November 8, 2009
The technologies featured in the 2009 Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that represent what the Advisory Board considers likely timeframes for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, research, or creative applications. The first adoption horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream of institutions within the next year; the second, within two to three years; and the third, within four to five years.
- One Year or Less: Mobiles
- One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
- Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
- Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
- Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
- Four to Five Years: Smart Objects
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 6, 2009
A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project - Social Isolation and New Technology - found that Americans’ friendship networks are shrinking — but not because people are retreating into online worlds.
[Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project]
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November 3, 2009
While students and faculty seem to agree on the importance of technology in education, the two groups do not agree on how well it’s being implemented. According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors “understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes.” Students also rated that lack of understanding as “the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration.”
[Source Campus Technology]
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October 30, 2009
EDUCAUSE’s Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report [PDF], based on information from nearly 930 colleges and universities regarding their IT practices and environments. Among the findings: 70% of all campuses have conducted an IT security risk assessment, and only 2-6% of institutions offer 24-7 help desks.
[Source: EDUCAUSE]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
October 26, 2009
Mobile device use is exploding among children worldwide, cell phones and iPods are this generation`s preferred form of social communication. More than half of the world`s population now owns a cell phone and experts project that people will use cell phones as their primary means of accessing the Internet by the year 2020. However, most educators and parents have been skeptical, until now, about mobile devices` value in learning. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop issued a new study today documenting the untapped potential of mobile learning. The report, drawing on market trends and model programs, outlines the first-ever national mobile learning strategy, urging the Obama administration to make new investments in digital learning technologies and teacher training.
[Source: Reuters]
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October 6, 2009
Eszter Hargittai explains how cellphone text messages can be used for social-science research in her new book.
Text messages can be a powerful survey tool even if they are typed on cellphones and are short and grammatically iffy, says Ms. Hargittai, an associate professor of communications studies at Northwestern University, in Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have (University of Michigan Press), which she edited.
She and a graduate student asked 60 students at the University of Illinois at Chicago to text them every hour with information on what they were doing, who they were with, and what sorts of digital media they were using.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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August 31, 2009
They worry about the quality of online courses, say teaching them takes more effort, and grouse about insufficient support. Yet large numbers of professors still put in the time to teach online. And despite the broad suspicion about quality, a majority of faculty members have recommended online courses to students.
That is the complicated picture that emerges in “The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences With Online Learning,” part of a two-volume national study released today by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities—Sloan National Commission on Online Learning.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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