Campus Technology: An Instructional Design Toolkit and Strategies for the Community College

IT Solutions for Two-Year Schools

6/6/2012

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An Instructional Design Toolkit and Strategies for the Community College
Today, instructional designers at community colleges have exciting opportunities to improve instruction and service to students, as their toolkit has grown to include an amazing array of Web 2.0 tools and new media. CT asked Michael Medlock, the director of Instructional Design and Technology at Rio Salado College how instructional designers and a team of faculty, subject matter experts, and media developers follow instructional design principles and strategies that leverage technology and new media to create robust learning designs that advance instruction at Rio Salado College.
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News

34 Washington Colleges Migrate to Cloud-Based LMS
The 34 institutions that make up the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges are dropping their legacy LMS and moving to a cloud-based system.
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California Inches Closer to Open Content in Higher Education
California is moving closer to the realm of open education resources (OER) with passage of two bills in its state senate that would fund development of digital textbooks and courseware for free or low-cost use in higher education.
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Los Angeles Community College District Moves to Live@edu
Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is providing all of its students, faculty, and staff with accounts for cloud communication and collaboration tools using Microsoft's Live@edu.
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Virginia Community Colleges Implement Incident Reporting Platform
Twenty-three community colleges in Virginia have deployed a Web-based software platform to provide a single location for threat assessment, incident reporting, and prevention services.
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CourseSmart Launches Platform for Digital Texts in UK and Europe
CourseSmart released its first e-commerce platform in the United Kingdom and Europe, which will allow students and teachers to access e-textbooks and other digital learning materials on any connected device.
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Google Summer of Code Students To Contribute to Joomla Development
Students from around the world will be working on open source coding projects that may be used by content management (CMS) software Joomla, as part of the Google Summer of Code.
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Prince George's CC and Alabama A&M Upgrade Wireless with Aruba
Two institutions of higher education--one in Maryland and the other in Alabama--have chosen to deploy Aruba Networks wireless equipment to keep pace with student demand.
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