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7/21/2010

Spotlight

  • The Technology That Saved a University Degree Program

    Videoconferencing has been promoted as a way for classes to meet during storms and pandemics. It has provided a way for students to get instruction from experts around the world. But at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis the technology has also helped sustain an academic degree that might otherwise not have survived.

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News & Product Updates

  • Weill Cornell 3D Cave Helps Researchers Visualize Data

    Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has gone public with an installation of a "3D cave" for biomedical research put in place several years ago using high definition projectors. The system, set up in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, allows researchers to reconstruct data in an immersive 3D environment using eight virtual reality projectors.

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  • Epson Module Turns Projectors into Interactive Devices

    Epson has unveiled a new interactive module for use with projectors and a 5 megapixel document camera.

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  • Blackboard To Expand Content Options

    Blackboard has teamed up with textbook providers McGraw-Hill, Follett, and Barnes & Noble to enhance the availability of educational content in Blackboard Learn, the company's flagship online learning management platform.

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  • Barnes & Noble To Release Free E-Textbook App in August

    Barnes & Noble is making a play to broaden its reach into colleges and universities. The bookseller will be introducing a free application specifically for higher ed that lets users manage all of their digital content on a computer.

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  • Connect 2.0 To Add File Sharing, Expand Course Offerings

    McGraw-Hill Higher Education has unveiled an update to Connect, the company's Web-based teaching and learning platform for colleges and universities. To be released in the fall, Connect 2.0 will include improvements in some of the current features and will be expanded to include world language courses.

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  • EMS Master Calendar Updated for Social Network Sharing

    Dean Evans & Associates has released a new version of EMS Master Calendar, its online calendar software. The application provides users in an organization access to a central calendar of events. Release 3.1 provides improved control of events imported from the company's scheduling system and tighter integration with social networking sites and other Web-based calendar programs.

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