Executive View
- Rochester Institute of Technology staff and students built their own HD broadcast and production trailer, which is used to provide live coverage of sporting events on campus. The result is not only more sports coverage, but a real-world, relevant educational experience for RIT students.
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Worth Noting
- Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, PA has adopted college portal CampusCruiser from Timecruiser Computing. The portal will provide a single entry point to Blackboard, the college's learning management system, and will connect users to integrated calendars, e-mail, chat, blogs, and message boards.
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- Google Apps Education Edition is coming to an open source learning management system near you. Moodlerooms, a Moodle partner, is launching a new enhancement to the open source LMS in collaboration with search giant Google to provide access to the application suite using a single sign-on.
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- Research institutions that are part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence have launched a "Tools as a Service" (TaaS) cloud computing pilot program with IBM in an effort to provide researchers, students, and faculty with access to business software and software development tools.
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- The University of Memphis is deploying a new constituent relationship management system to manage students from initial interest until graduation. The university will use Hobsons' EMT Connect Enterprise CRM Solution and EMT Retain to increase student recruitment and retention.
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Online Resources
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Google Search For Your School
Sponsored by: Google
Learn how deploying a scalable search solution enables students to
easily access course schedules, curriculum, prerequisites, campus
activities, and other content; increases faculty and staff productivity
by making research and administrative documents easily searchable online;
and helps prospective students and members of the community find the
information they need on your website using a familiar search tool
customized to your needs. Learn from the experiences of leading institutions
such as Illinois State University and the University of Florida in this
free, 60-minute webcast sponsored by Google.
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Webinar: Seton Hall Increases Student Participation, Content Mastery
Sponsored by: DyKnow
How do you actively engage students when they are sitting behind a
computer? Seton Hall University set out to answer that question.
For some professors, the answer was limiting student access to
distracting applications. For others, it was building interactive
learning activities that leveraged PC tools. Join Riad Twal, Instructional
Designer, as he explores the school's implementation of a laptop program
and DyKnow software. Learn how professors increase class participation
and content mastery through student response tools, content replay and
collaborative note taking.
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Keys to Effective Document Management and Retention in Education
Sponsored by eBridge Solutions
In this session, experts reveal how you can better manage documents and
information across departments and comply with record retention requirements
with document management solutions from eBridge Solutions. Get keys for
implementing effective documentation retention practices and see how
eBridge Solutions enabled one school to more efficiently store, share
and retrieve: administrative records, contracts and agreements, curriculum
and instructional records and more.
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The 21st Century Campus: One Student's Perspective
Sponsored by CDWG-21st Century
Integrating technology into curricula is the key to building a 21st
Century campus. Visit this Solution Center to find ideas, strategies
and advice for implementing and funding your 21st Century campus initiatives.
Plus, get real-world insight as Andy Homrich, a senior speech communications
major at the University of Georgia, Athens, talks with us about his
daily experiences with the 21st Century campus.
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