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Coordinating a geographically dispersed student body that learns primarily online is just one of the key challenges that modern institutions of higher education are facing. With more education taking place online--and in some cases, all of that education happening on the Web--colleges are being forced to rethink their classroom and student management strategies. MoreOcean County College in New Jersey is advancing its institutional goal to exploit the potential for distance learning. More
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Blackboard has released updates to Elluminate Live and Wimba Classroom, two software tools that make up its Collaborate suite. MoreAcceptance of digital texts is way up, especially among users of iPads and other tablets. In fact, according to research released this week, time spent reading texts in digital formats now just about equals the time spent on paper-based texts. MoreThe American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) will be using a plagiarism checking service to assess admission essays going forward. MoreNEC this week debuted two new entry-level mobile classroom projectors, both coming in at less than $600. MorePearson Learning Solutions, which develops and markets the online learning management system LearningStudio and custom textbooks, will now be offering its customers Panopto's technology for recording and publishing lectures. MoreA research university in London's East End has adopted a new virtual lab system for delivering "hands-on" learning to graduate and undergraduate students studying Internet protocol- and infrastructure-related topics. MoreFaculty members at Carnegie Mellon are expanding their experiment with a social networking site designed to spur readers' participation in discussions on articles and papers. So far, thousands of high school and university students have tried out Classroom Salon, which allows a reader to add comments, annotations, and tags to passages in text that can be read by others. More
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