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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 […]
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 […]
MIT math instructors have developed a tool to help educators get to ‘best practices’ and preserve them for posterity. SOURCE: MITRead the Article
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
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 […]
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
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
Some colleges make new efforts to discourage students from bringing vehicles to campus. Driving them away can be tough.SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article
As part of revitalizing itself as a Silicon Valley business school, Menlo College tackled its unsatisfactory campus technology support and infrastructure by hiring a new CIO. To address multiple technology issues affecting students, faculty, and staff as quickly as possible, the IT department mixed in-house staffing, outsourcing, and cloud sourcing. In less than two years, […]
By: John Hall, CEO and Co-Founder of Greenwood & Hall. He is also an Ed.D. candidate at the University of Southern California Many in higher education and particularly the for-profit sector were expecting the worst from the Department of Education as it handed down its final so-called gainful employment regulations. While far from ideal, several […]