Designing campuses for e-learning

The Barber Learning Centre, UBC

McCrea, B. (2010) Remaking the College Campus Campus Technology, August 5

This article focuses on Glasgow Caledonian University’s Saltire Centre, the centerpiece of learning and student services. The Saltire Centre includes a 600-seat learning café, 400 computers, and 250 laptops that students and faculty can [...]

Campus Technology’s Annual Awards for 11 best technology innovations

Lloyd, M. and Raths, D. (2010) Campus Technology’s Innovators’Awards Campus Technology, August 3

Campus Technology chose from over 400 submissions to identify their 11 most innovative uses of technology, under six entry categories:

Leadership, Governance, and Policy (5% of entries); Teaching and Learning (31% of entries); Student Systems and Services; Administrative Systems; IT Infrastructure [...]

Barriers to change: two perspectives

Miller, B. (2010) The Course of Innovation: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education Washington DC: EducationSector

Batson, T. (2010) Innovation in Higher Education: It’s Not the Technology Campus Technology, June 2

There is an increasing awareness that for technology to be used effectively, there has to be changes in the way people work. This [...]

Mobile phone security on campus

McCrea, B. (2010) iPhones on Campus: Network Security Goes Mobile Campus Technology, May 27

An article more for IT specialists, it also provides a further update on Abilene Christian University’s project involving iPhones for all students.

See also ‘A University using iPhones for Teaching‘, More on the Mobile Campus’ and Vision for use of [...]

A good reason to give students iPads?

Nagel, D. (2010) IIT rolling out iPads to incoming class Campus Technology, May 18

The Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago is giving its first year (all graduate) intake iPads, mainly because they will be designing apps to support learning, and to develop other applications of the iPad. I wonder though if they will [...]