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    CARES Act 2: Larger, but Still Insufficient

    Even as the Biden administration has begun pushing for the next recovery package, educators are still sorting out the details of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, otherwise known as "CARES Act 2." 01/15/2021

  • Olivet Nazarene U Offers Tuition-Free Online General Ed Courses for Adult Learners

    A new program out of Olivet Nazarene University's School of Graduate and Continuing Studies is using an online, asynchronous flipped model to provide adult students a pathway to earn a bachelor's degree. 01/14/2021

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    Speaking the Language of Data Visualization

    Understanding data visualization technologies is critical to recognizing and responding to enrollment trends and patterns — particularly for community colleges facing precipitous decline. 01/14/2021

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  • San Francisco State U Taps Cloud Tech for Financial Planning

    San Francisco State University has moved its financial reporting, analytics, budgeting and forecasting to Oracle's Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management solution. 01/13/2021

  • U Arizona Sticks with All Campus for Online Graduate Engineering Programs

    The University of Arizona College of Engineering has signed a renewal agreement with online program management provider All Campus, extending the partnership that has been in place since 2015 to support the institution's engineering master's degree programs. 01/12/2021

  • National University Blockchain Initiative Pilots Digital Transcripts

    National University in California has partnered with GreenLight Credentials to create blockchain-secured digital student transcripts that can be shared with other educational institutions or prospective employers. 01/11/2021

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    The Annual Report: Ringing in the Changes

    CT spoke with Doug Foster, vice president for information technology and CIO at the University of South Carolina's Division of Information Technology, to find out how an annual report can help the institution's resolve by putting goals and accomplishments in context. 01/11/2021

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    Free COVID Dashboard Resources Offer Templates for College and County Data

    A project dedicated to sharing best practices in COVID-19 data visualization is offering free resources to help colleges and universities create their own dashboards for disseminating public health information to students, parents, faculty and staff. 01/11/2021

  • Library of Congress Digitizes Presidential Collections

    The world's largest library, the Library of Congress, has digitized the collections of papers from 23 early presidents, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. The work has taken nearly two decades of effort, and the results — 3.3 million images — are openly available online. 01/08/2021

  • Occupancy Count Tool Reaches into Ed Settings

    To measure how many people are visiting a space in real time, BlueZoo's BlueFox Count uses sensors to continuously count probes from mobile phones. 01/08/2021

  • Community College Librarians Keep Digital Platform Running in California

    A recent effort by the Community College League of California has resulted in a three-year agreement to cover the renewal costs of a shared library services platform. 01/07/2021

  • MOOC Enrollment Explodes in 2020

    According to a new report by Class Central, a company that tracks massive open online courses, of all learners who have registered for MOOCs throughout their history, a third did so last year. 01/05/2021

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    Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2021

    If you’re looking for software and services to augment online and blended instruction this year, start here. 01/05/2021

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    25 Ed Tech Predictions for 2021

    Education technology may have come into its own during the pandemic. But will it remain front and center forever? Here, education and industry leaders alike offer their views on higher ed's future. 01/04/2021

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    Higher Ed Loses 560,200 Students in Fall 2020 over Fall 2019

    College enrollments have fallen by 2.5 percent overall for fall 2020, almost twice the size of the fall 2019 decline. The latest and final reporting by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center for the semester stated that higher education lost about 560,200 students over the previous year. 12/18/2020

  • Report: Transition to Remote Work Has Long-Term Impact

    In a recent survey, 70 percent of global IT leaders reported that more than half of their companies' employees are working remotely due to the pandemic. That's roughly triple the share of staffers working remotely before the COVID-19 shutdown, according to a report from Infoblox and Zogby Analytics. 12/18/2020

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    Podcast: Students Supporting Faculty in the Shift to Hybrid Learning

    When Boston University launched its hybrid learning initiative this fall, it also created a Classroom Moderator program: an army of student workers deployed in the classroom to help ensure that hybrid learning could run smoothly. In this episode of the Campus Technology Insider podcast, Ernie Perez, director of educational technology for BU Digital Learning and Innovation, and Jill Beckman, executive director of Client Services, talk about how they rolled out the classroom moderator service and made it a success. 12/17/2020

  • Students Supporting Faculty in the Shift to Hybrid Learning

    When Boston University launched its hybrid learning initiative this fall, it also created a Classroom Moderator program: essentially an army of student workers deployed in the classroom to help ensure that hybrid learning could run smoothly. In this episode of the Campus Technology Insider podcast, Executive Editor Rhea Kelly talks with Ernie Perez, director of educational technology for BU Digital Learning and Innovation, and Jill Beckman, Executive Director of Client Services, about how they rolled out the classroom moderator service and made it a success. 12/17/2020