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In her spare time, away from her duties as a chemicals specialist in the Army, Angie Papple fires up her computer and writes an article about something close to her, like life in the military. Other times she’ll analyze a piece of software. Or she’ll churn out advice for travelers to Hawaii, where she lives, […]
Blackboard this week brought its Learning System CE and Learning System Vista in line with Learning System Enterprise edition, bringing the entire line to version 8.0. The company said the new releases represent a major advance toward its goal of unifying the codebase of its learning tools and infusing them with Web 2.0 technologies.Read the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Many people now create and share content on the Internet or blend services from various sites in their daily tasks, reflecting the medium’s clear evolution from a place for simply consuming Web sites.Read the Full Article
The Open University has promised to become more Mac and Linux friendly, reflecting the needs of its students. Read the Full Article
Software being developed at Intel makes it easy for people with no programming experience to combine data from different Web pages.Read the Full Article
The world has become increasingly “flat,†as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1 But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikierâ€: the […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said.Read the Full Article
Technology Review presents its annual list of the 10 most exciting technologies.Read the Full Article
Elluminate Bridge allows Moodle users to access real-time Elluminate Live! sessions, which incorporate the following dazzling features:Read the Full Article
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 2008 report focuses on the following topics;Grassroots VideoCollaboration WebsMobile BroadbandData MashupsCollective IntelligenceSocial Operating SystemsRead […]
