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CT Briefs
10/1/2008
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STARTING DOWN AN ONLINE PATH. At Kaplan University (IA), incoming students can now maximize their own career paths using MyPath, the university's program that leverages student success diagnostics and assessment tools with an internet-based career planning system from Kuder. The key: doing this right from the start. "By utilizing these assessments before students begin their academic programs, we can help them personalize their education, zero in on their career goals, and have a stellar academic experience," explains Wade Britt, Kaplan's executive director of academic operations. Read more here.
BRYANT STUDENTS AND FACULTY now can access hundreds of educational videos on demand, from anywhere on campus.
VIDEO ON DEMAND MEANS VIDEO IN DEMAND. Bryant University's (RI) selection of VBrick Sytems has paid off: Students and faculty are taking ample advantage of their new, on-demand access to hundreds of educational videos. Earlier, the school "lacked an efficient way of making the videos easily available, and feared [its] investment would be underutilized," says Daniel Greene, a media production specialist at Bryant. "Now, [users] can just log in to one location from anywhere on campus and get access to several hundred videos at once."
SHOW ME THE
GREEN. With green content
getting hotter, institutions
are seeking outlets to
distribute such information
widely. Always ready to
innovate, Arizona State
University collaborated
with Modavox to webcast
the school's Sustainability
Summit this fall. "We are
delighted that we could
partner with Modavox to webcast this
discussion to an international audience,"
says Virgil Renzulli, ASU's VP
for public affairs. Read more here.
WHERE ANGELS DON'T FEAR TO TREAD. The University of Alabama in Huntsville has adopted the Angel Learning Management Suite to make content and collaboration tools available 24/7 to the institution's 7,000 students. "We're not going to change how today's students think," comments Bobbi Jo Rissmann, an instructional technology administrator at UA. "We have to reach them using the tools that are meaningful to them." Read more here.
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