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Technology leaders must participate in strategy creation as well as operational delivery within higher education institutions. The future of higher education—the view to tomorrow—is irrevocably integrated and intertwined with evolving technologies such as alternative IT sourcing and mobility.SOURCE: EDUCAUSE REVIEWRead the Full Article
Predictive analytics can help schools quickly identify at-risk students—so they can intervene before it’s too lateSOURCE: eSchool News Read the Full Article
Children and adult minds are changing because of the internet and smart phones—putting more pressure on schools to teach deeper thinkingSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
More Than 150,000 Soldiers Annually Will Train on Blackboard PlatformSOURCE: PR NewsireRead the Press Release
Lavish electronic-book projects point toward the pinnacle of the medium.SOURCE: MIT Technology Review Read the Full Article
Jaden Lender, 3, sings along softly with the “Five Little Monkeys” app on the family iPad, and waggles his index finger along with the monkey doctor at the warning, “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” He likes crushing the ants in “Ant Smasher,” and improving his swing in the golf app.SOURCE: The New York […]
The symbiosis between higher education and the tech companies that serve it has been corrupted, says Bradley Wheeler — CIO for the Indiana University SystemSOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Websites have all begun to look the same and need to start looking more like print media, the founder of Flipboard, the popular social media magazine iPad app, has said.SOURCE: The TelegraphRead the Full Article
Microsoft today introduced Kinect “playful learning,” an initiative to deliver enriching and entertaining content for children on Kinect for Xbox 360. The company also announced new games and experiences for kids, including interactive television episodes of Sesame Street and National Geographic.SOURCE: MicrosoftRead the Press Release
In one of her first public appearances as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard this month, Meg Whitman beamed in by videoconference to a meeting of college technology leaders to announce the company’s participation in what colleges are calling a “community cloud”—a pool of high-performance computers that researchers can tap into online, as needed, from any participating […]
