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Last Updated On: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:25:15 MDT Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:25:15 MDT en http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Texas-A-Ms-Restructuring/25219/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29 One university's decision to close its central distance-education office has stirred a national Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:34:18 MDT http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Publications/Briefs/Documents/rebalancing_06212010.pdf A new report from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Rebalancing the Mission: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:12:59 MDT http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2010/06/24/7-tips-for-distance-learning.html Distance learning is a really big thing these days: At any given time, more than 2.5 million student Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:39:21 MDT http://www.open-simulator.com/2010/06/sl-vs-webex-the-myth-of-second-life-as-a-platform-for-education-update-2/ Does really immersion provide an advantage for online meetings? Is immersion something t Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:24:44 MDT http://lpenley.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/reporting-on-private-sector-success/ Typically only the most egregious circumstances make the headlines. The Cinncinati Enquirer posted a Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:43:36 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/funding/ed-tech-grant-program-aims-to-boost-college-readiness/ Six months after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pumped $3.6 million into a national certifica Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:28:50 MDT http://www.mobl21.com/blog/28/cost-effective-developments-that-enable-mobile-learning/ When we talk about advanced technologies and implementing new methods of learning, one of the first Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:16:20 MDT http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-28-IHE-remedial-classes-how-long28_jST_N.htm#125 A governance dispute between trustees and the faculty at City College of San Francisco has everyone Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:29:28 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/28/textbook Bill passed by Pennsylvania Senate decried as attack on academic freedom for requiring professors to Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:10:10 MDT http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/21/students-create-vide.html Students at the Rochester Institute of Technology created an open, free video chat program for deaf Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:22:01 MDT http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Spotlight/25-Free-Software-Programs-Worth-the-Download-691265/?kc=EWKNLEDP06252010A Looking to get the most out of your computer, but dont want to spend the money on a bunch of new Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:16:42 MDT http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=HENA&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=37257 Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held the Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:14:08 MDT http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/summer132/parscal_riemer132.html Student demand for online education requires colleges and universities to rapidly expand the number Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:11:12 MDT http://elearningroadtrip.typepad.com/elearning_roadtrip/2010/06/thinking-about-mobile-learning-ask-yourself-these-questions.html Ellen Wagner shares a series of questions that she has been asking her clients over the years whenev Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:09:00 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Senators-Vow-to-Crack-Down-on/66058/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Congress is compelled to do something to stop those that are profiting from the financial-aid system Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:04:13 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/iphone-4-paves-the-way-for-mobile-video-conferencing/ Apples new iPhone 4 features a mobile video conferencing application that could increase collabor Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:01:05 MDT http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no2/erickson_0610.htm Adults over age 50 are increasingly pursuing online instructional modalities of higher education cou Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:52:45 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Center-Releases-New-Guide-to/25038/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Two professors at American University provide direction on using copyrighted work in communications Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:46:34 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/06/23/duke-u-school-of-medicine-expands-virtual-game-use-for-future-doctors.aspx The Duke University School of Medicine is expanding its efforts to train future doctors in clinical Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:42:22 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/23/futures A major libraries association makes some bold predictions about the future of higher education. Some Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:36:41 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/23/essays Turnitin, dominant player in detection software, starts to sign up colleges to screen application es Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:31:18 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Online-Learning-May-Slightly/24963/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Live instruction, by comparison, benefits Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving stud Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:09:13 MDT http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/06/21/summit-mobile-computing-is-educations-future/ Speakers at a recent education technology industry summit had a key piece of advice for the company Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:06:23 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/How-are-you-going-to-grade/24935/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en Several of us at ProfHacker incorporate blogs into our pedagogy, and we have written on a range of c Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:52:09 MDT http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&article=139-1 What are the mistakes that even an experienced online trainer and educator can make? Pat Wagne Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:50:07 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/For-Robert-Morris-U-the/65978/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en The former accounting school has been successful in building a base of four-year students, but now i Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:38:44 MDT http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/new-york-times-really-claiming-all-paid-rss-readers-infringe-its-copyright The Interwebs are up in arms, again. This time, the kerfuffle is over a DMCA notice, submitted by Th Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:19:48 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Wal-Mart-U-a-Good/65933/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en There might have been a Wal-Mart University. As the world's largest retailer weighed its option Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:10:09 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/events/conferences/how-colleges-can-drive-traffic-to-their-web-sites/ Marketing expert tells higher-ed IT officials about her process for developing a loyal following onl Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:49:39 MDT http://www.smucoxpbs.com/web/guest/faculty-research/-/blogs/what-it-means-to-be-an-avatar:-a-study-of-second-life?_33_redirect=/web/guest/faculty-research New research by Ulrike Schultze of SMU Cox delves into what is most fundamental to the avatar-self r Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:35:24 MDT http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/virtualization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225700333&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News A Nielsen study shows Internet users spent an average of more than 6 hours a month on sites such as Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:32:20 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Student-Smartphone-Use/24876/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Smartphone use among college students has almost doubled since early last year, a study by a researc Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:21:46 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/ed-looks-to-crack-down-on-misleading-college-recruiting/ Federal rules would curb aggressive recruiting practices that enroll unqualified students in c Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:24:14 MDT http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/06/16/03games.h03.html?cmp=clp-edweek Quest to Learn is a New York City charter school for grades 6-12 centered around digital-game-inspir Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:21:57 MDT http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/16/lms-a-quick-swot-analysis/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Twitter The LMS has been a hot discussion topic for some time now. There have been posts discussing its surv Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:12:14 MDT http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/17/rapid-authoring-tools-for-creating-mlearning-2/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Twitter After a few years of hype, mobile learning has now started flourishing; the advent of new generation Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:10:14 MDT http://hechingered.org/content/earn-an-online-degree-at-icollege_982/ Minnesotas two-term governor Tim Pawlenty challenged the status quo of higher education when he a Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:06:31 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Veterans-Use-Benefits-of-New/65914/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en For-profit colleges and community colleges were the most popular choices of students who used benefi Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:28:35 MDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/10/AR2010061005522.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead Under enormous pressure, the nation's public schools are spending millions of dollars each year Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:01:50 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/06/15/blackboard-brings-mobile-learn-to-smart-phones.aspx Following the release in April of Mobile Learn for Apple's iPad, Blackboard has released the mo Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:54:57 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Wal-Mart-U-a-Good/65933/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en As the world's largest retailer weighed its options for making a big splash in education, execu Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:53:47 MDT http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10163/1065130-298.stm Leaders of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities want more of their students to enroll in Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:49:56 MDT http://www.alligator.org/opinion/columns/article_e3836fda-72b4-11df-a35a-001cc4c03286.html A student blogger from the University of Florida urges her fellow classmates to maintain their integ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:42:50 MDT http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/06/16/03networking.h03.html Educators are integrating Facebook, Ning, and other sites into K-12 life despite concerns about priv Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:39:54 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/For-Profit-Colleges-Projected/65942/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en For-profit universities will have 42 percent of the adult-undergraduate market by 2019, nearly doubl Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:33:18 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Indiana-Forms-Branch-of/24760/ Indiana will create a new branch of a national online institution, Western Governors University, und Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:31 MDT http://millennialmarketing.com/2010/06/millennials-speak-out-on-education/ According to Pew, just 31% of Millennials have no plans to go to college, with the rest either in co Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:38:09 MDT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/education/10285568.stm Universities must find more flexible and cheaper ways to teach, the government has said. Expanding c Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:59:52 MDT http://chea.org/ia/IA_2010.06.10.html Judith Eaton, the head of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation defends accrediting agencie Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:49:44 MDT http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/using-mp3s-as-a-teaching-tool-for-college-english-classes/ My recent foray into using MP3s to teach college level English classes came out of my need to reach Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:44:33 MDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061304605.html?hpid=topnews Congress and the Obama administration are concerned. For-profit schools may be offering an education Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:37:25 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Student-Services-in-Outside/65908/ Serving students is big business. Third-party vendors sell orientation sessions, curricula for first Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:35:01 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/14/christian The question facing universities looking to compete in the booming market for online higher educatio Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:31:29 MDT http://www.2elearning.com/lead-news/article/when-mobility-meets-learning.html Here are questions to ask before considering whether to 'go mobile. While the use of mobile de Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:28:50 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blind-Students-Get-Free-Access/24722/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Texts for visually impaired college students are hard to come by. But a new agreement between Cambri Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:56:33 MDT http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/11/10-must-have-features-in-a-mobile-lms/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Twitter There is a need to look at porting some critical learner and administrator side LMS functions to mob Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:34:40 MDT http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100608/huberty-on-ipad/ Apples (AAPL) iPad may prove to be the fastest ramping mobile Internet device ever, and if not th Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:36:03 MDT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html What we gain and lose by being connected all the time. Source: NY Times Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:58:32 MDT http://www.coloradodaily.com/cu-boulder/ci_15233497#axzz0qB5bP5cV The stories of several adults who are finding this to be a good time to return to the University of Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:38:50 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean/wal_mart_university_really Some good questions and knee-jerk reactions about Wal-Mart's partnership with American Public U Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:34:26 MDT http://edudemic.com/2010/06/watch-the-amazing-way-a-7th-grader-spends-her-school-day-online-video/ Integrating technology with education is not easy. In fact, finding a solution that marries the two Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:17:01 MDT http://edudemic.com/2010/06/why-buy-textbooks-new-service-lets-students-rent-books/ Why buy an expensive textbook when you could rent it for a lot less? Selling back books at school bo Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:01:31 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blackboards-Next-Generation/24539/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en The course-management system promises greater ease of use and new features for social learning. Sour Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:53:43 MDT http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/05/20/kill-accessibility/ Accessibility efforts are failing (according to the author). How do we bring web accessibility back Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:28:41 MDT http://uweekly.com/newsmag/05-19-2010/14592/are-teachers-becoming-obsolete Top tier schools like The London School of Economics, MIT and Yale embrace the advent of self-educat Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:23:18 MDT http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=123-1 As one of the hottest web 2.0 technologies, Twitter has recently flourished in its number of regist Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:19:03 MDT http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&article=137-1 Too many people subscribe to the idea that better design takes too long. This, if true, would Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:15:16 MDT http://distance-education.suite101.com/article.cfm/how-to-do-well-in-an-online-class-in-distance-education-courses Three prime areas are discussed in helping an adult learner develop an understanding of their weakne Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:10:48 MDT http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20005816-12.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+webware+%28Webware.com%29 Review of Skype's new feature allowing group video calls. There are problems with the beta ver Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:58:56 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/In-Student-Retention-Attitude/65756/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en A paper presented at the Association for Institutional Research asserts that students' enrollme Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:48:05 MDT http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370598 Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle, and that, says author Nicholas Carr, is what you& Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:43:49 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wal-Mart-Employees-Get-New/24504/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Workers will get a discounted education from the American Public University System under a deal anno Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:51:49 MDT http://www.abiresearch.com/press/1661-27%25+of+US+Mobile+Web+Users+Have+Clicked+Mobile+Ads A consumer survey conducted by ABI Research in February, 2010 has found that 27% of mobile phone use Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:36:20 MDT http://mashable.com/2010/06/02/ap-social-media-guidelines/ The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:26:48 MDT http://edreformer.com/2010/06/edu-triumvirate-mobile-context-adaptive-curriculum/ We asked two e-learning and blended learning experts to answer ten questions about the future and th Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:25:07 MDT http://gov.2elearning.com/lead-news/article/the-role-of-social-networking-in-advanced-blended-learning.html The military does a remarkable job of mainlining and updating course material. However, the pace of Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:10:12 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/ Big Data comes to the humanities, and it could bring sweeping changes in how people "read" Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:53:07 MDT http://www.northjersey.com/news/94681594_Online_learning__a_new_er__path_to_the_same_goal.html So if further education is the goal, but time and money are the hurdles, what's the answer? A c Sat, 29 May 2010 22:00:41 MDT http://googleforstudents.blogspot.com/2010/05/waving-at-school.html When we heard that Dan Burger was using Google Wave with his class at Vanderbilt, we asked him to wr Sat, 29 May 2010 21:52:38 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/tech-savvy-university-grows-mobile-learning-with-1-8m-award/ Abilene Christian University, among the leading users of mobile technology in higher education, will Sat, 29 May 2010 21:50:32 MDT http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20006110-92.html?part=rss First, there were 3D TVs. Next up: 3D PCs trickle out in 2010 and then ramp in 2011 and 2012, accord Thu, 27 May 2010 22:19:12 MDT http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/trends-in-higher-education/college-students-unplugged-24-hours-without-media-brings-feelings-of-boredom-isolation-anxiety/ College students who abstained from using media for 24 hours describe their feelings in terms more c Thu, 27 May 2010 22:16:10 MDT http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/degree-in-3/?hp In a Times Op-Ed piece, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, the president emeritus of George Washington Unive Thu, 27 May 2010 22:14:15 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/2-Regional-Public-Universities/65657/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Career colleges face competition from institutions like UMass at Lowell and SUNY at Delhi, whose onl Thu, 27 May 2010 21:57:59 MDT http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kids_more_likely_to_own_a_cellphone_than_a_book_study_finds.php As technology becomes more a part of our day-to-day lives, some are worried that it is stunting the Thu, 27 May 2010 21:54:51 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/NCAA-Bars-Online-Course/24309/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en The NCAA announced yesterday that Division I-bound high-school athletes may not use online course cr Wed, 26 May 2010 14:33:27 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/05/26/the-ed-tech-quarterback.aspx In the design of learning spaces, one key member of of the planning team is often not formally ident Wed, 26 May 2010 12:04:03 MDT http://ht.ly/1Q7fD USA Today held discussions with five "non-traditional" students representing different bac Wed, 26 May 2010 11:11:59 MDT http://www.crestonnewsadvertiser.com/articles/ara/2010/05/25/8047652466/index.xml Most college students are female - in 2006, the last year for which Census survey statistics are ava Wed, 26 May 2010 10:00:14 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/26/kaplan Agreement gives displaced community college students option of taking courses online with for-profit Wed, 26 May 2010 09:15:26 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Adjunct-Group-Begins-a-Push/65663/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en The New Faculty Majority is urging out-of-work adjuncts to apply for the benefits between academic t Mon, 24 May 2010 21:38:40 MDT http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no1/linardopoulos_0310.pdf The increased availability of online coursework in higher education has prompted a number of researc Sun, 23 May 2010 21:37:48 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Cash-for-Clicks-College/24176/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Students whose videos on why they deserve a scholarship are most popular win. A problem, though, may Sun, 23 May 2010 21:01:24 MDT http://edreformer.com/2010/05/opening-up-frogs-with-an-apple/ edViewsOpening Up Frogs with an Appleby Douglas CretsMay 20, 2010A group of middle school stude Sun, 23 May 2010 09:41:25 MDT http://www.examiner.com/x-13755-Raleigh-City-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m5d18-Older-students-returning-to-college-find-surprising-acceptance-but--challenges-too Following nationwide trends, enrollments of students aged 25 and older are growing at North Carolina Sun, 23 May 2010 09:34:57 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/19/alaska University of Alaska's attempt to use technology to curb textbook costs is foiled by geography. Sun, 23 May 2010 09:27:50 MDT http://www.jimfongonline.com/2010/05/marketing-implications-of-university-of.html?spref=fb Jim Fong takes a marketing point-of-view to ponder the closure of the UT TeleCampus. Fong questions Tue, 18 May 2010 21:21:58 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/are-video-games-the-answer-to-college-counseling-shortage/ USC researchers design a game for first-generation college applicants with limited access to profess Tue, 18 May 2010 21:14:24 MDT http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/may2010/bs20100517_429837.htm Online education is gaining ground over the brick-and-mortar variety. Colleges that fail to adapt wi Tue, 18 May 2010 21:11:54 MDT http://www.cca-now.com/2010/05/why-are-generalizations-made-about-for.html The question is asked in a larger rebuttal to Frontline's "College, Inc.". The piece Tue, 18 May 2010 21:07:12 MDT http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/7-things-you-got-wrong-about-millennials/ The Millennial market is one of, if not the most important consumer segments to marketers right now. Tue, 18 May 2010 21:04:28 MDT http://edudemic.com/2010/05/new-study-yes-professors-are-online-and-teaching-with-social-media/ Its apparently a common misconception that professors are not willing to embrace social media. Ac Tue, 18 May 2010 20:24:25 MDT http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/05/17/app-watch-managing-classes-on-the-ipad/ A new iPad app that lets students and teachers manage their classes. The app lists courses, syllabus Tue, 18 May 2010 20:05:33 MDT http://www.quickanded.com/2010/05/we-need-a-ged-for-college-students.html Almost 27 million Americans, 13.6% of all adults, are college dropouts. To put that in perspective, Tue, 18 May 2010 12:34:37 MDT http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/17/why-universities-should-hate-the-ipad/ Next fall, during opening weekend, students will once again file into university bookstores to purch Tue, 18 May 2010 12:32:17 MDT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/technology/personaltech/14talk.html For many Americans, cellphones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connec Sun, 16 May 2010 22:16:39 MDT http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100504006616&newsLang=en UMassOnline, the online learning division of the University of Massachusetts, today announced that f Sun, 16 May 2010 21:45:09 MDT http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6035061/k.43F1/Digital_Media__Learning_Competition.htm?utm_source=pubaff&utm_medium=email&utm_content=dml_comp&utm_campaign=2010-05-12_eannc Ten winners of the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition were announced. Funded by the Jo Sun, 16 May 2010 21:37:43 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Colleges-Freaking-Out-Over/23936/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en An official Facebook page is like a garden. Colleges have invested effort and money tending their pa Sun, 16 May 2010 21:28:03 MDT http://pareonline.net/pdf/v15n5.pdf Since its inception in 1999, the RateMyProfessors.com (RMP.com) website has grown in popularity and Sun, 16 May 2010 21:26:24 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/12/tech A CIO's blog post prompts reflections on why the technology industry no longer puts academe on Sun, 16 May 2010 21:18:32 MDT http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-11-remedial-college_N.htm Nationwide, about a third of first-year students in 2007-08 had taken at least one remedial course, Sun, 16 May 2010 21:14:43 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/12/analytics Unusual coalition of college leaders and policy makers promotes effort aimed at stimulating change i Sun, 16 May 2010 21:10:40 MDT http://vimeo.com/11721474 Since the mid-1980s, the costs of higher education in America have steadily shifted from the taxpaye Fri, 14 May 2010 10:02:08 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/College-Inc/23850/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en What's good for the for-profit goose is good for the nonprofit gander, writes Kevin Carey Tue, 11 May 2010 08:52:21 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/California-Dreaming-Remaking/65446/?key=QG90dQJpZHRLZXFkeyFPL3cCbiAsKEJ%2FO3AVNi4abF1S Officials at the University of California system have proposed an expansion of online efforts in the Tue, 11 May 2010 08:27:08 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Using-Creative-Commons/23871/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Have you used Creative Commons licensed material in your courses, or shared your own work via CC-lic Mon, 10 May 2010 16:31:50 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/In-Crisis-U-of-California/65445/ Online education is booming, but not at elite universitiesat least not when it comes to courses f Mon, 10 May 2010 10:00:39 MDT http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring131/watson131.html With the assistance of the Internet and related technologies, students today have many more ways to Mon, 10 May 2010 09:18:47 MDT http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/android-outselling-iphone/ Smartphones carrying Googles Android operating system outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of Mon, 10 May 2010 08:54:44 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/after-ballyhooed-debut-some-schools-see-problems-with-ipad/ The euphoria that greeted the Apple iPad on college campuses has waned somewhat in recent weeks, as Sun, 09 May 2010 19:46:59 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Black-Students-Experience-More/23616/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A new study has found that black students experience more online racial discrimination and generally Sun, 09 May 2010 19:40:28 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/If-Libraries-Remove-Computers/23600/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en If iPads and other new mobile computers catch on, libraries might not need to offer rooms full of co Sun, 09 May 2010 19:33:14 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/lots-of-technology-but-were-missing-the-point/ No matter how much technology we throw at our students, they will flounder if they do not know how t Sun, 09 May 2010 19:28:17 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/05/01/18-web-20-tools-for-instruction.aspx The long list of web 2.0 and social software toolsa confusing array of cute and unspellable names Sun, 09 May 2010 19:22:41 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-Law-Requires-Professo/65450/ Faculty members and administrators in Texas are speaking out about a recent state law that requires Sun, 09 May 2010 19:20:02 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/07/qt#226860 Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, has announced that he is ordering a study on "restrict Sun, 09 May 2010 19:03:44 MDT http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&article=135-1 I'm now a big fan of Twitter. Although I'm still not tweeting nor reading tweets, I think Sun, 09 May 2010 19:01:34 MDT http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/fairuse-economy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29 One study after another purports to chronicle how much intellectual property piracy hurts the econom Sat, 08 May 2010 09:16:26 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/College-Leaders-Debate-the/65271/ In a debate shortly to be posted on the web, Gail O. Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community Colleg Sat, 08 May 2010 09:10:56 MDT http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=136879&catid=188 Taking an online college course doesn't mean students have to give up the valuable lessons lear Sat, 08 May 2010 09:07:14 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/28/nroc Congress rejected idea of a new federal grant program, but a private effort is growing. Source: Insi Sat, 08 May 2010 08:57:07 MDT http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/04/28/11-Reasons-Advanced-Technology-Classrooms-Fail.aspx?Page=1 Over the last two decades, there have been few, if any, academic institutions that have not built ne Thu, 06 May 2010 15:31:11 MDT http://www.phoenix.edu/about_us/media_relations/university-of-phoenix-responds-to-frontline.html We created this site to share our official response to the FRONTLINE documentary and to address the Thu, 06 May 2010 15:17:28 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Financial-Affairs-TV/65393/?key=QGt1IwVra3cdYSNhfSZJeyZSaCUpKE8uPi9CY30abV5R The first, last, and most evocative scenes of a Frontline television documentary on for-profit highe Tue, 04 May 2010 20:53:53 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/04/socialmedia A new study reveals that nearly all faculty members use social media -- and most use it to teach. So Tue, 04 May 2010 20:40:10 MDT http://www.viralblog.com/social-media/five-most-essential-social-media-infographics/ Infographics are here to stay. Capturing lots of data and info in one image can be seen as a new tre Tue, 04 May 2010 13:27:13 MDT http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/26/popular-social-networking-sites-forbes-woman-time-facebook-twitter.html Facebook, the largest social networking tool in the world, is dominated by women.According to BrianS Tue, 04 May 2010 13:25:02 MDT http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/transfer/ Lost in the shuffle of university admission and graduation rates is a reality that those statistics Tue, 04 May 2010 13:17:00 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/04/fipse Its budget stretched to breaking point by earmarks, postsecondary innovation office now faces Educat Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:32 MDT http://make-money-1.com/higher-education-university/7-ways-to-ensure-success-with-an-online-education-degree/ The ability to obtain an online education degree has opened the educational doors for many students Sun, 02 May 2010 16:36:44 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/29/stanley Author of new book discusses the educational and political history of remediation at Berkeley. Sourc Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:44:05 MDT http://cacm.acm.org/news/87474-web-ifying-the-real-world/fulltext n the future, real life will be web-ified. A host of advanced tools and techniques conceived at the Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:33:16 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/survey-digital-natives-need-more-it-support/ Only four in 10 college students surveyed said they receive adequate support for education technolog Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:08:59 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/are-todays-students-addicted-to-social-media/ University of Maryland students who went 24 hours without TV, cell phones, MP3 players, and laptops Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:46:40 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Audio-Defining-Student/65259/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en The Education Department is refining a rule that requires for-profit colleges and others to prove th Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:39:43 MDT http://diyubook.com/2010/04/are-for-profits-peddling-subprime-education/ Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U, is asked to take another look at the pros and cons of for-profit hig Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:35:50 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/26/aacrao At meeting of admissions officers and registrars, strategies for keeping students enrolled. Source: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:56:23 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/13/kentucky-colleges-chunk-up-online-course-offerings.aspx Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) has begun offering courses online that run Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:50:17 MDT http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/mediatec/clo0510/index.php?startid=38#/40 Learning is ubiquitous and smart companies are using this fact to their advantage when they create a Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:47:32 MDT http://technofirstonline.com/?p=1441 Online learning is the new trend on the path of learning in this 21st century. The grim picture of ( Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:38:29 MDT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/education/21regents.html The New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a pilot program that wou Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:07:11 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Web-Site-Aims-for-Searchable/23417/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en The owner of a new Web site wants his search engine to become an easy way to comb through the open c Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:32:41 MDT http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/GettingOurValuesaroundCopyrigh/202337 Copyright is essential to a diverse and rich culture. Yet the platformthe technologythrough wh Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:30:01 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/22/u-cincinnati-and-ohiolink-research-digital-textbook-adoption.aspx An Ohio research project is investigating just how students would prefer to get the text for their c Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:17:46 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/22/usc On the heels of successful expansion of master's in teaching on the Web, Southern California so Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:40:00 MDT http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/social-media-ban-backfire/ Restricting access to information is fighting the force of a global movement towards greater partici Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:28:44 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/21/assessing-student-work-in-the-open-educational-resources-era.aspx The increased availability and use of open educational resources (OER) may complicate assessment, bu Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:53:39 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Educators-Balk-at/65160/?key=TmwlIQc7aydPMCMxeCtDeCQGaXUpKRl%2FOSVEYCoaYFxQ For several years, the Higher Learning Commission has required all of its accredited members to be a Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:02:03 MDT http://media.www.thejambar.com/media/storage/paper324/news/2010/04/06/News/Web-Cheating.Accessible.Not.Advisable-3900448.shtml A new service is available. Send a syllabus, grade level and get a quote. If a price is negotiated, Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:46:03 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/15/languages Middlebury's new language instruction venture, in partnership with a for-profit company, is tur Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:34:37 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/14/developmental Six states enter project to reform developmental education at community colleges by altering state p Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:21:56 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/14/hosein The University of Washington's revamped master's program in digital media attempts to answ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:13:10 MDT http://chronicle.com/article/How-Do-You-Make-America-the/65012/#top Tennessee, for example, has devised new measures to tie its financial support for public colleges to Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:26:19 MDT http://ow.ly/1ykNt Students entering college either have it or they dontand which side of the digital divide they Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:01:05 MDT http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whats_next_for_mobile_apps.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29 n this post we analyze some use cases for DASH7, which also point to where the Mobile Web is heading Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:38 MDT http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&article=67-1 Teaching writing skills is not as simple as putting pen to paper. A variety of technology can help s Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:01:58 MDT http://www.dailytexanonline.com/content/tough-times-ut-should-share Im an only child, and from what I hear, you people who have siblings actually had to share your s Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:48:13 MDT http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teens-with-adhd-benefiting-from-online-education-89897612.html High school students who struggle with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) may only be a Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:28:58 MDT http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Agenda-for-Open-Online-Courses/22496/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Although Obama's plan to allocate $500-million for online courses didn't make it into the Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:46:47 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/2010/04/12/professors-not-rotfl-at-students-text-language/ College professors are anything but LOL at their students recent writing habits, reports the San Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:16:41 MDT http://elearningroadtrip.typepad.com/elearning_roadtrip/2010/04/-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas.html On her blog, Ellen Wagner ponders the recent decision to end the UT TeleCampus. Her take: "UT Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:25:30 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/questions_about_the_ipad Spent this weekend "moving in" to my iPad. Been thinking about what to say, which made me Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:57:03 MDT http://burnafterreading.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/veterans-lobby-for.php House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner, D-Calif., introduced an amendment to the Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:10:21 MDT http://www.ecampusnews.com/2010/04/07/could-net-neutrality-ruling-hinder-online-education/ federal court threw the future of internet regulations and U.S. broadband expansion plans into doubt Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:47:16 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/07/eportfolios-finally.aspx ePortfolios have been used widely in recent years for institutional assessment, but now academic ePo Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:30:42 MDT http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/07/moving-to-an-open-source-lms-3-stories.aspx With open source learning management systems offering an increasingly rich slate of features and add Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:17:43 MDT http://ow.ly/1v4tM Virtual-TA, a service of a company called EduMetry Inc.,relieves professors and teaching assistants Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:10:00 MDT http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/farewell_keyboard_generation_i_will_grow_up_on_touchscreens.php The analysts at Gartner must have been fairly impressed with the Apple iPad because their latest res Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:28:34 MDT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/education/09sfcollege.html?scp=9&sq=california&st=cse As universities limit admissions, community colleges are picking up extra students. This is having Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:03:03 MDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/09/telecampus University system says separate entity has done its job by seeding online programs at UT campuses. B Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:01:57 MDT http://www.wcet.info/2.0/index.php?q=node/279 2007 US eLearning Learning Market Tops $13 Billion Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:19:19 MST