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8/5/2009

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  • Miami Dade Gets STEM Grant To Encourage Minority Students

    Miami Dade College North Campus has garnered a grant from the United States Department of Education in support of its STEM efforts. The college will receive $865,519 for each of three years from the federal agency's new Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program to support its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Connections Program.More
  • De Anza College Equips Classrooms with Lecture Capture

    De Anza College, a two-year school in Cupertino, CA, has found success with a TrackView system from Vaddio for recording lectures with video, audio, and graphics.More
  • U Central Missouri Moves to On-Demand eProcurement

    The University of Central Missouri (UCM) in Warrensburg will implement HigherMarkets Express, SciQuest's on-demand eprocurement application to procurement and bring spending under management.More
  • Vanderbilt Makes iTunes U App Available on Blackboard Extensions Platform

    Vanderbilt University Library in Nashville, TN will make its integration for Apple's iTunes U application available to the Blackboard client community, providing a popular tool to other institutions looking to support the use of multimedia content in courses.More
  • 7 Textbook Publishers Move to Electronic Format

    Several textbook publishers have recently joined the ranks of publishers offering their works in electronic format. Last week, seven, including Elsevier Science and Technology, SAGE, and Taylor & Francis signed on to offer their higher education textbooks through CourseSmart's eTextbooks service.More