From computer mediated communication to web-based conferencing

McCrea, B. (2010) Getting face-to-face with distance education Campus Technology, February 17.

Another really interesting article. If online teaching has a ‘birth’, it was at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, when Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz started experimenting with collaborative learning for classroom based students but using the Internet (see Hiltz, [...]

A university using iPhones for teaching

McCrea, B. (2010) Pioneering mobile learning Campus Technology, January 27

If you can get past the really irritating Blackboard advertisement that blocks the whole content on all articles in the online version of Campus Technology, this article contains a useful account of how Abilene Christian University is using mobile learning for ‘real’ teaching. It has built [...]

Why business intelligence is important to HE institutions

Grush, M. (2010) BI Today: More than Just a Big, Fat Report Campus Technology, January 13

First a declaration of interest: my son is a senior designer/manager of business intelligence software for Oracle. However, I do believe that business intelligence software will become an increasingly important development in higher education, allowing all key decision-makers to analyse [...]

‘Globalizing’ schools in the USA through technology

Schaffhauser, D. (2010) U Arizona Team Seeks To Construct International Internet Classroom Campus Technology, January 6

Although this is an interesting and worthwhile project, I’m not sure how unique it is. I was under the impression that quite a number of schools in the USA were involved with schools in other countries in collaborative projects over [...]

5 Higher Ed Trends NOT to Watch in 2010

McCrea, B. (2009) 5 Higher Ed Trends to Watch in 2010 Campus Technology, December 9

Here is the first of the predictions for educational technology trends for 2010. If this is the way of the future, frankly I give up. We should just stop trying to use technology in higher education, and give the money to [...]