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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

How to Stretch Your Ed-Tech Budget

Oregon schools adopt Google Apps to save cash, expand ed-tech offerings

November 5, 2013April 28, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Oregon’s 540,000 public school students will be able to get teacher feedback on classroom projects in real time and create web sites and online videos after the state…

eClassroom News

Educators hope Ning stays affordable

November 5, 2013April 27, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Ning, an online social network that lets members create groups on any topic, says it soon will "phase out" its free service, forcing educators to find other alternatives…

District Management

Are today’s students addicted to social media?

November 5, 2013April 26, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

University of Maryland students who went 24 hours without TV, cell phones, MP3 players, and laptops reported symptoms you might expect from someone struggling with substance abuse, including…

District Management

Universities look toward data to stabilize enrollment numbers

November 5, 2013April 26, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

University of Kansas officials are considering working with a data-mining company to pinpoint strategies to keep students enrolled after a recent report showed that 28.7 percent of freshmen…

District Management

Survey: ‘Digital natives’ need more IT support

April 22, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

A recent survey shows even tech-savvy college students require more campus IT support than you might think.

District Management

Virtual Symposium examines worldwide growth of online access

November 5, 2013April 22, 2010 by By Rebecca Clothey

Distance learning, open courseware, eBooks, wikis, and many other innovative technologies have forever affected education by connecting any topic in any discipline to any learner in any place.…

District Management

Data analysis tool offered to colleges free of charge

November 5, 2013April 21, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Faculty and students on 200 campuses nationwide will have free access to advanced data management and analytics software via cloud computing beginning in the fall 2010 semester, after…

District Management

Colleges appeal to students with green policies

April 20, 2010April 19, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Small private colleges and large research universities alike have adopted green policies in recent years in an effort to trim energy bills, encourage sustainability, and lure environmentally conscious…

District Management

Community colleges turn to online classes as enrollments spike

April 16, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Distance learning enrollment in American community colleges jumped by 22 percent during the 2008-09 academic year, an increase fueled in part by an influx of nontraditional students who…

District Management

Researcher: College CIO shortage on the horizon

April 13, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Wayne Brown’s seven years of research has identified a wide swath of campus technology officials eager to become chief information officers someday. They’re just not quite sure how.

District Management

Syllabus digitization takes hold on college campuses

November 5, 2013April 13, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

College students’ online calendars immediately can reflect any changes to their class schedule, test date, or homework due date, thanks to web-based course syllabi that alerts class members…

Teaching Trends

How to grow campus technology amid shrinking resources

April 24, 2011April 9, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Being an IT official at a California university today requires a close look at any measures that can save the campus cash. But Hilary Baker, vice president for…

Teaching Trends

Virtualization saves cash for college IT

April 16, 2010April 9, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Replacing Pepperdine University's computer labs with low-cost PCs would have cost almost $25,000, so campus technology officials turned to virtualized computing, connecting many PCs to a single computer…

How technology can help with language instruction

Developers seek to link iPad with education

November 5, 2013April 5, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Technology experts say Apple's latest gizmo, the iPad, won't replace students' laptops, but a menu of applications could help teach the periodic table, a range of languages, and…

District Management

Social media: Colleges’ newest battlefield for students, alumni donations

November 5, 2013April 5, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Colleges’ unending campaign to attract more students and alumni donations has higher-education officials looking to two technologies that consume a growing chunk of people’s free time: social media…

District Management

Viral eMail roils higher education once again

March 31, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Have you heard the one about shady White House dealings that saved a college basketball coach’s job? The eMail rumor about Oregon State University coach Craig Robinson—President Obama’s…

District Management

Students’ latest ‘crush’: New matchmaking web site

November 5, 2013March 31, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

There’s a Yale student looking for a girl who took a “glorious fall” in the rain and looked “cute” doing it. The incident is spelled out on a…

District Management

Federal CTO calls for ‘student-led innovation’ in developing broadband apps

March 26, 2010March 26, 2010 by Denny Carter

Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer for the Obama administration, has posted a blog entry calling for a campus-based initiative to encourage broadband innovation by students.

District Management

Universities save much-needed cash with the help of technology

November 5, 2013March 26, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

An analytics system designed to manage risks and improve security has saved the University of California’s 10 campuses and five medical centers more than $160 million since 2006,…

District Management

Journalism students turn to Wikipedia to publish stories

November 5, 2013March 25, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

College students know the online resource of which they dare not speak: Wikipedia, the voluminous internet encyclopedia demonized by many in higher education—and a resource that two University…

Class in 140 characters or less?

November 5, 2013March 23, 2010 by By Emily Sawtell and Kathleen King

Most colleges and universities aren't yet capitalizing on the social networking and Web 2.0 tools that keep today's digital natives motivated. It's time to unleash that potential, the…

District Management

Schools beef up security for web applications

November 5, 2013March 23, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

K-12 schools and colleges are adding extra layers of security to web applications that are being used for everything from eMail service to group assignments. The extra security…

Blended Learning

Open courseware as a viable business model?

November 5, 2013March 22, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Open courseware isn’t the end of higher education, as some have feared, but rather a recruiting tool that can lure people to enroll in credit-bearing classes, according to…

District Management

Groups make renewed push for student loan reform

March 15, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Higher education and K-12 activist groups have stepped up their support in recent days for President Obama’s student lending reform legislation, which has stalled in the U.S. Senate…

District Management

Colleges embrace MP4 technology for delivering instruction

November 5, 2013March 12, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Four universities are giving students the chance to complete certificate and degree programs by downloading class material to mobile devices like iPhones and iPods in a distance-learning initiative…

District Management

Blackboard unveils system for disbursing student aid

November 5, 2013March 11, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Some college students will be able to use their allotted financial aid by swiping a debit card instead of waiting for paper checks to come to their dorm…

District Management

Professors, beware: Your nasty eMail could go viral

November 5, 2013March 9, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

The prospect of an eMail bouncing to every corner of the internet has college professors measuring their words carefully after a New York University professor’s acerbic eMail to…

District Management

UCLA resumes streaming video after legal complaint

November 5, 2013March 5, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

In the latest development in a dispute with broad implications for colleges nationwide, UCLA says it will continue to stream online instructional videos to students. The move comes…

District Management

UCLA resumes streaming video after legal complaint

May 6, 2012March 5, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

In the latest development in a dispute with broad implications for colleges nationwide, UCLA says it will continue to stream online instructional videos to students. The move comes…

District Management

Botnets continue to threaten campus networks

April 1, 2010March 3, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Web security experts say university IT officials should stop using students’ Social Security numbers as identifications, because about 5,900 known botnets have stolen valuable information from computers in…

Teaching & Learning

Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny

March 3, 2010 by Denny Carter

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of internet search, reports the Associated Press.

Teaching & Learning

NCAA Tournament goes online, clip by clip

March 3, 2010 by Denny Carter

In a move that could further sap bandwidth on college campuses, the NCAA now offers fans a way to watch searchable highlights from men’s basketball tournament games since…

Teaching & Learning

Stimulus money to wire Utah’s elementary schools

March 3, 2010 by Denny Carter

Utah education officials have secured a $13.4 million federal grant to pipe broadband into dozens of elementary schools, making internet access available to thousands of students, reports the…

Teaching & Learning

Intel’s new convertible Classmate PC doubles as an eReader

March 3, 2010 by Denny Carter

The Intel Classmate PC has been around for the last three years as a low-cost notebook meant for children to use at school and for learning. Now, Intel…

Teaching & Learning

U.S. loses innovation crown to … Iceland?

March 3, 2010 by Denny Carter

Once upon a time—actually, it was just last year—the U.S. was the world innovation champion, according to an annual report by INSEAD and the Confederation of Indian Industry.…

Featured Funding News

Technology makes student aid more accessible

November 5, 2013March 3, 2010 by By Mark Kantrowitz

Over the past decade and a half, the internet has made it easier for families to learn about, find, and apply for college scholarships, government grants, and other…

University library sees demand for Kindles soar

November 5, 2013March 1, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

For students looking to temper sober textbook readings with a literary escape into the world of vampires and zombies, Oregon State University is loaning out Amazon Kindle electronic…

District Management

How to grow campus technology amid shrinking resources

February 25, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Being an IT official at a California university today requires a close look at any measures that can save the campus cash. But Hilary Baker, vice president for…

District Management

Schools fall victim to P2P security breaches

November 5, 2013February 24, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Peer-to-peer file sharing in schools and colleges has come under scrutiny again after a Federal Trade Commission probe turned up massive security breaches that made student grades, Social…

District Management

Online books let college students earn credit—and cash

November 5, 2013February 23, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Nineteen business majors are trying to sell the idea of free online textbooks to their professors in an internship program that pushes open content technology designed to counter…

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