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Learning in higher education--formal, informal, and social--is constantly disrupted and almost always scattered during the years of undergraduate education. Learning experiences during those years are discontinuous and vertically organized because of an over-arching business model that undermines the continuity of learning by making knowledge into separate chunks instead of recognizing it as flow. But, there is an alternative… More
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After a selection process that began in 2008, the University of Colorado at Boulder has decided to migrate off of its Blackboard Campus Edition 8 learning management system and onto Desire2Learn. MoreUniversity at Albany, part of the State University of New York, is adding Microsoft's Live@edu services to its IT portfolio. MoreAn Ontario university will be migrating its internally hosted e-mail system to a public cloud. The University of Guelph will be moving Gryph Mail, its Zimbra-based collaboration software, to a cloud-based service. MoreA small, four-year college in Georgia will be moving off of a home-grown learning management system and onto an LMS from Edvance360. Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs made the move in an effort to address a growing demand for online courses for its 800 students. MoreBlackboard has released a version of its Mobile Central app for webOS, the mobile operating system that powers HP's smart phones and tablets. MoreCisco has debuted an array of new and enhanced video collaboration and communication tools to help organizations capture and share lectures, training sessions, meetings, and other events online. More
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