• Campuswire Invites Instructors to Make Best Courses Available to World — and Collect a Fee

    Education technology company Campuswire has introduced a platform that allows professors from around the world to deliver their live online classes to anybody on the internet. 11/18/2020

  • Panopto Adds Webex Meeting Integration

    Panopto Adds Webex Integration

    Panopto and Webex users will now be able to transfer their video recordings to their media library. Panopto produces video management applications; Webex is a videoconferencing program. 11/18/2020

  • Survey: As a Necessity, Video is Losing Its Luster

    Survey: Video Is Essential, But May Be Losing Its Luster

    In an annual survey done by Kaltura, fewer faculty and staff respondents agreed that video increased student achievement (down 11 percent from last year's survey), increased the sense of affiliation alumni felt for their institutions (down 9 percent), increased student satisfaction with learning (down 7 percent) or increased educator collaboration and professional develop (down 5 percent). 11/18/2020

  • 8 Texas CCs Get Funding to Broaden Pathways Programs

    Eight community colleges in east Texas are receiving funding to scale their pathways programs. The recognition came from the Texas Success Center, which operates out of the Texas Association of Community Colleges, to support the 50 community college districts in the state. 11/17/2020

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    Podcast: How Oregon State Uses Tech and Ingenuity to Engage Physics Students Remotely

    Last fall, Oregon State University launched an Ecampus online program for its introductory physics courses, with an emphasis on collaborative, hands-on work. In this episode of the Campus Technology Insider podcast, Senior Physics Instructor KC Walsh and Associate Department Head David Craig talk about how they’ve used technology, open educational resources, take-home lab kits and more to engage students from a distance. 11/17/2020

  • How Oregon State Uses Tech and Ingenuity to Engage Physics Students Remotely

    Last fall, Oregon State University launched an Ecampus online program for its introductory physics courses, with an emphasis on collaborative, hands-on work. In this episode of the Campus Technology Insider podcast, Executive Editor Rhea Kelly talks with Senior Physics Instructor KC Walsh and Associate Department Head David Craig, about how they've used technology, open educational resources, take-home lab kits and more to engage students from a distance. 11/17/2020

  • Survey: Interactive, In-Class Engagement Makes a Difference to Students

    Even though first-year college students are more likely than students in later years to say they intended to return to school in the spring (73 percent versus 68 percent), they're less confident they'll see the value of the investment in higher education (45 percent compared to 51 percent), according to a recent survey done by education technology company Top Hat. 11/16/2020

  • 5 Higher Ed Research Datasets Added to Ithaka S+R Collection

    Consultancy Ithaka S+R has made five datasets newly available for download from its higher education research. The work is stored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. 11/13/2020

  • Voice Tech Poised to Become 'Vital Tool'

    As touch becomes a dirty word, voice technology is positioned to provide a safer alternative. In a survey by Adobe of a 1,000 voice technology users in the United States, nearly a third said sanitation (such as not needing to touch high-traffic surfaces) was a big benefit of voice technology. 11/13/2020

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    Drop in Undergrad Enrollment Increases to 4.4%

    At 4.4 percent, the decline in undergraduate college enrollment is a bit steeper than reported last month, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. But, according to one researcher, it still isn't as high as early predictions would have set it based on data coming early in the pandemic. 11/13/2020

  • Unizin Partners with Blackboard to Offer Ally Across Member Institutions

    Unizin's 14 member institutions can now tap into Blackboard's Ally accessibility solution. The higher education consortium recently announced a partnership with Blackboard to help "create a more inclusive and data-informed learning environment" for its members, according to a news announcement. 11/12/2020

  • Level Next esports

    New College Esports League Launches; Contest Opens with Madden NFL

    Learfield IMG College and game producer Electronic Arts have announced a new college esports league. "Level Next," as the new league is called, will serve as the home of EA's college esports contests. 11/10/2020

  • Michigan State Libraries Moving to Open Source FOLIO Project

    Michigan State University Libraries has committed to adopting FOLIO, an open source project that is building a platform for library services. 11/10/2020

  • Ed Sector Has Seen Greatest Increase in Remote Access

    A recent analysis by Duo Security, a Cisco division that produces multi-factor authentication technology, has found that education saw the largest increase in average daily authentications from remote technology, up 78 percent over the period between March 2020 and June 2020 compared to the period between June 2019 and February 2020. 11/10/2020

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    How the Pandemic Accelerated Digital Transformation at Jones College

    Jones College's move to a paperless workflow happened to coincide with COVID-19 lockdowns. Here's how going digital enabled the institution to navigate through the pandemic, a summer enrollment increase and beyond. 11/10/2020

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  • Updated Guide Tackles Equity and Racial Justice in Use of Adaptive Courseware

    A group of organizations focused on student success in college have released a new version of a guide to help instructors and course designers implement adaptive curriculum to better support minority students. Intended for use in gateway courses, the "Adaptive Courseware Implementation Guide" was developed by Every Learner Everywhere. 11/10/2020

  • Active Engagement Improves Online Instruction During COVID-19

    Getting students actively engaged in their remote learning has a difference on the outcomes during a pandemic, according to a report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. 11/10/2020

  • FLEXspace

    FLEXspace.org: A Hub for Sharing and a Platform for Research

    During the past few months, higher education institutions have had an urgent need to respond to the challenges of a pandemic and reconfigure learning spaces quickly with very little room for trial and error. FLEXspace.org has proven to be both a hub for sharing what works and a platform for longer-term research on important questions that impact the future. 11/09/2020

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