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Higher Ed Sees Dramatic Ramp-Up of Unified Communications Plans
Two-thirds of institutions of higher education institutions--66 percent--have prepared a business case or strategic plan for implementing unified communications (UC), citing reduced operating costs and distance learning as the top benefits. That's up from 41 percent in 2009, according to new research released this week. 2010-03-09 02:00pm
Moodlerooms and DubMeNow Developing Mobile Campus Apps
Two companies are teaming up to create mobile applications for education. Moodlerooms, which develops education programs that run on the open source course management system Moodle, will be working with DubMeNow, which creates mobile software. 2010-03-09 02:00pm
U Sao Paulo Upgrades Massive Wireless Network
One of the largest public universities in Brazil is beefing up its wireless infrastructure. The network at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil hosts 41,000 computers and thousands of other devices in use by 80,000 students and 6,000 faculty members on seven campuses. 2010-03-09 12:00pm
Quantrix Builds Higher Ed Models To Analyze Student Enrollment
Quantrix, which sells modeling and analysis tools for a number of industries, recently launched Enrollment Insights for higher education. This set of customizable planning models provides numeric information about student enrollment for use in budgeting and strategic planning. 2010-03-09 12:00pm
PRODing around Curriculum Design - what happened to content packaging?
This is part of a post that’s been sitting on my desktop for sometime, however I’ve been spurned onto publishing it by the recent posts from my colleague John Robertson about the use of IMS Content Packaging and QTI in the current UK OER programme. Part of the support function we at CETIS offer to a [...] 2010-03-09 08:01am
Virtual guided tour of state of Virginia
 Travel with a group of hardy teachers, the Virginia Trekkers, as they explore this beautiful state. Virtually visit areas of geological and historical significance across the five regions Appalachian Plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont Region, and the Coastal2010-03-09 06:00am
Dev8D: where were the women? A response.
I’m writing this in response to MShaw’s post on DevCSI asking why there were so few women at Dev8D. I’m answering over here rather than over there because this is something I’ve been pondering for a while. And, as my colleague John Robertson pointed out on twitter: Appropriate for International Woman’s Day? discussion on [...] 2010-03-09 05:00am
cetisdle - presentations now online
Over the past year or so we’ve been doing a lot of thinking and work around what we’ve now come round to calling distributed learning environments. Essentially, ways that you can extend current VLE functionality without having to change/upgrade your VLE. Concurrently it also seems that every HE institution in the country is [...] 2010-03-09 05:00am
Iron Mountain Acquires Mimosa
Iron Mountain, best known for providing off-premises backup of enterprise data, said Monday it has acquired e-mail and SharePoint archiving solutions provider Mimosa Systems for $112 million. 2010-03-08 09:00pm
Mississippi State Students Design Android Phone Games
A dozen students in Mississippi are working with a cellular carrier to develop smartphone games that will eventually end up in the Google Android Market. The students, enrolled in a game design class at Mississippi State University, are working with Cellular South to create computer games for the HTC Hero. 2010-03-08 07:00pm
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