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Providence Equity is the leading candidate to buy Blackboard Inc., the dominant course-management software company in higher education, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source. Blackboard announced in April that it was considering takeover offers from unnamed bidders. SOURCE: Wired Campus Read the Full Article
After trying out the Apple iPad for a short period–about three weeks–three out of four college freshmen said they’d be willing to purchase an Apple iPad personally if at least half of the textbooks they used during their college career were available digitally, according to the results of a classroom poll at Abilene Christian University. […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Kuali Foundation announced the launch of Kuali Mobility Enterprise as a next generation set of tools to connect mobile devices to a variety of campus systems. “Students, faculty, and staff expect to be able to use their smartphones and tablets to get information and do their work,” said Brad Wheeler, Kuali […]
Accessibility for all students is a key concern in IT in higher education, one tied to the core mission of education and underscored by recent federal activity reinforcing the need for compliance in all aspects of technology implementations. Yet institutions are scratching their collective heads over how to make digital information accessible to students with […]
ALBANY, NY (WAMC) – Beginning next month, The U.S. Department of Education is tightening control of its federal aid to higher education beginning through new regulations that will impact colleges offering distance learning courses. Capital District Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports.SOURCE: WAMC Northeast Public RadioRead the Full Article
The Open University has launched two new undergraduate Computing and IT degrees to help the UK overcome a recruitment crisis which sees employers struggling to fill an estimated 110,000 new IT jobs created this year [1]. Developed alongside e-skills UK and representatives from industry, the degrees incorporate work-based learning and offer credit for prior work […]
This measure would require the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and request the University of California to, report to the Legislature on workload and key performance data on distance learning courses, as defined. This measure would require the California Virtual Campus and the California State University to […]
Bruce Maas, chief information officer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been selected as the next information technology leader at UW-Madison, Provost Paul M. DeLuca, Jr. announced today (June 8).SOURCE: UW-MadisonRead the Full Article
The university formally connected its online professional graduate schools through a brand name and website called USCNow on Friday.SOURCE: University of Southern California/Daily TrojanRead the Full Article
U.S. Air Force Captain Jimmy Hernandez will see the University of Cincinnati’s physical campus for the first time when he marches at the Doctoral Hooding and Master’s Recognition Ceremony on June 10.SOURCE: University of Cincinnati Read the Full Story