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If your organization is on board with Microsoft Teams, there are quite a few ways that you can get the most out of the collaboration service. We’ve already highlighted some tips and tricks for Teams, but did you know that you can also add some of your favorite apps as “Tabs” to Teams? If your […]
CHICAGO, Ill. Educause Booth #1231 — October 15, 2019 — Mediasite today announces powerful new features that give users better control over how students experience video lectures, ensuring the most impactful, data-rich and searchable study tools for all. Sonicfoundry
Digitization of Credentials: Quality of Shorter-Term Educational Experiences Human beings are compulsive learners. Throughout our ever-longer lives we are constantly processing knowledge. New facts, new experiences and new insights please our nerve cells. While we sleep at night our brain is archiving what we have learned that day. These neurological facts make us all lifelong learners, […]
The fall semester has begun and we wanted to share some exciting updates we’ve made to McGraw-Hill technology platforms for the 2019-20 school year. Each is designed to help more students succeed and to help instructors save time and get better results. Check them out below! McGraw-Hill
CHICAGO — Oct. 15, 2019 — Today at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, Instructure(NYSE: INST) announced that Portfolium, a student portfolio network acquired earlier in the year, is now integrated within the Canvas Learning Management Platform. The combined capabilities allow students to showcase their achievements, projects, and competencies to potential employers. Students can create a Folio […]
BOSTON—October 11, 2019 —A growing number of college leaders across the U.S. are choosing to offer Cengage Unlimited campus-wide in order to give their students more affordable access to textbooks and course materials. While students at more than 5,000 institutions can purchase Cengage Unlimited, more than 70 institutions are delivering the subscription service at-scale through […]
CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — EDUCAUSE — Blackboard Inc., a leading education technology company for teaching, learning and student engagement, today announced the launch of Blackboard Chatbot Powered By Ivy.AI, a live conversation simulation tool offering students, instructors, and staff constant personalized support. The chatbot joins a growing suite of accessible and convenient Student […]
Openness in education is an evolving concept which is shaped by the changing needs of societies, cultures, geographies, and economies, thus, it does not have a precise definition. By focusing on four sets of generic keywords – open education, open learning, open educational resources (OERs), and open educational practices (OEPs) – this paper examines research […]
There is no longer any doubt about whether the field has been paying attention to “the question of who owns language” (Lunsford & West, p. 383). Today, a vast trove of IP scholarship exists within disciplinary coffers, ranging from issues of textual circulation (e.g., DeVoss & Porter, 2006; Edwards, 2018; Gries, 2015; Ridolfo & DeVoss, […]
When faculty need to use technology that is not familiar to them, it may take more time to integrate into to their teaching. The purpose of this study was to gather data on the ease of use and usefulness of the Blackboard LMS in anticipation of transitioning to a new LMS. A survey with the […]