By Eric Stoller. Campus Recreation & Intramurals (CRI) at Georgia Southern University has gone mobile. Created by Chris Butler and his student staff, CRI Mobile represents a shift from multi-faceted campus apps to single-purpose mobile apps. It's a move that is similar to how Facebook spun off their popular Messenger application. LinkedIn is another company that has implemented a similar single-serve mentality. More...
By Joshua Kim. Many of us are very curious about the new Unizin Consortium, and what the emergence of Unizin means to schools that use the Canvas LMS but that are not members of the group.
Jared Stein, Instructure’s VP of Research and Education, graciously agreed to tackle my questions. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Apple just released the new thinner, lighter and faster iPad Air 2. I am not enthused. You?
The strange thing is that I continue to think that higher ed one-to-one iPad programs are a good idea. I like the iPad Mini and the iTunes U Courses app. I think that it makes sense to put all of the curriculum of a program, all the articles and book chapters and videos, into an iTunes U course. Read more...
By Jason B. Jones. This afternoon brings yet another set of Apple announcements–definitely new iPads, a specific release date for the new Mac operating system, and apparently retina displays for the iMac. And whenever Apple releases a product, other folks do also, with Google announcing the Nexus 9 that runs the new Android Lollipop OS. Read more...
Blog Educpros de Jean-François Fiorina. Après une série de tweets vendredi dernier @JFFiorina sur les objets connectés (dans le cadre du salon SEMICON 2014), je m’intéresse aujourd’hui à la place des robots dans l’école du futur. J’ai d’ailleurs été interpellé sur cette question tout récemment. Chose promise, chose due ! Voici comment une école de management peut s’approprier le monde des robots, sans tomber dans la science fiction. Suite...
By Cathy Davidson. Anxiety runs high when you have over twenty virtual partners in a live-streamed event being held in a room that has not before had a live-streamed event. We're doing our best. But, remember, the Graduate Center, where we are hosting "What Is A Dissertation?" at 4 pm EST today (Friday Oct 10), is in midtown Manhattan, directly across from the Empire State Building. More...
It won't take long to spot a cell phone on a table in The Huddle at Augustana College.
Researchers surveyed more than 150 college students, and 60 percent of them said they are addicted to their cell phones and spend on average eight to 10 hours a day on it.
Even without a smartphone, Matt Thompson said he's been in social settings where people are easily distracted. More...
By John Warner. You may be hearing some significant ed tech news in the automated feedback/grading software arena today.
Turnitin, a company most known for its automated plagiarism detection software is acquiring LightSide Labs, a "start-up with roots in Carnegie Mellon University that uses machine learning algorithms to provide automated feedback on student writing.”
I knew this was happening last Friday because I was sent an "embargoed" press release announcing this news by Chris Harrick, VP of Marketing for Turnitin. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The other day my wife wanted me to order her a mouse. A mouse? I had no idea where to start. The last time I used an external mouse was during George W. Bush’s presidency. My complete lack of mouse knowledge didn’t slow her down. She just went to Amazon. (To quote my wife during our mouse discussion: “What do you do all day long? I thought you were a tech nerd or something”). Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. When the Kuali Foundation in August confused and surprised the open-source software community with the announcement that it would launch KualiCo, a commercial service provider, rSmart’s Chris Coppola was a voice of reason. Read more...
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