Campus Technology: The Student Portfolio is the New Book: New Practices, Profession, and Scholarship

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2/2/2011

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The Student Portfolio is the New Book: New Practices, Profession, and Scholarship
As the electronic portfolio becomes a more critical element in teaching and learning at higher education institutions as well as a key tool in an era of digital knowledge generation, a new field of scholarship is emerging around the study of ePortfolio practice--complete with its first scholarly journal, IJeP.
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Boston College Extends New Library Collection Usage Tool to iPhone App
Boston College will be using the reporting technology in Logi Insight for Libraries as part of a new mobile iPhone app to help students find and use library resources.
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Cerritos College Experiments with Custom Textbooks
A community college in Southern California will begin introducing custom textbooks into its courses in a partnership with media company Pearson.
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Law School Extends iPad Program to Faculty
California's Monterey College of Law has expanded in iPad program that it began piloting last summer, rolling out the devices to every faculty member who teaches a core subject.
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Google Marketplace Adds Education Category
Google has introduced a new education-focused area in its Google Apps Marketplace, which provides Web applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.
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Open Source Drupal 7 CMS Gains Interoperability with Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft this week showcased some of its interoperability accomplishments reflected with the release of the open source Drupal 7 content management system.
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LibreOffice 3.3 Breaks from Oracle with New Release
The Document Foundation this week released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first "stable release" of the free, open source office suite, whose developers last year split from the OpenOffice.org effort, now managed by Oracle.
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Facility Scheduling Software Adds Social Network Tweaks
A facility scheduling application in use widely by colleges and universities has been updated.
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