Campus Technology: What Can Competency-Based Assessment and Degree Qualification Mean for the National Degree Completion Agenda?

Strategic Discussions on Technology

7/18/2012

Executive View

Campus Technology Goes Totally Digital
Campus Technology is entering a new era in its 24-year history as a magazine serving the educational technology market. Beginning with its August issue, Campus Technology will become an entirely paper-free, digital publication. The July issue will be its last as a traditional print magazine.
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What Can Competency-Based Assessment and Degree Qualification Mean for the National Degree Completion Agenda?
As institutions are increasingly pressed to graduate more students and to do so more efficiently, says AAC&U Fellow Gary Brown, understanding how quality is defined will be critical--and building consensus around competency is an emerging strategy for ensuring quality.
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Worth Noting

Northern Arizona U to Launch Competency-based Distance Learning Program
New online learning program scheduled to launch January 2013 will allow students to receive credit for prior learning or experience.
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New Mexico State U Moves Course Design to the Cloud
New Mexico State adopts a cloud-based content authoring platform for its course development efforts
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U Hawaii Takes Videoconferencing HD To Support Distance Ed Systemwide
The University of Hawaii has upgraded its videoconferencing setup for high-definition production across all of its campuses.
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U Arizona Athletics Upgrades to High-Def Control Room
U Arizona’s sports production control room gets a much needed makeover, complete with new slow motion instant replay systems.
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Enterasys Showcases BYOD at CT Conference
At the Campus Technology 2012 conference, happening this week in Boston, Enterasys is demonstrating its BYOD solutions designed for education, including the recently launched Mobile IAM.
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VitalSource E-Textbook Platform Coming to Blackboard Learn
Ingram's electronic textbook platform, VitalSource Bookshelf, is making its way to Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Mobile Learn.
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SpiderOak Offers 'Completely Private' Cloud Storage Higher Ed
A cloud storage company has released a version of its product specifically designed for colleges and universities.
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Moodle 2.3 Gets New Course Interface, Improved File Management
Moodle's developers have formally released version 2.3 of the open source learning management system Moodle. The latest release includes about 50 new features for end users, including major enhancements to the course interface and file management.
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Professional Resources

Cisco Bring Your Own Device for Education: Getting More Devices Simply and Securely Connected
Sponsored by: Cisco
Students, teachers, and staff expect to connect to the network with different devices, regardless of who owns the devices. Enable them to teach, learn, and work their way on any device, anytime and anywhere, while affording IT the controls to contain costs, ensure security and capacity, and prevent data loss. Simply, securely, connected.

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