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Denver — Clay Shirky is one of the country’s most prominent Internet thinkers—“a spiritual guide to the wired set,” as The Chronicle Review put it in a 2010 profile of him. In his latest book, Cognitive Surplus, the New York University professor argues that a flowering of creative production will arise as the Internet Wired […]
COLLEGE STATION – Students desiring a master’s or doctorate degree from Texas A&M University in plant breeding will no longer have to make the move to College Station, according to university officials. North Texas e-News Full Article
DENVER, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. and Kaltura, the leading open source video platform, announced today an expanded partnership across Blackboard’s learning platforms. Institutions using Moodlerooms’s Moodle-based platform, joule, can now access Kaltura’s advanced video tools directly in their learning management system. Blackboard Press Release
Digital technology is providing a growing variety of methods for school leaders to connect with parents anywhere, anytime—a tactic mirroring how technology is used to engage students. Education Week Full Article
Interview with CATHERINE LOVELADY Army Continuing Education System Country Supervisor, U.S. Forces, Afghanistan Military Advanced Education Read the Full Interview
Colonel Matthew Clarke currently serves as the commander of the Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) in Orlando, Fla., a subordinate organization under the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Human, Research and Engineering Directorate. He assumed his duties in June 2012, after serving as the assistant to the director – […]
Blackboard has started beta testing a new LMS-agnostic, cloud-based learning object repository, xpLor. Seventy-two K-12 schools, colleges, and universities have joined the beta program as of Nov. 5, Blackboard reported. Campus Technology Full Article
Pearson, a major textbook publisher, continued its push into digital education on Monday by introducing a service that allows instructors to create e-textbooks using open-access content and Pearson material. Wired Campus Full Article
A 1,700-page physics classic is undergoing a major mobile makeover at Georgia Tech. Researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute have already replaced the first chapter of The Infrared Handbook with an in-house app. And they have plans to create at least two more apps as they turn a static physics textbook into an e-book, […]
Two software companies that sell course-management systems, Blackboard and Instructure, have entered the race to provide free online courses for the masses. Wired Campus Full Article