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 cafĂ©, 400 computers, and 250 laptops that students and faculty can [...]

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 [...]

Campus IT costs

McCrea, B. (2010) Campus IT under the knife Campus Technology March 4

The University of Illinois is facing a major budget shortfall, and the IT department is looking for cuts of 10 per cent in its budget which will amount to about $10-$20 million in savings. This article describes how it is going about [...]

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 [...]

Making campus IT more efficient

McCrea, B. (2010) Shifting campus IT priorities Campus Technology, February 4

This article looks at how Purdue University’s “renewed” strategic plan would focus on improving IT operations, including a reevaluation of the school’s IT governance structure and an expansion of its strategic sourcing efforts. This article is interesting because it focuses on how to [...]