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11/18/2009

Spotlight

Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the Classroom
In most classrooms around the world, using cell phones to send text messages and laptops to access sites like Facebook and Twitter are very much discouraged. Not so at Purdue University, where some professors have come to embrace social networking as an instructional aid.More

News & Product Updates

Thomas Edison State College Gets Grant to Expand Variety of Distance Learning Modes
Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, NJ, which specializes in distance learning, has received funding from the feds to help it expand how college courses are delivered.More
Manufacturers Debut Pico Projection Products Using Texas Instruments DLP Pico Chipset
A number of recent new product introductions offer more evidence that Pico projectors are being embraced by manufacturers.More
CBT/Smartdesks Intros Mobile, Self-Contained HD Videoconferencing System
CBT/Smartdesks has launched Viewpoint, a mobile, high-definition videoconferencing system that contains everything needed to connect to a conference but that can be rolled from location to location.More
AVI-SPL Intros New 'Control Room in a Box'
System integration company AVI-SPL has launched a new Network Operations Center (NOC) solution called Control Room in a Box.More
Laurier Business School Testing Desire2Learn 2GO
The Laurier School of Business & Economics in Waterloo, Ontario will be using Desire2Learn's mobile application, 2GO. Beginning this fall a hundred incoming students enrolled in the full-time MBA program on the Waterloo campus began using Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry 8900 smart phones as part of their program.More
New Clicker Adds Screen for Response Verification
Turning Technologies has debuted its new ResponseCard RF LCD, an classroom clicker device that contains a small LCD screen for participants to confirm their responses.More
Online Video Program Lets Public Speaking Students and Teachers Upload, Evaluate Lessons
Wadsworth Cengage Learning has introduced Speech Studio, an online video upload and grading program for higher education students enrolled in public speaking courses.More
SoftChalk Authoring Software To Work with Equella and Merlot
SoftChalk is partnering with two companies, The Learning Edge International and Merlot, in integration projects for its e-learning content authoring software.More

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