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Microsoft Cloud Gets Internet2 Expressway To Universities
May 23, 2013
Microsoft's cloud data centers get direct peering with Internet2, the high-speed network for education and research. This gives schools faster access to data.
iPad Exam App Takes Testing Offline
May 21, 2013
ExamSoft app not only makes the Web off limits, it creates new possibilities, such as med school tests in the morgue.
Jive Scales Producteev App, Now Free
May 21, 2013
Social task management tool Jive acquired last year becomes free as a standalone app. Integration with the Jive platform to follow.
Texas School District Picks Dell Windows 8 Tablets
May 17, 2013
Schools CTO who picked iPad in his last job says things have changed.
Ed Tech, Privatization And Plunder
May 17, 2013
All the reasons to be suspicious of the political-industrial conspiracy against public education and public universities.
Voice Dream Reader: Affordable TTS For Disabled Users
May 15, 2013
During a life-changing year in the Arctic, former enterprise software CTO created a life-changing mobile app for disabled users.
Salesforce Improves Mobile Access To Chatter Files
May 15, 2013
Salesforce.com's new Chatter mobile app makes browsing and searching files easier on phones and tablets.
Desire2Learn Predicts Students' Best Classes
May 13, 2013
Latest edition of learning management system makes educational recommendations "like Netflix," while giving early warning on struggling students.
Hacking Higher Education
May 13, 2013
The cybersecurity challenge on college campuses lies as much with the students as with malicious outsiders.
When Education Gets Too Virtual
May 13, 2013
Students can use technology to undermine the integrity of education.
Interop Cloud Experts Debate SDN's Future
May 09, 2013
SDN aims to make networks easy to configure in software rather than hardware. The goal is to provide data centers with flexibility on the level associated with cloud computing.
Interop: Open Compute Project To Tackle Network Switching
May 08, 2013
Open Compute Project initiated by Facebook sets its sights on network switching as the next target for open innovation.
Interop: Higher Ed CIOs Focus On Bandwidth, Mobility
May 08, 2013
At Interop Las Vegas 2013, University of New Hampshire CIO Joanna Young and Seton Hill University's Phil Komarny discuss blossoming wireless bandwidth demands.
Interop: Expert Advice On IT ROI, Chargeback
May 08, 2013
Proliferation of commodity IT services makes it ever more important to rigorously account for the costs and value of internal IT.
Podio Adds IM; Video Chat Coming Soon
May 02, 2013
Citrix's task-focused social business tool adds real-time collaboration to online workspaces.
MOOCs: What University CIOs Really Think
May 02, 2013
Why Wesleyan embraced Coursera, Amherst rejected edX, and Rollins is going its own way.
Higher Ed CIOs Can't Ignore MOOCs Or Politics
April 30, 2013
Now more than ever, a higher education CIO's job hinges on both surviving the academic politics of the institution and mastering bleeding-edge technologies.
Explore Frontiers Of Social Business At E2
April 29, 2013
Making collaboration and community technologies speak your language is just one example of the still-untapped potential of global social business.
CIO Profiles: Ellen Borkowski Of Union College
April 24, 2013
Ellen Borkowski's CIO responsibilities at small liberal arts college include her twin technology objectives: make teaching and learning more effective.
Higher Education Taps Teambox For Social Collaboration
April 23, 2013
Teambox, as a task-oriented, cloud-based social collaboration tool, is a flexible option for collaborative learning and other campus projects.
Vidyo Videoconferencing Coming To Internet2
April 22, 2013
Internet2 member universities will soon be able to add Vidyo to their subscriptions for high-speed network access.
MOOC Founder Stresses Partnership With Teachers
April 18, 2013
Lynda Weinman assures educators that popular tutorials website Lynda.com wants to be a resource, not a replacement, for schools and universities.
Modo Labs Showcases Mobile College Admissions
April 17, 2013
Admissions 2.0, which lets prospective students learn about a school, set up a visit and apply for admission, is part of a broader Mobile Campus offering.
Udemy Comes To Corporate Training
April 16, 2013
Udemy for Organizations lets companies create their own branded learning channels and create private courses with Udemy's tools.
Canvas LMS Maker Launches Open Education Apps Directory
April 12, 2013
Learning management system developer Instructure promotes the Learning Tools Interoperability specification as it preps its own Canvas App Center.