eLearning/CMS
- ASU School of Engineering Posts 10,000th Lecture with Mediasite
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11/7/2008
Students at the Arizona State University (ASU) Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering now have access to more online lectures than any other university in the country, according to Sonic Foundry, the company that provides the Webcasting platform the school uses. The school recently recorded its 10,000th lecture.
- Moodle Gets Student Verification Capabilities
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11/6/2008
Moodlerooms and Acxiom Risk Mitigation have teamed up to deliver a new solution to help verify student identities in higher education distance learning using Moodle, the popular open source learning management system.
- Bryant University Takes On-Demand Approach to Multimedia Delivery
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11/5/2008
Extending classroom walls through educational videos and other multimedia offerings has become common in higher education but often brings its own set of challenges. Managing the increasing amount of multimedia content, along with cataloging new material, such as live recordings, can be costly.
- Wimba Collaboration Suite Enhances Moodle Integration
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11/3/2008
Wimba recently announced that it's expanded its support for Moodle, the popular open source learning management system. The enhanced support is designed to make it easier to integrate the Wimba Collaboration Suite in Moodle environments and broaden the features available, including a new new voice-mail feature that instructors and students can use to talk (literally) about homework or other issues.
- Tegrity Launches Enhanced Lecture Capture for Campus 2.0
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10/29/2008
Tegrity is updating its Tegrity Campus 2.0 class capture Web service with the introduction of Tegrity Community. According to the company, the update facilitates communication and collaboration among students, faculty, IT/ET staff, and campus administrators within and between institutions. Users can exchange best practices and course content, as well as brainstorm ideas for enhancing class capture ROI.
- Iowa State To Develop Moodle-Blackboard Integration Software
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10/28/2008
Iowa State University and Blackboard have partnered to develop technologies that will allow Blackboard's learning environment to integrate with the open-source Moodle learning management system. Iowa State will lead the development effort, with Blackboard providing support.
- Elluminate Phases In Learning Suite Upgrades
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10/28/2008
Ed tech developer Elluminate announced Tuesday that it's beginning a phased rollout of new versions of its Elluminate Learning Suite components, including Live V9 and Publish V2, as well as Elluminate vSpaces. New features are being rolled into these virtual learning applications now through December.
- LodeStar Integrates with eFolioWorld Portfolio
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10/27/2008
LodeStar Learning has announced a new partnership with eFolioWorld to integrate its electronic learning authoring suite, LodeStar, with the eFolioWorld electronic portfolio system. eFolioWorld is a hosted portfolio system developed jointly by ed tech provider Avenet and the Minnesota State College and Universities System.
- Saba To Extend Collaboration Platform with Enterprise Social Networking System
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10/24/2008
Education technology developer Saba this week debuted a new solution it describes as an "enterprise social networking platform." The new system, Saba Social, is designed to extend Saba's collaboration platform and provide a vehicle for delivering and capturing informal, peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange.
- Designing a Working Space for Chat
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10/22/2008
In the first installment this two-part series, we looked at chat as an instructional tool in general terms. Now we take a look at some of the major concepts in using chat effectively in the process of moving the thinking process forward: building ideas, constructing media, and establishing which elements are critical to making the environment dynamic and relevant to the student.
- Mississippi Community Colleges Deploy Collaborative Tools
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10/21/2008
The Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges (MSBCJC) has selected the Wimba Collaboration Suite to deploy throughout Mississippi, allowing students and educators to connect through online video, voice, text, application sharing, polling, and white boarding.
- Lightweight Repository Allows Language Teachers To Share Resources
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10/21/2008
The University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is leading a project that will make it possible for language teachers to share their learning resources easily. The Language Box is a lightweight repository that acts as a host for language teachers to deposit their resources and share them with friends and colleagues in their community.
- Using Chat To Move the Thinking Process Forward
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10/15/2008
The idea of using chat as a communication tool with students is widely accepted in education. Using the same tool to progress critical thinking is not often discussed. That is, the question might be asked, "Why use an online tool when I can discuss with my students face to face?"
- Web 2.0: Good for Education?
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10/15/2008
We are seeing trends in higher education, good and maybe otherwise, that reflect the re-structuring of knowledge systems that seem to come with a point in time we're calling Web 2.0. Educational leadership in this environment means reform at an institutional level, not just technology adoption.
- Is Higher Ed Technology Keeping Up with Student Demand?
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10/14/2008
Students see campus technology is a key factor in selecting a college or university and consider it critical for their professional development. Yet higher education institutions on the whole aren't keeping up with student needs in this area, according to a new report released Monday by CDW Government (CDW-G).
- Focus on Institutional Culture Drives Faculty Technology Adoption at Genesee CC
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10/8/2008
Too often, institutions spend precious resources implementing a learning management system and associated collaboration, teaching and learning tools, only to find that a relatively small percentage of faculty use the tools to any significant degree. At Genesee Community College (GCC), we have achieved high faculty usage of online learning tools by focusing on institutional culture.
- The Institutional Path for Change in This Age: Andragogy, not Pedagogy
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10/8/2008
Our ontology about teaching and learning is no longer workable. It is time for a change from pedagogy to andragogy and evidence-based learning.
- Digital Arts Alliance Adds Fordham U
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10/6/2008
The Digital Arts Alliance, a consortium led by the Pearson Foundation that promotes digital arts in K-12 education, is expanding its membership with the addition of Fordham University. This follows on the heels of three other organizations joining the group back in July--the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation, the Foundation for Investor Education, and Employers For Education Excellence (E3).
- Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
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10/1/2008
Blogging can be an effective tool for learning, but its benefits shouldn't be taken for granted. It takes careful planning and skillful management to make it work in an educational setting. Here are five of the most common mistakes for instructors to avoid when incorporating blogs into instruction.
- Stanford Testing iPhone Application Suite
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10/1/2008
A suite of five software applications developed by students at Stanford University to run on Apple's iPhone is now being tested on campus. Two are for students, to manage course registration and bills. The other three will allow users to access Stanford's searchable campus map, get team scores and schedules, and check listings in the university's online directory, StanfordWho.
- Online University Aims To Boost Rural Math and Science Teachers
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10/1/2008
In an effort to increase the number of graduates pursuing science and math teaching careers in rural areas, Western Governors University, an online university, is awarding 150 new scholarships through its new WGU Scholarships for Rural Mathematics and Science Educators program. A portion of a recent $3 million grant from the United States Department of Labor is funding the scholarships.
- North Seattle CC Adds Plato Online Algebra Course to Math Formula
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9/30/2008
North Seattle Community College (NSCC) will be adopting Plato Learning's newest online software for post-secondary--Academic Systems Algebra--to support the college's developmental mathematics courses. The math series covers the principles of algebra in a self-paced online format. Since spring 2008, NSCC has utilized Academic Systems Algebra to instruct 200 students enrolled in basic, elementary, and intermediate algebra courses.
- DePaul Weaves SS&C Tech Finance Material into Hybrid Graduate Course
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9/29/2008
Chicago's DePaul University is trying out SS&C Technologies Zoologic Learning Solutions as its Web-based course content provider for graduate-level finance courses. Students will use 10 Zoologic Web-based courses as online study material in the "Financial Statement and Security Analysis" course. Zoologic course topics include accounting, credit risk, and equity.
- Serena Acquisition Takes Aim at Microsoft Project
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9/29/2008
Serena Software acquired Projity Wednesday and is promoting that company's software as an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.
- Crown College Adopts Angel To Support Online Learning
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9/26/2008
Crown College, a Christian college in St. Bonifacius, MN with about 1,200 students, has decided to replace its existing online course management service with the Angel Learning Management Suite (LMS).
