Starting such programs can mean significant upfront costs for technology, training, and instructional designers, said speakers at a Sloan Consortium meeting.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
Online Education May Not Be the Route to Big Bucks for Colleges
31 March 2011
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Google Picks Kansas City for Its Fast Network
31 March 2011Google has announced that Kansas City, KS will be the inaugural site for its “Fiber for Communities” program, which it says will be able to deliver Internet access more than 100 times faster than the home broadband connections provided by phone and cable companies across the country.
[Source: New York Times]
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New clicker technology allows a different look at student answers
31 March 2011The anonymity of lecture hall response systems has taken the awkwardness out of sensitive questions in Timothy Loving’s Introduction to Family Relationships course, and a new clicker software will let the University of Texas associate professor have a more personal exchange with his students.
Loving will use the latest version of the i>clicker response system to analyze student answers by political affiliation, race, gender, and other demographics.
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Amazon’s music cloud: How it beat Google and Apple – Mar. 29, 2011
29 March 2011Amazon on Tuesday launched the Amazon Cloud Drive, an Internet service that lets customers store music and other digital files on the company’s servers and access them on computers, smartphones and other devices.
Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) will give customers 5GB of Cloud Drive storage for free, and if users buy an MP3 album through Amazon, they’ll be upgraded to 20GB of cloud storage for a year. The Cloud Player works on PCs, Macs and Android devices.
via Amazon’s music cloud: How it beat Google and Apple – Mar. 29, 2011.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Scrumblr – Simple Online Sticky Note Sharing
29 March 2011Scrumblr is a new site that provides an online space to create and share sticky notes with a group.
via Free Technology for Teachers: Scrumblr – Simple Online Sticky Note Sharing.
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Jing
29 March 2011Jing is a screencasting computer program launched in 2007 as Jing Project by the TechSmith Corporation.
- Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor.
- Share it instantly via web, email, IM, Twitter or your blog.
- Simple and free, Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations.
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Disco: Group Texting App from Google
28 March 2011Google has made a foray into the group messaging space recently with Disco, a new iPhone app and website.
[Source: TechCrunch]
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Color – The next killer app?
25 March 2011Color is a free mobile photo and video sharing application that shows you not only the photos you have recorded but photos that were recorded around you while you were there. Released on March 23, 2011, it only took 23 hours to become the number-two social networking app on iTunes, after Facebook, and it’s getting a lot of buzz.
But “don’t use the app alone.” That’s the advice of Color founder Bill Nguyen, who explains that color is not about photo sharing. “It’s a new way to build spontaneous social networks — and collect massive amounts of data about what people are doing and where they’re doing it — without collecting any personally identifiable information like last names, addresses, or even passwords.”
Requirements:
iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. iOS 4.1 or later.
Android 2.2 and up
Color to eventually expand to BlackBerry and Windows phones by the end of the 2011.
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A Scorecard for Comparing Online Programs
24 March 2011Sloan Consortium has developed standardized metrics for assessing the quality of online programs.
[Source: Inside Higher Ed]
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Wow Your iPad Readers — Blog — WordPress.com
24 March 2011With the launch of Apple’s iPad we have seen the future of computing and it is touch. Nothing matches the visceral feel of navigating your digital world with your hands. The past four months we’ve been working closely with Onswipe to bring your iPad visitors our vision of what a blog can look like re-imagined for a touch experience.
Our iPad-optimized view is app-like in its functionality, but pure HTML5 goodness on the backend: it supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad. Like when we launched our smartphone-optimized WP-Touch integration in 2009 (now responsible for over 150 million page views a month) this is immediately available and active on the over 18 million blogs on WordPress.com.
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