Blackboard Gets Bought
he e-learning giant, known for gobbling up smaller companies, is gobbled up by a private equity firm. What does it mean for customers? SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed Read the Full Article
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The Future of Blackboard
As a Gartner research director and previously a faculty member and administrator at three different universities, Marti Harris has been monitoring the higher education software and services segment for a long time. SOURCE: Campus TechnologyRead the Full Article
FCC proposes new e-Rate eligibility rules
A proposed new rule for the federal e-Rate program could discourage schools from buying service contracts when they purchase network equipment, at least one program expert warns.SOURCE: eSchool News Read the Full Article
As Mobile Devices Multiply, Some Colleges Turn Away From Building Campus Apps
Many colleges have published iPhone apps in the last few years that allow people to get campus news, maps, and other information on Apple’s popular smartphones. Then some colleges found they also needed to develop a version for phones running Google’s competing Android system. And some built apps for BlackBerrys as well.SOURCE: The Chronicle of […]
IBM Takes University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to the Cloud
Armonk, NY, USA – 24 Jun 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee selected IBM software and hardware to automate and consolidate its data center operations to enable a cloud-based service for delivering SAP®-based courses to students. The school switched its system from […]
Sharing wisdom, teacher to teacher
MIT math instructors have developed a tool to help educators get to ‘best practices’ and preserve them for posterity. SOURCE: MITRead the Article
Mobile learning technology gets a boost from eXact learning solutions
27-Jun-2011 » Training Press Releases » eXact learning solutions presented the new Android version of its ‘eXact Mobile’ solution – which is also available for the Blackberry, iPad and iPhone device series – at the mLearnCon 2011 conference in San Jose, California, 21st and 22nd June.SOURCE: Training Press ReleaseRead the Press Release
mLearnCon News and Updates
It’s been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple created. Many of these companies haven’t yet shipped the tablets they’ve announced. Still, a critical mass of major iPad alternatives are […]
Review: 5 eBook readers for less than $175
When Amazon.com’s ground-breaking Kindle eBook reader came out in 2007, it cost $399. Now, some eReaders, including the most recent Kindle entry, can be had for just north of $100.SOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic Media
He will direct MIT’s influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.SOURCE: MITRead the Full Article
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