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Higher education institutions dealing with ongoing budgetary and staffing challenges are looking to create greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness in their operations. One intriguing option on this front is implementing an enterprise content management (ECM) system as a shared service. This Center for Digital Education strategy paper, sponsored by Laserfiche, takes a look at the advantages […]
NSF investments in the development of innovative applications to address societal challenges yielding a brighter future National Science Foundation Full Article
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, an initiative of Stanford and Columbia universities, has awarded seed funding to students of both schools to develop media technologies that could transform how news content is produced, delivered and consumed. Stanford University Press Release
This essay addresses the question of change as it is expressed in debates on the introduction and use of new digital technologies in contemporary education. It sets out some of the terms of this debate, concerning MOOCs in particular, and puts into question the very conception of change they presume. The essay advocates a distinction […]
Includes Next Generation of “CC” Desktop Applications and Delivers Fully Integrated Cross-Device Collaboration, Community and Publishing Capabilities Adobe Press Release
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development was launched by Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Mrs. Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in May 2010 in response to the call by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, to step up […]
In a Q&A, authors Frank McCluskey and Melanie Winter discuss how the forces that have brought about the current crop of challenges in higher education are the same ones that can help solve them. Campus Technology Full Article
Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the “send” button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program. The New York Times Full Article
Colleges and Universities on June 1 will have access to the source code for what has been dubbed the “Linux of learning” after not-for-profit educational enterprise edX teamed up with Stanford University in making available a host of open-source online learning tools. eCampus News Full Article
Twitter Chats seem to be all the rage on the microblogging site. Vendors, social media experts, regular users, customers, analysts, journalists and just about anyone can join in on the conversations, which cover a variety of topics. There are Twitter Chats on any number of subject areas, but in the technology industry, they seem to […]
