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- 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.
- White Paper: Solutions Kit: WiFi in Education
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1/2/2007
- Wireless Takes American Campuses by Storm
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1/2/2007
US colleges and universities across the country are embracing wireless networking technology with a zeal that is nothing short of phenomenal. The driving force behind wireless connectivity on campus is that it offers myriad benefits for both students and faculty, including greater access and mobility as well as increased collaboration.
- Social Software, Social Revolution
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12/29/2006
MOVE OVER, MYSPACE. STEP ASIDE, FACEBOOK. These two technologies may have been pioneers in the world of social software, but nowadays, colleges and universities across the country are embracing better and more targeted forms of technology, to enable their campus users to interact. Today, the world of social software includes traditional venues and formats: blogs, wikis, and podcasts.
- Advanced Teaching Technologies: Brave New World
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12/28/2006
MOST EDUCATORS WORK in brick buildings and the physical world, but Ed Dieterle prefers a virtual alternative. Dieterle is an advanced doctoral candidate and researcher at Harvard University (MA). His current focus is the River City Project, a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) that’s similar in look and feel to The Sims, a popular online simulation game from Electronic Arts.
- Course Management Systems: A Tipping Point
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12/28/2006
It’s near-impossible to think about course management systems (CMS) without thinking about innovation, collaboration, and the sharing of ideas across institutions and even from vendor to vendor. Yet, “the next step” in CMS now means distinctly different things to various colleges and universities as, going forward, they consider their landscapes of learning, and requisites that didn’t even exist five years ago.
- CT Solutions
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12/27/2006
- Digital Publishing: Imperfect, but Improving
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12/27/2006
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a student named Jason. Jason was studying physics remotely, although he was not sure why he was studying physics. (What he really wanted to do was build some gaming simulations.) But physics was a required course and the new term was just starting. So, after playing the video of his faculty introducing the course and the study of physics, Jason got down to arranging for access to the course materials.
- Tuning in to Wireless
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12/27/2006
Gary Landau is director of network services at Loyola Marymount University (CA), where he is responsible for leading the school’s network infrastructure and telecom teams to support voice and data communications. No one is more tuned in to wireless these days than Landau, because LMU is now in the process of completing a campuswide wireless network of nearly 400 access points (APs). Landau hopes that the university can leverage wireless connectivity to help students and faculty innovate, and he knows that careful planning of the wireless network can make all the difference. Here, he shares his Top 10 things to remember when taking your campus wireless.
- Making Faculty Smarter about Smart Technology
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11/29/2006
If you’re not also enabling the ‘why’ or ‘what’ behind the tech tools you give your faculty, you’re not enabling effective use of those tools.
- Response Devices Keep FSU Students Focused
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11/27/2006
Attendance is up and the number of students dozing off in class is down in Joe Calhoun’s economics classes at Florida State University (FSU). And that’s despite an increase in class size recently, with new lecture halls that seat up to 500 students at a time.
- Kansas State University Podcasting Initiative
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11/14/2006
For the past several years, K-State has used technology from Tegrity to record class sessions with video, audio, and multimedia. Presently, close to 200 classes across the university are captured using this technology.
- Speaking Their Language: UCLA Language Courses Use Online Voice Tools
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11/6/2006
It’s tough to master a new language without speaking it, of course. So it follows that language courses that incorporate speaking as much as possible can help students learn faster and better, and help professors better assess their progress.
- Google Apps and the New American University
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10/23/2006
This month Arizona State University (ASU) and Google made the first large-scale deployment of Google Apps for Education, to the ASU student community.
- 'Ole Miss' Turns to New Document Management Solution
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10/23/2006
Even with its many sophisticated computer systems, the University of Mississippi, like most campuses, still deals with lots of paper.
- Storing Lots of Classroom Content at Fitchburg State
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10/9/2006
Most of today’s splashiest new classroom technologies have at least one thing in common – they tend to require lots of storage space on the campus network.
- Proof of Life
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10/8/2006
- The Evolving Growth of LON-CAPA
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10/3/2006
As educational institutions establish an online presence, initial successes are often due to individual faculty members (“early adopters” of this new technology), working long hours to develop material more or less single-handedly. Frequently, they are leaving behind scattered projects, which are of intrinsic value, but of little use for the institution and far less for the larger academic community.
