to every student who enrolls at the private liberal arts college: a personal Hewlett-Packard notebook computer, compliments of Bethel’s one-to-one notebook program.

the system puts 360-degree viewing controls in the hands of instructors and their students, who can review the recording of a dancer from many different angles as they critique interpretation as well as technique. They can study the anatomy of the dancer in three-dimensional space and analyze every movement more fully than would be possible even with a live dancer in a traditional studio with mirrored walls. “Dance is the type of thing that’s normally done only ‘in the moment,’” says Ostrander, “but we are able to freeze the dancer’s recorded motions and play them forward or backward, more slowly or faster, [and from various angles], to view all the intricacies of the dance.”

Providing an experience much like shopping online, the SIS automates the process of guiding students through course selection based on their academic goals. A student can create customized lists of courses he is interested in; view a profile of an instructor; find a course location on a campus map; and review the details of the course offering. He can add courses to his personal shopping cart and view them in relation to other classes in a day/time grid. In addition, he can sign up for daily e-mails that list the classes in his shopping cart, their current status, and how many seats are still available. This information is also available in a personalized RSS feed that is updated every half hour.

The system they developed in house has allowed UI’s small group of technicians to receive up-to-the-minute status reports on all classroom projectors and audio/video equipment at a glance. Its monitoring capabilities enable them to respond more quickly to user requests as well as develop preventive maintenance plans to cut down on hardware failures.

Students have used geospatial technologies to map more than 12,000 infrastructure elements along miles of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, enabling emergency responders to find critical utility points to restore services in the wake of natural disasters.

open source application that allows students to submit assignments for studio-based art instruction in a fully online course.

SimSoap, a Twitter soap opera tied to a cardiac care simulation, is a project of Innovative Nursing Education Technologies (iNET), a federally funded collaborative effort among the nursing programs at Duke, Western Carolina University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to integrate technology into nursing education. The goal of SimSoap is to create teaching materials that are fun and immersive for nursing students. “Our hope is to model the use of Twitter and spark the curiosity of nurse educators,” says Mary Barzee, iNET’s program coordinator.

The Curriculum Innovation and Technology Group (CITG) is a curriculum-based technology consulting organization that provides thought leadership and support services to the Babson College academic programs and Babson College faculty.  The group's primary focuses include: Researching and developing best practices and innovative uses of technology in education Empowering faculty to use technology and appropriate pedagogies in their course and content development Collaborating with program administrators and faculty to innovate the curriculum through technology integration Contributing to Babson brand-building by positioning the College as a leader in curriculum innovation and technology

He was responsible for Babson’s adoption of blended learning and led the effort to increase working professional MBA enrollments by 500% through the creation of a state-of-the-art, blended, MBA program.

Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site.

Gregory Phelan

Phelan pointed to the colleges that are "handing out" tablet PCs to all freshmen as the frontrunners in the race to equip students with all of the information they need to succeed in school. Whether other universities follow that lead remains to be seen. "I'd really like to see more schools making that move," said Phelan, "and even further integrate technology into the college classroom."

One of the coolest uses of technology that Hutchins has seen lately can be found in Rutgers University's English department, which is equipped with an entire wall of touch-enabled whiteboards. Using precision positioning technology, the wall-mounted boards allow for unprecedented participation and collaboration among students.