Campus Technology: Real Life Teaching in a Virtual World

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2/18/2009

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Real-Life Teaching in a Virtual World
Few technologies have been subject to more hype and subsequent disappointment than Second Life. Corporations from shoe manufactures to cruise lines to news services set up shop with hopes this new frontier would bring soaring profits. Most evacuated shortly thereafter when the effort resulted in spaces devoid of audiences and buyers. A notable exception, though, is education.More

News & Product Updates

Johns Hopkins Puts Expertise Online Publicly with Collexis
Johns Hopkins University has put its Collexis Holdings Expertise Portal online as a public Web site where individuals can search, sort, and view compiled views of the research conducted by the university and its faculty. Collexis Holdings develops semantic search and knowledge discovery software.More
ConnectYard Launches Hosted Social Learning Service on Facebook
ConnectYard has launched new social learning services, ConnectYard Student and Enterprise Editions, which provide virtual learning communities and are powered by Facebook Connect.More
Exchange Labs To Become Outlook Live; New Mail Features in Store for Live@edu
Microsoft's Exchange Labs is changing its name to Outlook Live and adding new e-mail features. Exchange Labs/Outlook Live is a component of Live@edu and functions as an R&D environment for Microsoft's new e-mail developments. The service is free for academic users.More
UTexas Health Sciences Center Deploys Multi-Site Lecture Capture System
The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston (UTHSC) has deployed a multi-site Webcasting platform that enables students, faculty, and staff in its medical, dental, and nursing schools to search and replay lecture content. More
NEC Launches Short-Throw Projectors
NEC Display Solutions of America this week launched two new short-throw projectors, the NP500WS and NP600S. Both are designed for mounting and projecting on the same wall with automatic keystone correction to produce square images.More
Angel Learning To Throttle Up Digital Media, Content Management in Updated LMS
Angel Learning this week previewed a forthcoming update to its learning management system, Angel LMS 7.4. The update, currently in an open field trial, incorporates new mashup capabilities, grading enhancements, and templates, as well as new administration, development, and content management features.More
Utrecht U Launches Lecture Capture Initiative using Sonic Foundry Platform
Utrecht University in The Netherlands has chosen Mediasite from Sonic Foundry to do lecture capture as a key component of its long-range online learning plan. The university rolled out its centralized course capture plan under the name LectureNet this semester.More

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