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The LMS market today faces a strange contradiction - few teachers truly *love* their current LMS but at the same time no one wants to endure the pain of switching to a new LMS. The LMS vendors are slowly cloning each other's features and innovation is slowing. At the same time how people teach and how people learn using technology is constantly changing and evolving. Teachers continuously experiment with technologies outside of the LMS system with varying levels of success

Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the "declared" set of friends and followers.

Ball State's Emerging Media Initiative (EMI) is a planned $17.7 million investment in focusing the university's historic strengths in this area, accelerating benefits to the state of Indiana with media-savvy human capital. Our students will have access to innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities in emerging media across the curriculum. Our growing emphasis on new ideas, technology transfer, and commercialization will provide the support faculty need to bring their ideas to market.

I've been watching with some interest Internet discussions about a campaign video commissioned by Emily Rowe in her run for student president at The UWO. The video is play on the Discovery Channel's popular "Boom De Ya Da!" ad. Instead of the world, the players in the video love Western.

Toronto was the first city to break the one million user mark, and in some cities non-Facebook users are in the minority. This article examines evidence that Facebook is reaching saturation levels in Canada.

Videos and Channels from Colleges and Universities.