C-Level View :: July 11, 2007 -- Campus Technology

Are Collaboration and Learning Environments (CLEs) Tools or Countries?: By Luke Fernandez, Weber State University; A university faces a variety of challenges when it begins the task of choosing a new technology for managing online classes and promoting online academic collaboration. Often overlooked are the linguistic challenges it encounters. There are, for example, questions about the acronyms one uses to describe the technology. Should it be called a CLE (the term I will use), an LMS, or a CMS? The question of what acronym to use is an important one to answer. But I’m concerned with a different linguistic issue: What metaphors best describe a CLE?...

Kuali Financial System Is Live at Strathmore University: Strathmore University in Nairobi has turned on its implementation of the Kuali Financial System, making the Kenyan university the first institution to go live with the much-anticipated open source financials....
Notre Dame Sharpens Online Alumni Offerings: The University of Notre Dame is revamping its alumni relations with social networking and online engagement capabilities, which it will provide to roughly 120,000 graduates in more than 300 alumni clubs, classes and affinity groups....
Minnesota Opts for E-Transcripts: Minnesota has aligned itself with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact's (Minneapolis, MN) electronic transcript initiative, which seeks to facilitate the electronic transfer of high school transcripts to colleges....

A New Executive Director for Sakai: Michael Korcuska will become the Sakai Foundation’s new executive director later this month, leading the Sakai community in the continued development of its open source collaboration and learning environment....