Executive View
Campus Technology 2012 keynote George Siemens says, "The changing way we create and share knowledge is at the core of what's driving education. It's not the fact that we have mobiles and the Web that requires education to change, but rather that we are using these technologies to begin circumventing existing knowledge processes. And what we do with knowledge determines the types of institutions we need." Here, Campus Technology asked Siemens for his perspectives on the groundswell of change apparent in higher education. More
Worth Noting
IBM and Syracuse University are partnering to provide students with hands-on opportunities to learn about deployments of large-scale global enterprise information systems. MoreNorco College in Norco, CA has deployed a hosted online learning platform in an effort to help launch students into careers and assess student performance and retention. MoreA northeastern Pennsylvania university is adding live broadcast televisions to its emergency campus alert system. MoreWashington University School of Law in St. Louis, MO, will make its Master of Laws in U.S. Law for Foreign Lawyers (LLM) available online through a new program called @WashULaw. MoreThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will be home to the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data. CSAIL will also launch a new initiative called bigdata@CSAIL to study "data collections that are too big, growing too fast, or are too complex for existing information technology systems to handle," according to information released by the school. MoreThe New Media Consortium (NMC) is launching a new site with a social sharing and collaboration platform, a move intended to improve member services, encourage collaboration, and support the production of the NMC Horizon Report series. MoreWestern Governors University, an experiment in online higher education, is now trying an experiment with a textbook company. MoreMcGraw-Hill Higher Education and Instructure have partnered to expand support for McGraw-Hill Campus, a service specializing in providing digital resources and course integration, within Instructure's Canvas, an open source LMS. More
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