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Audio: Going Green With Technology
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
03-10-2010
Bill Tomlinson, author of Greening Through IT, discusses with the Tech Therapists the ways...
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More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They?
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
03-07-2010
"Camera shy" is not the first phrase that comes to my mind for Siva Vaidhyanathan. The University of Virginia faculty member commands healthy fees for his lively presentations on media studies and law at conferences, and he has even appeared on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. But he's not sure if he should record his lectures—or if he does, whether he should share them freely online.
An associate professor who focuses on digital media, Mr. Vaidhyanathan regularly...
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Video: Superman ... in My Classroom?
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
03-07-2010
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A Small Company, Promising Major Savings on Vital Software, Lures Colleges
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-28-2010
A million dollars a year is a lot of money, yet colleges can hand over that much or more every year to software companies that supply and maintain essential systems for accounting, human resources, and student enrollment. Now, fed up with the fees, some colleges are ditching giant vendors for a small company that promises to support this software at half the price.
But a deal that sounds too good to be true may turn out to be just that.
Cost-conscious colleges are caught in...
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Audio: Planning Strategically for Tough Times Ahead
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-24-2010
Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast discuss the impulse to cut in tough times—and the need to plan for growth.
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Textbook Publishers Win Court Ruling Against File-Sharing Web Site
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-24-2010
Last updated: 11:29 a.m., U.S. Eastern time
In a victory for textbook publishers, a German court has ruled that RapidShare, a file-trading Web site, must do more to stop the unauthorized swapping of some copyrighted books on its service.
The Landgericht in Hamburg, a district court, issued a preliminary ruling against RapidShare this month, prohibiting the company from making available certain copyrighted books on its site. The order took effect on February...
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Format War Heats Up Among Publishers of Electronic Textbooks
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-22-2010
Major textbook publishers are firing the first shots in a format war over their electronic editions, with several players hoping to control distribution to students and to make used textbooks extinct in a future they see as increasingly digital.
Macmillan Publishers plans to announce on Monday its entry in the battle: an unusual publishing platform for electronic textbooks that it hopes to lure other publishers to use as well (in exchange for a cut of their sales). And...
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No Copyrighted Videos on UCLA's Course Web Sites After Legal Threat
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-21-2010
The University of California at Los Angeles has stopped posting copyrighted videos on course Web sites after complaints from an educational-media trade group, leaving other colleges that regularly post multimedia for their students worried about repercussions.
The Association for Information and Media Equipment contacted the university in the fall, alleging that UCLA had violated copyright laws by letting instructors use the videos, which were accessible only to...
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Complaint: U. of Alabama Was Slow to Use Emergency Notification
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-17-2010
It took nearly an hour after the fatal shootings at the University of Alabama at Huntsville on Friday for administrators to send an alert via the emergency-notification system. Some people on the campus say word should have been sent much sooner.
On Monday the university's president, David B. Williams, sent an e-mail message to students and staff, and faculty members saying that administrators would examine the emergency response and consider improvements. "Some of you...
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After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-14-2010
Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.
The virtual world has not lived up to the hype that peaked in 2007, when just about every day brought a new announcement from a college entering Second Life. Today, disenchanted with commercial virtual worlds but still convinced of their educational value, a few colleges have started to...
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Audio: Tech Trends for the Coming Year
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-10-2010
The Tech Therapists look at cloud computing, green technology, and the other major issues that...
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And the Academy Award Goes to ... a Computer Scientist
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
02-07-2010
Paul E. Debevec may be the only research professor whose laboratory subjects have included Charlize Theron and Will Smith. The University of Southern California computer scientist is about to take another unlikely step—from academe to the Academy Awards, for special effects. His pixel wizardry has been featured in films such as Spider-Man 2 and Avatar.
On February 20, in a black-tie geek gala hosted by the actress Elizabeth Banks, of Zack and Miri Make a...
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Apple's New Tablet May Boost Sluggish E-Textbook Market, Publishers Hope
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
01-31-2010
Tablet-style computers could be game-changers for colleges, pushing the adoption of electronic textbooks over a tipping point and bringing in a new era of classroom collaboration. Last week's announcement by Apple Inc. of the iPad tablet has major textbook publishers rejoicing, some education watchers predicting a wave of student purchases, and at least one college saying it will consider giving them to all incoming students.
But wait—it might be time to take a deep breath to...
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There May Be Skeletons in Your Doc's Online Profile
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
01-31-2010
Lindsay A. Thompson was shocked when she and her colleagues perused several hundred of their students' Facebook pages a few years ago. The students had posted pictures from alcohol-soaked parties and gag photos of cross-dressing, and joined groups with acronyms like PIMP.
Nothing unusual for Facebook, of course, but the profiles did not belong to undergraduates; they belonged to medical students and residents at the University of Florida, where Dr. Thompson is an assistant professor...
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Audio: What Does the CFO Know About Technology Anyway?
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
01-27-2010
Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast talk about the chief financial officer’s role in...
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5 Lessons Professors Can Learn From Video Games
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
01-24-2010
Learning is no game on today's college campuses. It's serious work that many students dread. Yet when those same students play video games like World of Warcraft, they happily spend hours on difficult tasks, and actually learn quite a bit in the process.
Granted, what those gamers learn is how to cast spells and fell dragons, which hardly counts toward a college degree. But Constance Steinkuehler argues that there's a good model of teaching in those popular amusements.
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Online-Course Limits, Rooted in Maryland's Racial History, Could Raise Issues for Other States
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
01-24-2010
Last week, 25 new students began training at University of Maryland University College to become community-college administrators.
But none of them live in Maryland. In fact, the university has been barred from offering this online doctoral degree to state residents.
The bizarre situation stems from a turf struggle between UMUC and Morgan State University, a historically black institution in Baltimore that objected to the UMUC effort because it would duplicate a similar...
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Publishers Ask File-Sharing Sites to Help Stop Book Piracy
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 47 sec ago
01-20-2010
A group of publishers is stepping up its fight against pirated textbooks, study guides, and trade books by trying to convince the most popular file-trading sites to install filters or take other measures to stop unauthorized copies of books from appearing on their services.
But will asking nicely spur companies that have not previously adopted such publisher-friendly practices to change?
A committee of the Association of American Publishers spent the...
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Online Scheme Triggers New Fears About Distance-Education Fraud
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 48 sec ago
01-17-2010
At a college that caters to working adults, the 38-year-old blended in with her classmates. But the neatly organized records in Trenda L. Halton's suburban Phoenix home held clues to a double life that has embroiled one of America's largest online-education programs in a half-million-dollar con.
Social Security numbers. Tax returns. High-school diplomas. Ms. Halton used those records in a scheme that defrauded the federal government of about $539,000 in student-aid...
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Graphic: Anatomy of an Online-Education Scam
Chronicle Technology - 6 min 48 sec ago
01-15-2010
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