Campus Technology: Teaching in One-Minute Snippets

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11/10/2010

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Teaching in One-Minute Snippets
A New Mexico college is successfully integrating micro-lectures into classroom instruction. Can students and faculty members benefit from 60-second chunks of knowledge?
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News & Product Updates

D2L Learning Suite Gets Live@edu Integration
Desire2Learn is integrating Microsoft's Live@edu service into its Learning Suite, an educational software package that includes a learning management system, electronic portfolio, learning repository, and analytics tool.
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Blackboard Moves Mobile Central Suite onto Android
Blackboard has brought its Mobile Central app to the Android platform. The app, intended for smart phones, is custom-built for each institution then made available to the campus community for free.
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National College Adds Virtual Environment to Tech Training
National College has gone public with its use of online training curriculum in its tech program at one of its campuses.
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Kno E-Reader Tablets To Start at $599
Kno Inc. said Monday night that it is now accepting preorders for its first generation single- and dual-screen electronic textbook readers. The tablets will initially run $599 for the single-screen model and $899 for the dual-screen model and are expected to be delivered, at least to some customers, by the end of the year.
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Conservation Contest Lets Campuses Vie To Be Biggest Losers
A three-week competition will put a focus on reducing energy and water usage as well as greenhouse gas emissions in 38 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
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Cloud Integrator Boomi To Be Acquired by Dell
Dell this week said it will acquire Boomi, which operates a service designed to simplify the integration of cloud services with premises-based infrastructure.
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Brief: Utility Converts Books to EPUB Format
Assistive technology developer Don Johnston Inc. has released a new tool that allows users to convert electronic books to the EPUB format, used by Android and iOS devices, among other electronic book readers and tablet devices.
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