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7/19/2005
Colleges and universities that are disappointed in the performance of their audio visual equipment often look for the next step up–a brighter projector, a newer codec, a camera with more pixels, or a more expensive control system.
7/5/2005
I was re-reading “Learning for the 21st Century” the other day as background material on a forthcoming undergraduate teacher preparation project. I was struck by how well the report navigates the political waters of educational reform, so decided to use this Viewpoint to bring this report to the attention of those who have not yet read it.
6/28/2005
The latest releases, services, and new product versions.
6/28/2005
When technology experts are involved from the get-go, "smart classroom" construction projects are dramatically improved and less costly.
6/21/2005
It was a daring experiment, and one that caught immediate criticism because some saw the university as “giving away toys” to the incoming freshman class. Well, iPods are ‘toys’ in a sense, and of course they were mostly used for entertainment. But some pretty interesting lessons were learned.
6/14/2005
The University of Arizona’s Learning Technologies Center (LTC) provides centralized support for instructional blogging and hosts blogs for administrative units exploring new ways to provide information to students.
6/14/2005
Online course offerings are becoming increasingly more common in education. Nearly three million U.S. students are currently taking university level courses online and more than half of all higher education institutions see online education as critical to their long-term strategy.
5/31/2005
After a market lull, AV vendors finally have dazzling tools and technologies
for "smart" educators.
5/31/2005
With our first NCATE visitation two years away, the University of San Diego was in search of a viable mechanism for formal and summative assessment.
5/16/2005
While the presence of CMS has grown, wonderful new collaborative communication tools such as blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds have emerged and are often informally and immediately adopted by the “new learner.”
5/16/2005
We have begun to leverage the students’ comfort level with synchronous communication tools to foster collaboration in online learning environments.
5/2/2005
This fall the Missouri School of Journalism will offer students a new major, the first change of that magnitude in more than 50 years. The 1,000 or so undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the world’s first school of journalism can now specialize in convergence as well as the traditional disciplines of advertising, broadcast news, magazine, newspaper and photojournalism.
5/2/2005
In April I attended the Apple Digital Leadership Institute hosted by the University of Missouri.
4/29/2005
We’ve all talked about synchronous online collaboration, but new tools may allow us to truly “know” this kind of collaboration for the first time.
4/4/2005
Not sharing the CMS is a missed opportunity to bridge some of the gaps between instruction and administrative areas.
3/14/2005
The University of Minnesota is implementing ePortfolio in a major way. Other colleges and universities are in various stages, some starting with pilot projects. How will this new tool fit into the lives of students and faculty.
3/1/2005
Did you know the next big thing in educational technology is probably something you’ve never even heard of? Believe it. Digital Content Servers are coming that will make life easier for everyone on campus using PowerPoint and other digital media as part of their lectures and presentations.
10/29/2004
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