Campus Technology: Customizing the Learning Experience with an Adaptive Learning Strategy

IT Solutions for Two-Year Schools

7/3/2013

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Customizing the Learning Experience with an Adaptive Learning Strategy
At Union County College, an adaptive learning strategy helps college bound students prepare for success in college-credit bearing courses over the summer--potentially avoiding developmental ed courses when they enter college in the fall.
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Blackboard Validates Mozilla Digital Badges
Mozilla's Open Badges initiative has received the official nod from educational technology company Blackboard, which has integrated digital badges into its learning management systems Blackboard Learn and CourseSites.
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Snapshot: College-Age Kids Come Well Equipped
Americans of traditional college age are loaded up with personal devices and have the highest rate of ownership of mobile phones among all age groups, according to a new report released this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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$50 For-Credit MOOC Goes Bust — for Now
A school-vendor partnership intended to test a new twist on the MOOC went belly-up a day after it was announced.
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Kaplan Study: Gamification and Badging Succeed in the Online Classroom
Kaplan University's School of Information Technology is expanding its gamification and badging efforts following positive results from a recently conducted pilot program.
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Report: Students Taking Online Courses Jumps 96 Percent over 5 Years
The number of college students taking at least one online course nearly doubled, from 23 percent to 45, over the last five years according to the 2013 College Explorer, a new report from market research company re:fuel.
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Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform Expands Capture Capabilities, Audio Search
Sonic Foundry is rolling out a major update to its flagship lecture capture system, the Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform, with new software and hardware additions and a new My Mediasite interface for creating and uploading media.
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Lectora Releases On-Demand Learning Management System, Updates E-Learning Software
Lectora is kicking off a private beta of a new cloud-based, on-demand learning management system, Lectora Express LMS.
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From flipped classrooms to distance learning: How it all works
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