Executive View
WCET Executive Director Ellen D. Wagner will give a keynote at Campus Technology 2011, just prior to the CT 2011 Innovator Awards recognition ceremony. In a brief interview, CT asked Wagner for her views on IT innovation and innovators in higher education. More
Worth Noting
All 1,100 students at Iowa's Buena Vista University will receive an Apple iPad 2 along with a laptop computer. The university said students wouldn't face any additional charges or pay fees as a result of receiving the iPad. MoreAn instructional design team from Columbia University's School of Continuing Education will be using the Pearson LearningStudio engine as the basis for developing a new, more social platform for delivering online programs. MorePurdue University Libraries has adopted an application to track and help it analyze how its resources are being used--including those that are digital. MoreOne of Stanford University's researchers involved in the Folding@home research project will be getting some new computing power. MoreWilliam Paterson University is implementing a new customer relationship management system to help make its communications with prospective students more timely and relevant. MoreFlat World Knowledge, which offers a unique, open license model for digital textbook publishing, will be receiving an infusion of capital from major trade book publisher Random House. More
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