By Jared D. Padgett. Providers’ advice on easing the transition to a new IP-based phone system. More...By Jared D. Padgett. Digital signage has come a long way in the last decade, and is increasingly utilized in higher education. Universities are an ideal place for digital signage, offering a variety of different venues for unique content including dining facilities; faculty and staff offices; faculty, staff, and student lounges; health clinics; gymnasiums or sporting arenas; theaters; classrooms; and student residence halls. More...
By Kenneth C. Green. At the risk of redundancy (or perhaps shameless self-promotion), several issues from the release of my Going Digital survey earlier this week warrant some additional commentary beyond the reporting from Inside Higher Ed and other sources. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I almost always agree with Tracy Mitrano, but I don’t when it comes to the FBI’s demand that Apple help them access information on a phone used by one of the mass killers in San Bernardino. Read more...
By Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. Do you feel anxious and irritable when you think about your email? Do you picture Charlie Chaplin at the ever-accelerating assembly line when you open your overflowing inbox? In a recent meeting, a colleague announced resignedly that he needed an email therapist. He was joking, but each of us could relate to that electronic spiral of despair. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. Study shows faculty members remain skeptical of digital course materials and generally unfamiliar with open educational resources. Read more...
Salarié, employeur, demandeur d’emploi, tous ont des compétences numériques acquises dans le cadre professionnel ou privé. NetPublic propose en ligne un questionnaire qui vise à aider le public à mettre en valeur ses compétences sur des activités liées au numérique. L’évaluation finale permet de proposer à l’internaute une liste de métiers qui pourraient lui correspondre dans un EPN. Faire le test. Voir l'article...
« Nouveaux espaces, nouvelles interactions dans l’université à l’ère du numérique » : tel était le thème de la journée des référents numériques qui a eu lieu le 29 janvier dernier dans les locaux de la CPU. Cet évènement a pris place dans le cadre de la préparation du colloque annuel de la CPU « Campus en mouvement » qui se déroulera du 25 au 27 mai à l’université d’Orléans. Il était ouvert à tous les représentants des établissements d’enseignement supérieur. Voir l'article...
Started in 1997, WashingtonOnline Virtual Campus (WAOL) consists of a consortium of 34 community colleges around Washington State to provide asynchronous online learning. WAOL bears many of the features of a loosely coupled organization with its geographically dispersed frontline instructors, fragmented external environment, modularity of courses and supervision, and its use of enhanced leadership and technology to communicate a culture. More...
The axiom of humanity’s basic need to communicate provides the impetus to explore the nature and quality of computer-mediated communication as a vehicle for learning in higher education. This exploratory study examined the experiential communication perceptions of online doctoral students during the infancy of their program. Eighty-five students were electronically queried through a 32 item open-ended questionnaire within a 13 day time frame. More...
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