Campus Technology: Egypt: The Terror of Free Information, The Promise for Higher Education

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2/16/2011

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Egypt: The Terror of Free Information, The Promise for Higher Education
Information technology has two faces: control and freedom. Egypt showed us the power of free exchange of communication (the IT face of freedom). How can higher education, dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, not fully embrace this most extraordinary medium?
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Moberly Area CC Contracts with Pearson for Digital Resources
A Missouri community college system with seven campuses will be offering its 5,000 students the chance to purchase textbooks in digital form, get course help online, and use online reference resources.
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Texas University Launches iPhone and Android Apps
The University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg has launched campus iPhone and Android smart phone apps after doing a survey among students that concluded that half of them own a smart phone.
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IPv6 Adoption Now of 'Paramount Importance' as IPv4 Addresses Run Out
The "IPocalypse" is turning out to be a mild global event, as -pocalypses go. End users won't begin to see the effects for months, and there should be little disruption when it does hit. But the end of IPv4 means that the transition to IPv6 needs to start now, according to ICANN.
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Blackboard Launches Free Web-Based Course Platform
Blackboard has launched a free hosted course management service. The system, CourseSites is an online platform that enables faculty members to set up Web-based class sites where they can post course materials, communicate with students, encourage collaboration, monitor performance, and manage grades.
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Camtasia Relay Adds Drupal Interoperability
Camtasia Relay is gaining integration with the open source content management system Drupal. TechSmith this week released a plugin for Drupal that connects it with Camtasia Relay, the company's commercial lecture and screen capture system.
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Free Meeting App Goes Mobile
Software developer LogMeIn has launched a mobile version of its free meeting and screen sharing system, join.me, for Apple iOS-powered devices, including iPhone and iPad.
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IBM Hooks in Cloud-Based Collaboration with Free Symphony Suite
At its Lotusphere 2011 event this week, IBM debuted a new cloud-based productivity suite called "LotusLive Symphony." The company also revealed some planned improvements to its lineup of social networking tools.
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i>clicker Software To Add Demographic Polling and Data Slicing
An upcoming version of the software behind a popular classroom response system will be able to uncover demographic information along with polling results.
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