Learning Apps/Tools
- 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.
- Profs Building Open-Source Educational Gaming Engine
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8/13/2007
Washington State University Vancouver professor Scott Wallace and University of Puget Sound computer science professor Andrew Nierman were recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a gaming engine designed to make learning computer science more absorbing for students.
- Online Training for Online Faculty
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8/8/2007
A checklist of the best strategies for designing and delivering online courses to train online faculty.
- Google Offers Researchers a 'Drink from the Fire Hose'
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8/7/2007
Google Inc. announced it would make two new services available to the higher education research community--access to Web search and machine translations--as part of a new University Research Programs effort. The search firm made the announcement at its higher ed Faculty Summit held July 26 to 27 in Mountain View, CA.
- Indiana U Partners with ChaCha for Academic Search
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8/6/2007
Indiana University has partnered with Internet search service ChaCha, also based in Indiana, to create an alliance for developing research tools and services via the Web. IU President Michael A. McRobbie, who made the announcement, was previously on ChaCha's board of directors, though, according to a ChaCha spokeswoman, he resigned the position when he became president-elect of IU "so as not to have any conflicts of interest."
- Multiple Universities Deploy Xythos Document Management
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8/3/2007
More than a dozen colleges and universities have joined the ranks of campuses using technology from Xythos Software to collaborate with, store, share and manage their documents.
- Penn State Launches Cable Television Network
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7/31/2007
Penn State University Wednesday launched Penn State On Demand, a collaboration with cable provider Comcast to provide its 2.4 million Pennsylvania customers high speed access to hundreds of hours of programming produced by the university.
- 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....
- Aviation University Launches Worldwide Virtual Classroom
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7/27/2007
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL) has debuted EagleVision, a Web-enabled, collaborative virtual classroom designed for aviation and aeronautical education.
- CA Community Colleges Deploy Web Conferencing System
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7/18/2007
The California Community College System (CCCS) is deploying an enterprise-wide Web conferencing solution from Elluminate called Elluminate Live! CCCS is the largest higher education system in the world.
- iPod Course Design
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7/18/2007
You can almost hear the sigh of relief today, as more and more students review course requirements and see that they will be learning, creating, and presenting with their iPods, as well as reading text and listening to course content with them. The Apple iPod and its related set of technologies are bringing a freshness, spontaneity, and engagement to learning experiences that we haven’t seen in a while; possibly, ever. Why are these small devices having such an impact?
- Glendale Community College Gets $200,000 Engineering Gift
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7/17/2007
Glendale Community College in California has received a gift of $200,000 worth of Autodesk Inventor Professional software from engineering firm Brinderson & Associates. The gift came through the Autodesk Invest in Education program.
- Universities Go Virtual with Live Classroom
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7/17/2007
Eight colleges and universities have recently adopted Live Classroom, a collaboration tool designed for higher education that allows institutions to build virtual classrooms and conduct courses online.
- A New Executive Director for Sakai
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7/11/2007
Michael Korcuska will become the Sakai Foundation’s new executive director later this month, leading the Sakai community in the continued development of its open source collaboration and learning environment.
- Northwestern Releases Open-Source File Bridge
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7/11/2007
Northwestern University has developed an extension for Blackboard systems that allows the CMS to communicate with Xythos applications. The tool, File Bridge, is being made available to colleges and universities as open-source software.
- SciTalks.com Offers Lecture Video Search Site
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7/11/2007
In the same vein as YouTube, SciTalks.com (Boston, MA) has launched a searchable online collection of science lecture video files from across the world. Currently 1,000 lectures are online, with new videos being added daily.
- IBM, Indian Universities Develop Curriculum for 'Service Scientists'
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7/10/2007
IBM Corp. has cut a series of curriculum development deals with Indian universities designed to train students in the field of "service science," skills associated with the burgeoning market for offshore technical services and support.
- Duke, UNC Invent Service-Oriented Architecture Game
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7/10/2007
IBM is using "serious game" technology developed by graduate students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina to help explain the concept of service-oriented architecture to potential customers.
- Review and Benchmarks: Apple 13-Inch MacBook
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7/9/2007
After a little more than a year, Apple's entry-level MacBook line of notebook computers is now in its third generation. Sporting upgrades to wireless networking, CPU performance, and storage capacity....
- Interactive Version of 'Holt Biology' Unveiled
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6/28/2007
Secondary education publisher Holt Rinehart and Winston (Atlanta, GA) has unveiled its Interactive Online Edition of Holt Biology, which includes various interactive features such as downloadable English and Spanish audio readings for replay on portable audio players, such as iPods.
- 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.
- Elluminate Releases Live! V8
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6/26/2007
Education technology developer Elluminate has released Elluminate Live! V8, an update to the company's flagship e-learning, conferencing, and online collaboration tool. The new version adds a variety of functional enhancements and is available now. The company's vRoom, a free conferencing tool based on Elluminate Live!, is also being updated to incorporate some of the functionality of Live! V8.
- McGraw-Hill Higher Ed Focuses on Cheaper College Course Materials
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6/13/2007
McGraw-Hill Higher Education and the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) will jointly develop college learning solutions with an eye toward innovation and affordability.
- It Does Compute--All Across Campus
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6/13/2007
Mathematica 6.0, the most comprehensive upgrade to Wolfram Research Inc.'s (www.wolfram.com) famous computational software in the company's 20-year history, has arrived on the University of Mississippi campus.
- Santa Clara U Debuts Future Library in Second Life
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6/12/2007
Santa Clara University is debuting its new library--even though it won't be finished until next fall--in Second Life, the online virtual community.
