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 [...]

Online teaching improves classroom teaching

Kolowich, S. (2009) Learning from online Inside Higher Education, December 7

Well, duh! I’m sure that anyone with instructional design experience who has worked with classroom teachers to develop online courses has heard that this also ends up in improving their classroom teaching as well. However, this is now being formally researched at Purdue [...]

Tweeting in class

Young, J. (2009) Teaching with Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart Chronicle of Higher Education, November 22

Interesting article on use of Twitter and Hotseat for providing backchat during lecture classes at Purdue University. Also includes a digital video interview with one of the professors using Twitter.

Again, an excellent example of using [...]

Social networking in the classroom

McCrea, B. (2009) Purdue U brings social networking to the classroom Campus Technology, November 18

A report on how Purdue University enables students to tweet their lecturers in class, as well as comment to other students, while the instructor is teaching.

I have absolutely no comment on this – at least for the moment.

Using LMSs to identify 'at-risk' students

Kolowich, S. (2009) The new diagnostics, Inside Higher Education, September 30

An article about three institutions, Rio Salado Community College, Purdue University, and Capella University, using data from their learning management systems to flag students ‘at risk’ of dropping out, as early as one or two weeks into a course.

See also: http://www.tonybates.ca/2009/10/28/lms-wars-e-learnings-third-phase/