Pay attention, students: Blackboard is watching you
Carter, C. (2009) Tech helps students adopt good study habits eCampus News, Sept 2
Well, up to a point...Extract from article:
Purdue University is using educational...
Schools get help in using Web 2.0 tools
Stansbury, M. (2009) Schools get help in using Web 2.0 tools eSchool News, Sept 2
This article discusses two recent papers from the the Consortium...
Web 2.0 in Education: Policy, Practice and Progress
Bosco, J. (2009) Web 2.0 in Education: Policy, Practice and Progress The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Washington, DC
One of two papers recently published...
European wiki on virtual campuses – globally
Re.ViCa is a project funded by the European Commission. It is doing a review of Virtual Campuses all over Europe. As part of this...
Virtual 3-D lab aims to stimulate learning
Prabhu, M. (2009) Virtual 3-D lab aims to stimulate learning eSchool News, Aug 24
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Students at a Baltimore County high school this...
7 things you should know about cloud computing
Kurkowski, P. (2009) 7 things you should know about cloud computing EDUCAUSE, Aug 3
A downloadable, two-page PDF introduction to cloud computing.
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Cloud computing is the...
Educause’s Top Ten Issues in IT
Agee, A. et al. (2009) Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009 Educause Review, Vol. 44, No. 3
Based on a survey of 554 (responding) EDUCAUSE members, mainly...
Court rules against Blackboard in patent fight
Carter, D. (2009) Court rules against Blackboard in patent fight eSchool News, July 30
In case you missed this great news for e-learning over the...
Open source software for administrative systems
'While the open source movement has taken off in course management systems, with Moodle and Sakai as alternatives to the dominant Blackboard, the administrative...
Cell phones used to deliver course content
'U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools and colleges should deliver course content to the cell phones that students use to talk and text...