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5/15/2012

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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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U Minnesota Bookstores Partner with McGraw-Hill To Reduce Textbook Costs
Students at the University of Minnesota (U of M) will soon have access to their course textbooks through their e-readers and tablets at a reduced cost.
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'Cloning' Most Common and Severe Form of Plagiarism, Survey Finds
Word-for-word copying, or "cloning," is the most common and problematic form of plagiarism, according to a new survey released this month that identifies 10 types of plagiarism and ranks them according to frequency and severity.
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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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West Texas A&M Upgrades Portal To Deliver Mobile Framework
West Texas A&M University has upgraded its open source enterprise portal framework and implemented a next-generation mobile framework in an effort to more efficiently communicate with students.
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Cengage Learning, Blackboard Collaborate on Digital Resource Integration
Cengage Learning and Blackboard have partnered in an effort to give instructors and students more streamlined access to Cengage Learning's digital learning solutions and core curriculum materials through the Blackboard Learn learning management system.
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Researchers Add Sound-Based Gesture Recognition to Commodity Computer
A small team of Microsoft and University of Washington researchers are developing a technology that will allow ordinary computers--and eventually mobile devices--to detect gestures and motions in order to control them. SoundWave, as it's called, uses the speaker and microphone already built into most computers to sense in-air actions, such as a wave of the hand to specify an action like, "scroll the screen up" or "scroll it down."
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SIIA 2012 Ed Tech Survey Deadline Nears
The Software & Information Industry Association is calling on educators to participate in its 2012 Vision K-20 Survey, part of the SIIA's Vision K-20 initiative that focuses on developing a technology-based educational framework for K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.
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Case Western Reserve Tightens Research Administration with Help from Huron
Case Western Reserve University will be implementing a $2 million to $2.8 million pre-award grant system to manage the processes involved in research proposal generation and submission as well as award management.
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