Learning Apps/Tools
- Universities Down Under Opt for Scopus
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9/20/2007
Australia's University of Queensland and Victoria University have chosen online abstract and citation database Scopus as a research performance measurement tool.
- Virtual LSAT Course Slated for Oct.
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9/20/2007
Test preparation company PowerScores' new Virtual LSAT Course will begin instruction in October for the Dec. 1 LSAT test. While PowerScore holds onsite test instruction, the online course offers students across the globe the chance to prepare remotely for the test from their homes or offices.
- 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.
- Georgia Tech Librarian, Prof To Loan Land in Second Life
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9/17/2007
Georgia Tech librarian Brian Matthews has teamed up with GT computer science professor Blaire MacIntyre to develop a space in the Second Life virtual world from which students could "check out" land parcels in order "to hang out, explore, and learn the basics of the software."
- NVCC Implements Web-Based Math Curricula
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9/14/2007
Naugatuck Valley Community College in Connecticut has deployed online math curricula for 11 of its remedial math classes this fall. The school is using Academic Systems Algebra from Plato Learning.
- AccessMyLibrary Offers 30 Million Free Articles
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9/12/2007
AccessMyLibrary is now providing students and educators returning to school with free Web access to almost 30 million online articles from a collection of more than 4,000 publications.
- MS Kicks Off 'Ultimate Steal' for Students
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9/12/2007
Microsoft has launched a new education promotion for students, enabling them to purchase Office Ultimate 2007 electronically for $59.95. The deal will run through April 2008.
- NI Powers Berkeley Embedded Systems Laboratory for EECS
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9/11/2007
National Instruments has partnered with University of California, Berkeley's College of Engineering to launch the NI Embedded Systems Laboratory on the UC Berkeley campus. The lab will be used for teaching and research in the area of graphical system design for all electrical engineering and computer sciences graduate students and upper division undergraduates, as well as for researchers from other departments.
- Virtual LSAT Course Slated for Oct.
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9/11/2007
Test preparation company PowerScores' new Virtual LSAT Course will begin instruction in October for the Dec. 1 LSAT test. While PowerScore holds onsite test instruction, the online course offer students across the globe the chance to remotely prepare for the test from their homes or offices.
- NSF Awards Spelman $2.5 Million for Informatics Project
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9/10/2007
The National Science Foundation awarded Atlanta's Spelman College a $2.5 million grant to set up an academic program in informatics, the the study of information analysis. The project, dubbed "Advancing Spelman's Participation in Informatics Research and Education," or ASPIRE, will develop an informatics program to increase "cross-discipline research and expertise" in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the college said.
- [Your College Here] Wants to Be Your 'Friend'
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9/6/2007
In the past five years, social networking has rocketed from a leisure activity to a "phenomenon that engages tens of millions of internet users," according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit that follows the impact of the internet in differing social environments. In a recent national survey on teenagers and social networking conducted by Pew, more than half of all online American youth ages 12 to 17— 55 percent to be precise—are heading to online social networking sites. What does this mean for higher ed? Simply this: Your incoming students are now expecting a presence of your college or university on social networking sites.
- C-Labs Digital Library Now Supports High Definition
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9/6/2007
Digital media service provider Cdigix has added HD capabilities to its C-Labs solutions. C-Labs are designed to provide tools for higher education faculty and institutions to maintain and post online digital media while complying with copyright laws.
- 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.
- Drexel Upgrades Internet Library as Learning Lab
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9/4/2007
Drexel University will collaborate with the University of Michigan and Florida State University to help transform its 10-year-old Internet Public Library (IPL) into a "virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference," the university announced.
- WeBWorK Ramps Up Online Homework Tool
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8/30/2007
Open-source homework system WeBWorK is being ramped up for new multimedia capabilities and enhanced assessment functionality. Developers met earlier this month at an American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) workshop to help fine tune the software and plan for these enhanced capabilities, some of which are presently in the developer release. An interim update (2.4.1) was also released last week, adding various minor improvements and fixes.
- 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.
- UNT Prof To Study Behavior of Student Software Teams
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8/28/2007
The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of North Texas computer science professor a half-million dollar grant to study the performance and behaviors of student software development work groups, the university announced.
- Stanford Student Hones 'Gaze-Based' Computer System
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8/27/2007
A Stanford University researcher has developed a system that advances "gaze-based" computing, enabling a person to use eye movements to interact with computers and surf the Web.
- UIUC Prof to Head Team Studying Advanced Multimedia
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8/27/2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign computer science professor Klara Nahrstedt was picked as chairman of one of the newest of the Association of Computing Machinery's famous special interest groups, this one focusing on advanced multimedia applications.
- Vols Football Goes High Tech
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8/23/2007
The University of Tennessee Volunteers football team has upped its game by being the first to apply the the PlayAction Simulator from XOS Technologies.
- 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.
- Webinar: Wikis and Web 2.0
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8/22/2007
- The Promise and Challenges of Integrating Interactive Technologies into University Pedagogy
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8/22/2007
Randy Jackson examines the quest at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, to create added value in existing learning environments.
- U Portland Deploys File-Sharing Software
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8/17/2007
The University of Portland recently deployed GroupDrive software from South River Technologies, a developer of file transfer and collaboration software, for online file sharing on its campus. The software will be used for student and faculty collaboration, as well as for the university's back office, and is designed to replace other forms of online file-sharing such as email, according to South River.
- Research: College Students Use Internet for Education ... Huh
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8/15/2007
Whatever else your students are doing on the Internet, they are using it for educational purposes as well. According to a study released last week by Houghton Mifflin, more than half of college students use the Internet "to keep up with course work and prepare for exams."
