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10/6/2010

Spotlight

Why We Switched to Sakai
Pepperdine University will formally switch to Sakai as its university-wide LMS beginning Jan. 1. In this guest viewpoint, Timothy Chester, Pepperdine's CIO and vice provost for academic administration, reveals five reasons for the shift to the open source LMS and offers tips for other IT leaders in higher education contemplating similar moves.
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News & Product Updates

Purdue Students Hook into Facebook for Study Groups
A team at Purdue University has developed a new application that lets its students create online study groups and participate in them within Facebook.
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LIU Brooklyn Campus Extends iPad Program
Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University is expanding a program it implemented earlier this semester to provide its students with Apple iPads.
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AbleNet Brings Communication Board to iOS
AbleNet has launched SoundingBoard, an app for iOS devices that allows teachers to build communication boards for students with verbal communication disabilities.
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Datatel To Release Mobile App for Android and Blackberry
Datatel will be releasing an updated version of its mobile campus app in October. Release 1.1 of Mobile Access (MOX) will add support for Google Android smartphones and Blackberry devices.
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LightSpeed Rolls Out Classroom Wireless Audio System with AV Switch
LightSpeed Technologies, a company that specializes in educational audio equipment, has launched a classroom AV system that offers sound amplification, wireless microphone capabilities, and an AV switch that sends both audio and video signals over Cat-5 cables.
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McGraw-Hill Education Buys Lecture Capture Company Tegrity
McGraw-Hill Education has just acquired Tegrity, a privately held company that provides a product for lecture capture. Tegrity's Campus technology has been a part of Connect, the larger company's Web-based online learning assignment and assessment platform for colleges and universities, which was launched in fall 2009.
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New York U Grants Single Sign-on Portal Access with Ping App
A school at New York University has adopted a pair of Web-based applications to help business students collaborate on projects and access applications.
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Black Box Debuts USB KVM Switch
Black Box, a company that offers KVM switches, AV cabinets and racks, digital signage devices, and network services, has rolled out a new USB-based KVM switch that allows control of up to four computer systems.
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