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Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System - Wired Campus... - 1 views

  • Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS
  • It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle.
Phil Taylor

6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
Phil Taylor

Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online: A Roundup and Reflection - Pro... - 1 views

  • Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online: A Roundup and Reflection
Phil Taylor

Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher"
Phil Taylor

Teaching with Google Wave - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • In fact, Wave is extremely powerful groupware, designed to facilitate the interactions of groups working together on projects
Phil Taylor

College 2.0: Teachers Without Technology Strike Back - Technology - The Chronicle of Hi... - 1 views

  • Ultimately the importance of technology or its absence pales in comparison to the importance of a teacher's attitude, effort, and success. More opinionated academics and nonacademics alike need to view teachers in action and see whether they connect with their students and get the job done. Some of these wonderful and successful teachers will have beautifully planned and integrated technological endeavors, and some will have a whiteboard, chalkboard, or a circle of desks in the center of the room.
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