Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
Campuses will see if electronic textbooks can bring down textbook costs and satisfy student demands, thanks to an Internet2 project eCampus News Full Article
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New Strategies and Partnerships for Learning
Joel Smith, vice provost and CIO at Carnegie Mellon University (PA), believes that education technologists have not yet fully explored the potential of partnering with learning scientists and others seeking to inform instruction. CT talked with Smith about the need for these new partnerships. Campus Technology Full Article
Google’s New Brain Could Have a Big Impact
The Knowledge Graph is rapidly learning about the world. It promises to transform more than just search. MIT Technology Review Full Article
Colleges join internet goliaths in long-awaited protocol change
June 6 was perhaps the most important day in the history of the commercial internet, and hardly anyone noticed. Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and a host of the web’s most visited sites made the switch to the Internet Protocol Version 6 that day—known as World IPv6 Day—marking a momentous shift from the old protocol, IPv4, after […]
Twelve new ed-tech companies to watch
Game-based learning and mobile apps are beginning to catch on in schools—and these also were key characteristics that defined several of the dozen emerging ed-tech companies recognized for their potential by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) last month. eScool News Full Article
$200M high-speed Internet program to benefit university communities
The digital corporation Gigabit Squared on Wednesday (May 23) unveiled its Neighborhood Gateway Program, an initiative that will provide $200 million in funding for up to six Gigabit University (Gig.U) member institutions. Gig.U is a nationwide consortium of universities and communities working toward the development of ultra high-speed networks for leading U.S. universities and their […]
Web literacy: Where the Common Core meets common sense
We believe it’s essential for every teacher to develop lessons that challenge students to learn how to verify sources; here’s one example eSchool News Full Article
eSN Publisher’s Report: Visibility within the cloud
bringing a better experience to students, staff, and others New technologies have emerged that make cloud computing a more dynamic and user-centric experience. Editor’s note: This Publisher’s Report was sponsored by Stoneware Inc. With earlier generations of technology, the term “cloud computing” was an apt description for more reasons than one: As users connected to […]
Countdown to IPv6
What if I told you that the world was running out of postal addresses or phone numbers, and that, in less than two months, many companies you regularly do business with will have a new system of contact information? You’d want to learn more about this system and perhaps make a few preparations, right? Such […]
Polycom® RealPresence® Video Content Management Solutions Deliver Live Video Streaming and Video Recordings to Android and Apple Devices
Polycom extends secure user access to video content beyond traditional PCs and laptops to tablets and smartphones, providing easy access to view live and recorded videos on-demand PLEASANTON, Calif. – May 15, 2012 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), today unveiled updates to Polycom® RealPresence® Video Content […]
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