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Boulder, CO; May 26, 2011 – Xyleme® Inc., the leading provider of 100% XML, open and standards-based learning content management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Pastiche™, the industry’s first application that allows organizations to offer a complete blended learning environment on a single tablet, quickly and cost-effectively.SOURCE: Xyleme® Inc. Read the Full Article
Professors think they are doing a better job with digital tools than their students believe is the case, survey suggests.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
DENVER — Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service offers no educational value, or are they just afraid of it?For W. Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, there is no question that fear of straying from the status quo has inhibited the development of Twitter as […]
DENVER — Meeting in the Mile High City, it was inevitable that the 2009 Educause Conference would contain a discussion about clouds.When Melissa Woo, director of cyberstructure research at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Michael Dieckmann, CIO of the University of West Florida, squared off in a debate over the merits of outsourcing […]
Blackboard’s patent on learning management system technologies has been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court ruled Monday in favor of Desire2Learn and invalidated some claims in patent No. 6,988,138, also known as the “Alcorn patent” or the “138 patent.” But the saga will continue. Read the Full […]
How have the events of the past year affected the IT issues of top concern to technology leaders in higher education today? Is higher education IT experiencing an evolution or a revolution? Have new issues emerged on the top-ten list? Are some issues less relevant? Read the Full Article Source: Educause
Microblogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital content—which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other media—on the Internet. Read the Full Article Source: Educause
IBM’s Watson will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing. Read the Full Article Source: MIT Technology Review
Ever get halfway to the grocery store and realize that you forgot your shopping list? Perhaps you missed an important doctor’s appointment because you just couldn’t remember when it was. Or worse – you forgot to meet your date for dinner. Whatever the case may be, you’re probably in need of some organization – and […]
