Campus Technology: Blazing the Trail: Competency-Based Education at SNHU

Strategic Discussions on Technology

12/18/2013

Executive View

Blazing the Trail: Competency-Based Education at SNHU
CT asks Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc about the implications of competency-based assessment.
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Campus Technology's 2014 Innovators

Save the date: The 2014 Campus Technology Innovators call for entries begins Jan. 6. Go to campustechnology.com/innovators for details.

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Worth Noting

Survey Identifies Top 3 Challenges to Big Data Adoption
While big data analysis is increasingly seen as an essential capability, 60 percent of surveyed organizations have only limited capability in business intelligence (BI) reporting, according to a new survey from the Association for Information and Image Management.
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Cambridge U Deploys UK's Fastest Academic-Based Supercomputer
The University of Cambridge in England has deployed the fastest academic-based supercomputer in the United Kingdom as part of the new Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Open Architecture Lab, a multinational organization that is building the world's largest radio telescope.
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U Washington Deploys Kuali Open Source Student Information System
The University of Washington has deployed Kuali Student, a student information system built on Kuali open source platform. The SIS, which integrates with UW's existing systems, includes modules for student academic planning as well as course and program development.
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Dartmouth Rolls Out New Learning Management System
Dartmouth College has selected Canvas, from Instructure, for campus-wide deployment, following an 18-month 18-month review and pilot program.
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CMU Computer Understands Images with Minimal Human Assistance
NEIL is watching and learning. NEIL is the Never Ending Image Learner computer program at Carnegie Mellon University. Since late July, NEIL has been running 24 hours a day, searching the Web for images, identifying and labeling objects in the images, and attempting to make associations between those objects with minimal assistance from people.
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MIT, Notre Dame, UT San Antonio Help Build Hybrid Cloud Environment for Education
Researchers at MIT, UT San Antonio and Notre Dame are collaborating with Internet2 and Rackspace Hosting to build a new OpenStack-optimized hybrid cloud environment designed to help the research and education community use the cloud for big data research.
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OpenStax Releases 6th Free Textbook
OpenStax College, a nonprofit organization operating out of Rice University, has released its sixth free textbook in electronic format: Introductory Statistics.
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U Maryland Eastern Shore Consolidates Virtual Machine Backups
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has replaced three separate backup solutions with a single, consolidated solution for its virtual machine backups and offsite archive.
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2 Institutions Adopt New Constituent Relationship Management Platform
Two institutions have gone public with their adoption of new systems for fundraising database management.
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