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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.
Daytona State College Adapts LMS To Improve Student Outcome
April 11, 2013
College uses Desire2Learn to better manage online learning programs as well as measure student achievement.
Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers
April 09, 2013
Edmodo's rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management system.
How Rafter Helps Colleges Cut Textbook Costs
April 05, 2013
Textbook rental broker finds niche partnering with public colleges to lower the cost of higher education.
Robotics Competition: Tomorrow's Tech Talent Has Game
April 02, 2013
At the FIRST Robotics Competition, teens learn about technology trade-offs, strategy and teamwork. NASA and major tech firms say the contest shapes tomorrow's tech leaders.
Robotics Rumble: Teens Fight For Tech Glory
April 02, 2013
Go inside a FIRST Robotics regional competition in Ft. Lauderdale, where tomorrow's tech leaders put robot creations to the test.
Cloud-Based LMS Wins Over Abilene Christian University
March 28, 2013
Pearson's cloud-based OpenClass learning management system impressed Abilene Christian University as social, modern, flexible -- and free.
MS Touts Education Wins For Windows 8, Office 365
March 27, 2013
Microsoft brags about 10 school and university adopting Windows 8, plus three new university customers for Office 365 Education.
Hope Battles Fear Over Student Data Integration
March 26, 2013
Education data might accomplish more to improve learning if we can overcome concerns about its potential misuse.
Bentley University Shares Drupal Lessons
March 25, 2013
Using the open source software, Bentley's Web team improved the university's branding and functionality and added responsive design for the mobile Web.
What Education Tech Success Stories Share
March 25, 2013
Educational technologies have the potential to stretch dollars and improve education, with the right supporting policies, Brookings Institution reports.
SIU Freshmen Will Get Dell Windows 8 Tablets
March 20, 2013
Southern Illinois University's plan to provide tablets will kick off with the next freshman class. iPads were deemed too expensive and harder to manage, CIO says.
2U Helps Master's Degree Programs Go Online
March 19, 2013
Unlike the new breed of massive open online course, online master's degree programs stress value of small classes and personal connections.
How University Of Oklahoma Protects Records From Disaster
March 18, 2013
Enterprise content management helps University Of Oklahoma make student records safer, more accessible.
IBM Watson's Future: Students Have Winning Ideas
March 15, 2013
University of Southern California students brainstormed novel business uses for the big data-crunching supercomputer; a legal discovery application came out on top.
edX MOOC Software Goes Open Source
March 14, 2013
Non-profit massive open online course startup is open sourcing the software for building interactive course modules.
Open Education: Take Back The Curriculum
March 14, 2013
Textbooks and course materials distributed like open source software are becoming a serious force in both primary and higher education.
12 Open Educational Resources: From Khan to MIT
March 12, 2013
Higher education can now tap into an explosion of educational resources that are free to view, download and modify. That's disruptive to commercial textbooks, media and assessments.