"Blackboard announced on Wednesday it is buying out two software companies in an effort to bolster its real-time collaboration features and satisfy a generation of professors and students increasingly shaped by social media. The company, infamous to some in higher education for its habit of swallowing up smaller fish, said it is buying Wimba and Elluminate, top providers of software that lets students work together online, for a total of $116 million."

Adobe launched Flash Player for Android 10.1 today--the latest move in the Chess match between Adobe and Apple over the future of interactive mobile ads and video content. Now, the world can begin to experience firsthand whether Flash delivers as expected on smartphones, or if Steve Jobs made the right move in turning his back on the platform.

Slides from a presentation on the Tests & Quizzes tool (OOTB, Tests & Surveys Beta @ IU).

Responding to student writing in an effective and timely manner is important to student success. And we want students to succeed, to be good writers. However, students don't often expect to receive detailed and intricate feedback on their work; they expect to see the dreaded "red pen" marks. They assume that we don't really read their writing, that we give each page a cursory glance, and that we are only looking for spelling and grammatical errors. This implies-and the students believe-that "writing" is only "writing correctly." But writing is much more than that, and as professionals we understand this. We know that revision has a key role in the process of writing, but good revision requires good feedback.

People have been talking about e-books since the current crop of college students was watching Rugrats, yet use has been limited mostly to die-hard techies content to put up with significant drawbacks and uncertain benefits. Until now.

Technology and Education Box of Tricks

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

"Open Educational Resources are all about sharing. In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know."

Einztein is your guide to the universe of free online courses. Whether you already know what you're looking for, or you just have a general idea, Einztein's purpose is to make the search for free online courses easy and rewarding. Hundreds of online courses have been designed by universities and similar institutions on chemistry, physics, history and many, many other subject areas that will help enhance your knowledge and skills.

College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They? There are good reasons to press the 'record' button, but uploading to the Internet might desecrate the classroom