Features
- Evolutionary in Technology, Revolutionary in Impact
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4/25/2007
Ken Klingenstein has led national networking initiatives for the last 25 years. He's participated in the development of the Internet from its inception and says he's had one of the best seats to watch the evolution of network infrastructure and applications.
- Software Boosts Math Success Rates at Black Hills State U
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4/25/2007
An artificial-intelligence based tutoring system that gauges student understanding of math and helps them learn at their own pace has greatly boosted student progress and retention in college algebra at Black Hills State University.
- Outsourcing CMS in Iowa
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4/18/2007
The Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC), made up of seven community colleges, is using an outsourced LMS to offer its online courses to students across Iowa....
- Can We Protect the Next Virginia Tech?
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4/16/2007
This morning I woke up (on the West Coast) to news of yet another horrific report of a school or campus massacre—one of “monumental” proportions at Virginia Tech....
- Once More unto the Breach
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4/13/2007
This month's announcement of a potential data security breach at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) may have come as a shock to the 46,000....
- Text Messaging Service Keeps UF Students in the Loop
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4/11/2007
At the University of Florida, about 10,000 of the school's nearly 50,000 students have subscribed to Mobile Campus since it was introduced.
- Classroom Recordings Augment Lectures at U of Alabama
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4/4/2007
Products that can record a classroom lecture and make it available after the fact sometimes raise concerns that class attendance will drop off as a result.
- Audio in an Asynchronous Learning Environment
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4/3/2007
As with any higher educational institution, the University of Advancing Technology seeks to engage students on a multitude of levels. In the Summer of 2006....
- Serving the Online Learner
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4/1/2007
Systems and services for recruiting, advising, and support of online students have seldom been at the top of the list when planning online and distance learning programs. That is now changing: Forces pushing advising and support services into the foreground include recognition of the student learner as “customer” and the increasing expectations and demands of government and business in our global information economy.
- The Rise of the CISO
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4/1/2007
The ‘chief information security officer’ role is increasingly important for higher ed, as new cyber security challenges loom on the horizon.
- Online Tutorials Grab the Attention of Philadelphia U
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3/28/2007
"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
- Multi-Point Videoconferencing at Indiana University
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3/21/2007
In a state full of distinguished colleges and universities, Indiana University has a long history as an early adopter of advanced media technologies.
- Turnitin: Fighting Plagiarism and Saving Time at Fresno State
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3/14/2007
CSU Fresno has implemented Turnitin for combating plagiarism on campus. But one professor is using its modular features to save time with grading and record keeping as well.
- Profile: Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
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3/12/2007
Transitoning the digital animation program from high-end workstations to desktop systems
- Offline Management of Online Courses at Ivy Tech
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3/7/2007
Ivy Tech is a large Indianapolis-based community college with 23 campuses across the state, along with some 100,000 students and 8,000 instructors.
- VoIP for Synchronous Learning
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3/1/2007
The challenge facing every university that supports an online curriculum is creating engaging materials that make online courses more than glorified textbooks.
- The Successful CIO: Vision, Focus, and Execution
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2/28/2007
Retired this last January, John Camp was deputy CIO or CIO at Wayne State University (MI) for the last 10 years and in IT leadership positions there since 1985.
- Portal Power at Western Michigan
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2/28/2007
Imagine that everyone who enters your college or university is guided through a single main gate onto campus....
- Ohio University Opens Virtual Doors
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2/26/2007
Last year, Ohio University purchased two islands and built several buildings on it....
- Data Mining & Business Intelligence >> Open for Business
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2/1/2007
Open source BI is attracting the attention of campus IT departments because it’s quick to deploy and often less costly. But is it for you?
- Location-Aware Services >> Where on Earth...?
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2/1/2007
As ubiquitous computing efforts expand, the need to know where other people and devices are becomes critical to split-second decision-making. The question is: Will higher ed lead the LAS movement for the mainstream, as well?
- Is Your Campus Color Smart?
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1/17/2007
We've all in our lives made the mistake of thinking of color as this fixed quantity--some sort of absolute that can be communicated, interpreted, and reproduced losslessly. The sky is blue. The tree is green. The car is red. I can write those words, and the colors materialize in your mind. But are the colors you "see" in your mind the same as the ones I intended to communicate to you? In other words, do they match? Surely not.
- At U Richmond, Remote Support Cuts Costs
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1/8/2007
One of the challenges of multimedia classrooms can be supporting them in an efficient, cost-effective manner. After all, each element you add to a classroom means another piece of equipment that can fail.
- Aux Out
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1/3/2007
Fear, uncertainty, doubt, and hope are reflected in typical teacher stations, podiums, and classroom equipment racks in the form of auxiliary input/output connector panels. Checking the auxiliary connector panel in a college or university classroom will give you some insights about the room’s system designer.
- Interactive Podiums Display Multimedia Content
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1/3/2007
Interactive whiteboards, which allow instructors to use an electronic board in class to display and edit information, have proved popular over time. One issue: the boards sometimes aren’t big enough to have all of the content seen and read from the back of a large class.
