judge issued a warrant for his arrest, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.
3/5/2007
Pennsylvania's Villanova University has upgraded and expanded its WLAN infrastructure, replacing its legacy network with Meru Networks' Wireless LAN System.
3/5/2007
The Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched two websites using SystemExecutive from Systems Alliance, an IT and business consulting firm.
3/5/2007
SunGard Higher Education has debuted a new tool for recruiting, admissions, and retention management. Designed specifically for higher education, the new technology--Banner Enrollment Management Suite (BEMS)--is designed....
3/2/2007
Wilkes University in Pennsylvania said it will be switching over to the Mac OS X platform across the campus.
3/1/2007
Second Life, the virtual world that's becoming increasingly popular in education, will soon add proximity-based 3D voice capabilities, according to developer Linden Lab.
3/1/2007
Education software developer Angel Learning has announced a new version of its learning management system, Angel LMS 7.2.
3/1/2007
Academic publisher Thomson Learning this week announced that it's adopting technologies from Sakai Foundation for the delivery of its learning products for higher education.
3/1/2007
According to Regent Education, a developer of financial aid management software for higher ed, seven community colleges in California have adopted and gone live live with its Regent Enterprise Financial Aid Management (FAM) software.
2/28/2007
Despite the wave of social media such as FaceBook, blogs, and instant messaging invading higher ed campuses, fewer than 8 percent of higher-ed marketers use such alternative channels to reach prospective students, according to a recent survey by advertising and marketing firm Media Logic Inc.
2/28/2007
XY Media Solution announced the launch of AdReply: a response tracker that gives real-time data for university and college enrollment campaigns.
2/28/2007
Berklee College of Music's human resource department has gone paperless by employing ImageNow from Perspective Software Inc.
2/27/2007
Software developer Desire2Learn is lowering the ante for campus-wide CMS/LMS adoption.
2/27/2007
The Association for Computing Machinery named Frances Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for a career full of contributions that it said "fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems and accelerated the use of high-performance computing."
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