Executive View
At Chattanooga State Community College, campus leaders charged with a new e-portfolio program implementation demonstrated an exceptional gift: the ability to identify pockets of interest on campus and turn them into a driving force. After a modest, one-year pilot of 200 users, campus leaders watched a full, campus wide implementation grow to 2,300 student, faculty, and staff e-portfolios in its first year. More
Worth Noting
Georgetown University has gone public with its recent adoption of an online application system to replace its manual paper-based process. MoreThree multi-institutional projects are advancing their efforts to develop the architectures that may underlie the Internet of the future. MoreThe University of Iowa will launch a new Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology for the fall 2015 semester in an effort to better meet the needs of faculty, instructors and teaching assistants. MoreA university in Canada is bringing research integrity to the forefront by adopting two applications to help people figure out whether they've borrowed too liberally for their writing, misused data in their research or handled potential conflicts of interest. MoreBard College's digital humanities initiative — called Experimental Humanities — is getting a boost from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. MoreeScience Labs has introduced the second edition of its introductory biology lab kit, an online platform featuring 28 labs designed for non-majors in first and second semester online or hybrid courses. MoreSeven universities in the United States have partnered with IBM to launch cognitive computing courses featuring cloud access to the company's Watson computer. MoreCengage Learning, a provider of educational content, technology and services for higher education and K-12, has partnered with big data software provider Celebrus Technologies to capture data about users' interactions with Cengage's products. MoreGoogle is now taking applications for a limited preview of a new app called Google Classroom — a tool that brings learning management functionality to the Google Apps for Education suite. More
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