On June 28, 2007, Nokia was the top selling mobile-phone company in the world, people stopped working when they left their computers, Android phones didn’t exist, and high-powered executives were addicted to thumbing on their BlackBerrys.
The next day, Apple’s first iPhone went on sale.
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Posted by Charles Wachira
In an interview with Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder gives his take on technology and change in higher ed, MOOCs, certificates, and the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in higher ed, among other topics.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Amid a sputtering recovery that has highlighted the dearth of qualified workers in particular segments of the economy, many in the business community view free massive online open courses (MOOCs) as a key part of the solution. But others worry that students who rely only on these courses will miss out on the benefits that a campus environment can provide.
[Source: Knowledge @ Wharton]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) keynote presentation – Maps vs. Compasses: Liberal Education, Computers, and Living on the Edge of Chaos – by Gardner Campbell. The archive of live broadcast is available online.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Among the awards is a $1-million contribution to the MITx open-education project, focused on helping colleges that serve low-income students use the project’s offerings
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Guest blogger Doug Ward, an associate professor of journalism and the Budig Professor of Writing at the University of Kansas, describes his discover of using using and iPad and the app iAnnotate to combine written and oral commnets on student assignments.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
If African scholar Ruth Finnegan’s fund-raising campaign via a new site called Unglue.it is successful, the anthropologist’s classic and a definitive study on oral literature in Africa would be back in circulation.
UPDATE: 255 Ungluers have pledged $7,562 toward a $7,500 goal.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
The country needs to recognize and embrace a fundamental shift in scholarly communication toward open access, according to a government-commissioned report.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Three-year-old online institution Peer 2 Peer University allows students to learn together, at no charge, using materials found on the Web. The 33,000 registered students can earn badges to show what they’ve learned, although P2PU has no accreditation.
{Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
All 1,400 members of Seton Hall’s incoming class are getting new smartphones and free cell phone plans when they arrive at the Catholic university for orientation this summer. The school will use a data-gathering feature on the Nokia phones to survey students about how they are using the device in and out of the classroom.
[Source: nj.com]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
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