Campus Technology: Using Technology to 'Turbo' Through Accreditation

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8/7/2013

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Using Technology to 'Turbo' Through Accreditation
How can you minimize the time faculty are pulled away from teaching during an accreditation review period? Learn how Johnston Community College leveraged their existing classroom management technology to streamline the process.
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Research: Students Increasingly Comfortable with E-Texts
Almost all, 99 percent, of current students have at least one digital device and 68 percent use at least three devices each day, according to a new survey from Wakefield Research.
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Kentucky Selects e-Transcript System To Reduce Costs, Streamline College Admissions
The Commonwealth of Kentucky will adopt an electronic transcript sharing system designed to reduce costs and make it easier for high school students to complete the college admissions process online.
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Non-Profit Launches MOOC on Digital Badges
The WICHE Cooperative for Education Technologies has partnered with Blackboard, Mozilla, and Sage Road Solutions to host a massive open online course examining the use of badges in professional credentialing.
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A Quarter of Higher Ed Transmits Unencrypted Student Data
Should colleges and universities be insisting on the use of encryption for the transmission of sensitive information among its student applicants? That's what one security firm is recommending after doing an informal audit of 162 American institutions, including schools that are part of the Big 10, the Big 8, the Ivy League, community colleges, and technical institutes.
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ISTE and HP Expand Free Teacher Training in Catalyst Academy Mini-Courses
Intercultural understanding through digital exchanges, a crash course on games for learning, and using mobile apps to convert students into "citizen scientists" are three of the topics that will make up the latest round of "mini courses" offered through HP's free Catalyst Academy.
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Read&Write for Google Provides Reading, Writing Support Tools for Google Apps for Education
Texthelp, which provides literacy software for struggling readers and writers, English language learners, and students with learning disabilities, has released a suite of support tools for Google Docs, PDFs, and ePubs.
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