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In the wake of recent efforts in the United States to make it harder to use schools to sell junk food to children (at last) comes a more sweeping idea: remove the commercialism from schools. Corporate sponsorship is everywhere: sponsored field trips, sponsored classroom materials, and more. More...
Corbis Sues Amazon Over Digital Images
Corbis has gone to great lengths over the years to promote and preserve its place as a provider of digital images (the stories I could tell). Now it is expanding its efforts, hitting Amazon and others with lawsuits pertasining to the (allegedly unauthorized) sale of images and posters of stars such as Meg Ryan. Corbis - which readers should recognize is yet another Microsoft brand - has clearly learned nothing from the experiences of the music industry, and if they're not very careful about how they proceed, we could see the rollout one day of Megster (the peer-to-peer Meg Ryan image sharing natwork). More...
Business Blogs Provide Edge, Present Challenges
Take a perfectly good technology, apply it to the corporate arena, and watch it get ruined. I've seen this pattern before, and if this report from the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies conference is any indication, I will see it again. Prepared and piloted content, corporate and legal approval, the public relations blog... all these are instances of the belief that bloggers are "writing as represents the company." Sheesh. More...
Moodle In The Timeline Of ‘Canvas Beats Blackboard’
Moodle News, 2018/07/26
Despite a really annoying subscription prompt that flies into the screen from all directions, this article is a useful adjective-free summary of the reporting around the recent e-Literate-Mindwires announcement that Canvas as surpassed Blackboard. It's an interesting take because missing in all this discussion has been Moodle, and it's worth noting that Blockboard owns a couple of Moodle hosting services. More...
American electronic commerce and cloud computing company Amazon has expanded its Alexa Fund Fellowship, a programme designed to fund and support researchers and universities working on voice technology, from four universities to 18, including its hometown institution, the University of Washington, reports Nat Levy for GeekWire. More...Major universities are outsourcing background checks to a small start-up firm in a bid to crack down on fraud and misrepresentation in the booming international student market as they push into ‘riskier’ regions. The firm has been swamped with interest from universities keen to lure students from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ghana and western Africa, writes Michael Koziol for The Canberra Times. More...
There are many ways to set up National Contact Points (NCPs), which are the responsible business authorities that are established by the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterpirses. But many people have asked me the question: which NCP model works best. More...
By Michael Feldstein. I've written about how Instructure has, by our count, tied and (very) slightly surpassed Blackboard in US market share. Blackboard didn't love that story. You know who else didn't love it. More...
Comcast announced that its Xfinity On Campus service is now available at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). More...
Fiji National University (FNU), located in the Republic of Fiji in the South Pacific, recently chose Ellucian's Banner® as the university’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. Providing student information management, finance, and human resources components, Banner will help FNU deliver an enhanced experience for its students and staff. More...
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