Campus Technology: Islands in the Stream: Academic Technology, Digital Copyright, and The TEACH Act

Strategic Discussions on Technology

12/14/2011

Executive View

Islands in the Stream: Academic Technology, Digital Copyright, and The TEACH Act
Virtually everyone who works at an academic institution has experienced the complexity, uncertainty, and sometimes turmoil that has resulted from the collision of the new and evolving digital media world with a system of copyright that was originally created for more traditional media. Ray Uzwyshyn, director of online libraries for the American Public University System--with 104,000 all-online students--sees these challenges often and suggests that it’s time to rethink digital copyright assumptions.
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Worth Noting

Ball State Launches New Android App for Students
Ball State University has launched bConnected, a new student-focused mobile application for Android and Google TV
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SUNY Empire State College Adopts Social Network To Increase Student Engagement
The State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College is expanding its student engagement offerings in order to help faculty and staff connect and collaborate more effectively.
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UC Irvine Wins OPAL Award for OpenCoursWare Program
The University of California, Irvine's OpenCourseWare program has won the 2011 Award for Institutions in this year's OPAL Awards.
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Federal Commission Recommends Sending Faculty to Accessibility School
The federal AIM Commission this week posted recommendations for improving accessibility in higher education, among them the recommendation for mandatory, system-wide faculty orientation programs concerning accessibility "in all aspects of the education enterprise, including readings, courseware and instructional technology, assessments and instructor-made materials."
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Community Source Initiative Brings Customer Enhancements to Banner
SunGard Higher Education (HE), maker of the Banner suite of enterprise resource planning software for higher education, is combining the benefits of open source with the security of a vendor-backed solution.
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Desire2Learn Update Boosts Streaming Media Support, Integrates Google Apps
Desire2Learn has unveiled a new release to its learning management platform, offering enhancements to streaming media delivery and new integration features supporting Google Apps for Education.
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Cisco Intros CloudVerse for Integrated Cloud Management
Cisco has introduced CloudVerse, a new framework for building, managing, and connecting public, private, and hybrid clouds.
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