Campus Technology: A Survey of the Electronic Portfolio Market Sector: Analysis and Surprising Trends

Strategic Discussions on Technology

10/12/2011

Executive View

A Survey of the Electronic Portfolio Market Sector: Analysis and Surprising Trends
Trent Batson's recent survey of ePortfolio technology providers shows that there's a move in the ePortfolio marketplace now, from its earlier concentration on institutional assessment portfolios to the inclusion of a wider range of products that support student-centered as well as institution-centered portfolios--opening up the potential for new learning designs.
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Worth Noting

U Cincinnati Expands Online Programs with Blackboard
The University of Cincinnati has deployed content management system Blackboard 9.0 for its new lineup of online certificate programs.
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U New Orleans Turns to CRM for Student Recruitment
The University of New Orleans in Louisiana has reported it will deploy customer relationship management software for in its recruiting efforts.
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$1.25M Grant To Help Martin U Launch Online Courses
Martin University in Indianapolis, IN, will use a $1.25 million grant from the United States Department of Education to launch online certificate programs.
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SciQuest Joins InCommon Canadian Access Federations
SciQuest, an online procurement provider focused on academic, healthcare, and research organizations, has joined the InCommon Federation and the Canadian Access Federation (CAF) in an effort to improve standards and interoperability for customers in the United States and Canada.
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Virginia Community College Adopts SARA for Emergency Notifications
Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) in Roanoke, VA, has deployed Situational Awareness and Response Assistance (SARA) software to send out automatic mass notifications after experiencing three false alarms.
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Western Governors U Taps CourseSmart for E-Textbook Delivery
Western Governors University has gone public with its use of a service that delivers textbooks in digital form to its students through its online learning environment.
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Oracle To Launch Enterprise Social Network
Oracle is launching an enterprise collaboration and social networking tool, Oracle Social Network, which will be offered as part of the new Oracle Public Cloud services.
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Oracle Introduces Oracle Public Cloud
Oracle has announced Oracle Public Cloud, a set of integrated services that provide access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Database, all of which are managed, hosted, and supported by Oracle, with a unified self-service interface for provisioning, monitoring, and managing all services.
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Desire2Learn To Improve Integration with Cengage Resources
Users of the Desire2Learn Learning Suite will have direct access to digital materials from Cengage Learning thanks to a partnership between the two companies announced last week.
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CampusIT Announces U.S. Launch of Cloud-Based Educational Management Service
Educators and students in the United States will now have access to a cloud-based education interaction management product previously available exclusively in Europe. CampusIT, the service provider, announced earlier this week that it is bringing its online student interaction and transaction management system--one of Europe’s largest, according to the company--to U.S. colleges and universities.
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