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Will banning laptops in class work?

de Vise, D. (2010) Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls Washington Post March 9

An article about instructors who have banned the use of laptops in class, and why. I liked the comments by Professor Vaidhyanathan:

“If students don’t want to pay attention, the laptop is the least of your problems,” [...]

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CNN Opinion

21st Century Scholar discusses Bill Tierney’s CNN Opinion piece. Below you’ll find an excerpt from the piece entitled “Why Subsidize Wealthy College Kids?” which ran yesterday on CNN.com. Randy Clemens provides commentary. The Cost of Public Goods by Randy Clemens Yesterday Bill published at CNN.com an op-ed piece about college tuition. The text generated a considerable amount of comments — [...]
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In Denial: Reforming the University

by Bill Tierney Last week lots of people protested in California (although the protests were much smaller than I had anticipated).  The protesters are rightly angry at Sacramento.  People are also angry with their administrations.  Mark Yudof, head of the UC, and Charlie Reed, Yudof’s CSU counterpart, have not been the most eloquent of spokesmen.  But [...]
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University of South Carolina Selects SunGard Higher Education to Support Transformation of Business Processes, Information Tools and Digital Resources

The University of South Carolina (USC) has selected SunGard Higher Education to provide a comprehensive suite of solutions and services to support a far-reaching transformation of business processes, information tools and digital resources for the 209-year old University.

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Lecture Capture Part 3: Looking for scalable entry-level options

A further look at the tech behind some of the big Lecture Capture apps, and their entry-level options and scalability. For the last few weeks, I’ve been learning a bit about today’s lecture capture systems. This week I take a closer look at a few specific products. I am particularly interested in those vendors whose products and licensing [...]
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Can web 2.0 tools be legally used for education in Canada?

I raise this as a result of an interesting question from Ron Richard,of Meritus University, Canada. Ron asked Tony Vincent, who runs the excellent Learning in Hand site, and myself:

I have recently been researching some web-based resources for our faculty, who teach exclusively online, but who do not venture much outside the limited [...]

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WOM for Higher Ed

Fueled by the social web, Word of Mouth has become a billion dollar marketing engine. It even has its own professional organization — the Word of Mouth Marketing Association — with conferences, webinars, tutorials and a strong emphasis on ethics. If you haven’t visited the WOMMA website yet, it’s worth the time. It offers a number [...]
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Antioch University Selects SunGard Higher Education to Help Improve Performance, Accountability and the Learning Experience at its Five Campuses

Antioch University has chosen SunGard Higher Education to help improve its administrative efficiencies, student services and its overall educational experience by transforming institutional technology.
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What’s the Standard for Standards?

by Randy Clemens The reauthorization process is underway for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Last week, President Obama stated that future Title I funding may depend on states’ adoption or creation of math and reading standards to prepare students for college or employment. President Obama’s statement seems to allude to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a state-led initiative [...]
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Google’s Liquid Galaxy Project – too cool not to share!

Holy Holodeck! Imagine being able to virtually travel the earth in 3D. This is a prototype product at this stage, and it is not focused specifically on education, but man is it cool! Seriously though, there’s no doubt this type of tech could play a constructive part in the instructional process. Of course, this assumes that affordable commercial versions [...]