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....