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5/5/2010

Spotlight

CIO Predicament: What To Do About the iPad
There seem to be two camps when it comes to supporting Apple's iPad on campus: those rushing to adopt the device on a massive scale and those who want nothing to do with it. Timothy M. Chester, CIO and vice provost for academic administration at Pepperdine University, suggests a third possible approach, one that may benefit to students without cutting into limited resources.
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News & Product Updates

McMaster U To Move to Desire2Learn after Blackboard Outages
An Ontario university is switching to Desire2Learn after an academic year filled with problems in trying to keep its newly updated Blackboard learning management system operational.
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8 in 10 Faculty Members Use Social Media
Faculty members in higher education may be more technologically connected than previously assumed. According to a survey put out this week, a little more than 80 percent of them are social media users.
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Singapore Universities Battle Plagiarism with iParadigm Service
Four universities in Singapore have gone public with their adoption of a service to battle plagiarism and teach students how to work with source material.
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U North Carolina Moves Medical Imagery Analysis onto LCoS Projectors
The University of North Carolina has upgraded projectors used in medical imagery analysis with hardware from Canon.
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Maple 14 Expands Collaboration Through MapleCloud Document Exchange
MapleSoft has released Maple 14, an application designed for mathematical education and research, and MapleSim 4, a modeling tool for engineering projects.
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Researchers Add Mouse Movement to Phones and MP3 Players
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out how to use the same kind of inexpensive optical sensors found in a computer mouse to turn mobile phones and MP3 players into input devices.
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Rutgers Outfitting Executive Program Students with Apple iPad
Students in an executive certificate program at Rutgers in Piscataway, NJ this summer will be spiffed with an Apple iPad tablet that includes pre-loaded program materials.
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