Survey: IT college grads not ‘ready to go’
Many companies and college IT departments are ready to hire as the economy thaws, but more than nine in 10 college graduates who majored in information technology (IT)…
Dennis has covered higher education technology since April 2008, having interviewed some of the most recognized IT pros in U.S. colleges and universities. He is always updating eCampus News with the latest in pressing ed-tech issues, such as the growing i
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- Lawmakers to colleges: No more social media prying - April 25, 2013
- Number of college applications affected by social media triples - October 9, 2012
- Gates Foundation supports college readiness apps - September 28, 2012
Company claim: Emergency alerts get to students in 20 seconds
A two-inch keychain might be the solution for campus officials hoping to avoid public scrutiny next time their emergency text messages hit a logjam and don’t reach student…
Ga. Tech to host disabled STEM students in Second Life
Colleges and universities have shown concern about the growing gender gap in science, technology, education, and math (STEM), and Georgia Tech has found another group often left out…
Facebook malware threatens campus web security
Students will click on just about anything posted to their Facebook walls—a social media habit that has brought a flood of malware to college campus networks.
Tech tool could take the guessing out of college fundraising
College and university fundraising officials might not have to wonder how alums feel about their alma mater thanks to a computer program that can tell just how much…
New clicker technology allows a different look at student answers
The anonymity of lecture hall response systems has taken the awkwardness out of sensitive questions in Timothy Loving’s Introduction to Family Relationships course, and a new clicker software…
Open courseware on every campus by 2016?
Just as colleges and universities have adopted online classes over the past decade, students can expect free open courseware of some kind at every campus in the U.S.…
Feds reverse course on open education mandate
The departments of Education and Labor have heeded calls from online education experts to change a mandate in a $2 billion grant program that opened last month, meaning…
Campus libraries use tech to streamline student searches, staff work
A smart-phone application has ended the days of database searches at Boston College libraries, and staff members at Eastern Illinois University’s library can take inventory in two hours…
Obama to push for new ed-tech agency
President Obama will request fiscal 2012 funding for an educational technology agency within the U.S. Department of Education (ED) that would bring resources and funding to schools and…
Tech-savvy students prompt colleges to revamp rules
Tony Brown didn’t set out to overhaul his college’s policies on intellectual property. He just wanted an easier way of tracking local apartment rentals on his iPhone.
To ‘friend’ or not to ‘friend’: Professor-student Facebook relationships
Kathryn Linder used to accept Facebook friend requests from her students, until the Suffolk University official considered the repercussions of blending her social and professional lives.
Google makes ed-tech splash with apps marketplace
Google opened an Apps Marketplace for educators Jan. 25, creating an online repository filled with learning management system (LMS) software, web-based grade books, and other content that can…
New site offers college essays, sans plagiarism
Being the first in his family to graduate from high school, Paris Wallace said he sympathizes with teenagers who find themselves alone in the circuitous college application process,…
Nursing students to use iPods for treatment, exams
Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Nursing will be able to translate patient questions from English to Spanish, run diagnostic tests, and prepare…
States look to Indiana as a model for online instruction
Washington state could mimic Indiana’s successful model for online instruction if a state legislator’s proposed bill that would make online college classes more available to students there becomes…
Blackboard backs ed-tech standards
Common standards for online learning became more likely this week after Blackboard, Inc. announced that it would support an open database initiative that could make educational content usable…
University looks to draw students to STEM education
Arizona State University officials will invite teenagers to learn about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from experts in those fields. The campus program joins a host of…
Universities find the virtualization ‘sweet spot’
There hasn’t been much opposition to ridding college campuses of clunky, energy-guzzling server racks, campus technology chiefs say, although creating virtual servers could result in an unwieldy mess…
Adaptive learning tool helps spur individual success
Undergraduate professors employ myriad techniques to motivate their students to arrive prepared for active discussion. Despite our efforts, students often fall well short of our preparation expectations and…
College help-desk services lagging in tech use
University help-desk services need a technological makeover, according to a recent report that shows students and faculty at seven out of 10 schools can’t hold online chats with…
Instructing online instructors
Tammy Hall encourages first-time online instructors to ready themselves for any and all student questions on the first day of class, knowing that no amount of prep can…
Technology helps save college fundraising
Carefully crafted social media strategies and web videos that tug alumni heartstrings could become a foundation of college fundraising as campus officials use dwindling resources to recover from…
Touring campuses in three dimensions … from your living room
It doesn’t require airfare or gas money, and students think it’s cool: Three-dimensional virtual campus tours have launched at seven colleges and universities, providing a welcomed alternative to…
Can Twitter use help improve grades? Some researchers think so
Twitter use might be more than an extracurricular activity for college students, according to researchers from three universities whose work suggests that using the popular microblogging service to…
Will online games-for-scholarships site fly with parents?
Angelo Tartaro said his business model could prompt a sentence never before uttered by a parent: “I want to one day hear a mother say, ‘Tommy, put down…
Text messaging: a lecture hall epidemic?
College students say their professors would be “shocked” to know just how often they send text messages during lectures, and one researcher has offered a simple and stringent…
Professor’s ‘yawn’ rant offers a lesson in viral video
Cornell University Professor Mark Talbert’s search for a student who yawned during class was first seen by about 200 students. The recorded rant had been viewed 218,000 times…
Survey suggests college students still tepid on eBooks
Colleges’ embrace of electronic books runs the spectrum from hesitant acceptance to full investment, but students’ reluctance to use the nontraditional textbooks remains, if a new national survey…
Do students need a social media safeguard?
For college students prone to posting 2 a.m. Facebook status updates detailing the party they just stumbled from, there’s a new web application that might save them from…
Feds propose shifting more airwaves to broadband
Federal officials looking for more airwaves to deliver wireless broadband services are recommending that the government reallocate a sizeable chunk of radio spectrum currently used for naval radar…
More professors give out handheld devices to monitor and engage students
More than half a million college students now use wireless devices, or “clickers,” to register class attendance and take quizzes, reports the New York Times.
Facebook’s revamped messaging: The future of communication?
Facebook is betting that one day soon, we'll all be acting like high school students, reports the Associated Press: more texting and instant-messaging, at the expense of eMail.
Google working on phone with built-in payment tool
Google Inc. is taking another stab at designing a game-changing mobile phone, this time by including a built-in payment system that eventually could enable the devices to replace…
Online college classes: An answer to budget shortfalls?
California’s use of online distance education is “limited,” and campuses across the state should partner with a leading online university to expand students’ access to a college degree…
Universities add open eBooks to iTunes U
Rice University has joined Oxford University and The Open University in contributing free, open eBooks to the iTunes U web site, using the burgeoning EPUB format that lets…
University web site addresses gender gap in STEM fields
Arizona State University officials aren’t just adding to the reams of research showing a gender gap in the science, technology, education, and math (STEM) fields. They’re confronting the…
Florida college looks to become eBook pioneer
An all-eTextbook campus won’t just make Florida’s Daytona State College the envy of the education-technology world. The program will also save academic careers cut short when students can’t…
Online learning official: Lecture capture helps students ‘review, review, review’
Jacqueline Moloney wants college students to do less transcribing and more listening.
University dean accidentally hits the ‘reply all’ button
Higher-education faculty and administrators got another lesson in the pitfalls of electronic communication and viral eMail messages last week when a University of Missouri dean mistakenly sent a…
