C-Level View :: August 8, 2007 -- Campus Technology

Online Training for Online Faculty: A checklist of the best strategies for designing and delivering online courses to train online faculty.; By Ron Thomas, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Train faculty on the same platform their students will use. Not only does this increase the faculty's familiarity with the system; it gives them an immersion from the student perspective....

Open Source Excellence at UC Santa Cruz: Sun Microsystems has named the University of California, Santa Cruz as its first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence, establishing a collaborative partnership between the company and university faculty who work with the OpenSPARC community on the processor code first released as open source by Sun in 2006....
Cognos, Exeter Help NACUBO Universities Compare Tuition Strategies: Business intelligence and performance management firm Cognos and higher ed IT consultants Exeter Group have helped the Washington, DC-based National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) add an application to its website that will help higher education administrators compare tuition discount strategies....
Adobe Names Design Competition Winners: This past week Adobe announced the results of its annual Design Achievement Awards, a competition honoring the best student work in design, video, film, illustration, and animation. More than 2,500 students from 30 countries competed in this year’s program....

CLIR Appoints Michael Keller Senior Presidential Fellow: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the appointment of Stanford University librarian Michael Keller as CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow....

NIST Proposes New Cybersecurity Guidelines for AI Systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled plans to issue a new set of cybersecurity guidelines aimed at safeguarding artificial intelligence systems, citing rising concerns over risks tied to generative models, predictive analytics, and autonomous agents.
Student and Teacher AI Use Jumps Nearly 30% in One Year

In a recent survey from learning platform Quizlet, 85% of high school and college students and teachers said they use AI technology, compared to 66% in 2024 — a 29% increase year over year.
Linux Foundation to Host Protocol for AI Agent Interoperability

The Linux Foundation has announced it will host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol project, an open standard originally developed by Google to support secure communication and interoperability among AI agents.
A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Value Evaluation Systems

Choosing the most cost-effective evaluation system requires balancing price, usability and insight quality. In a landscape full of digital tools and data demands, it is important to prioritize platforms that deliver clear results without complicating operations.