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Three of the more populous campuses in the massive California State University system are shifting their mail and document collaboration to a cloud-based solution for students, faculty, and alumni. MoreBrooklyn Campus of Long Island University is expanding a program it implemented earlier this semester to provide its students with Apple iPads. MoreA team at Purdue University has developed a new application that lets its students create online study groups and participate in them within Facebook. MoreA school at New York University has adopted a pair of Web-based applications to help business students collaborate on projects and access applications. MoreAcademic institutions in the United States are spending more than $5 billion annually on wireless hardware, software, and services. And, according to new research, that figure will climb to $6.8 billion by 2014. MoreMcGraw-Hill Education has just acquired Tegrity, a privately held company that provides a product for lecture capture. Tegrity's Campus technology has been a part of Connect, the larger company's Web-based online learning assignment and assessment platform for colleges and universities, which was launched in fall 2009. More
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