ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand August 2011 technology and education news
August 2011 technology and education news OrgSync Reaches 200 Higher Education Customers and 500,000 Registered Users A textbook case for digital learning Social media sells education University of Tasmania Adopts Desire2Learn Learning Suite University of Auckland fears high cost as anti-piracy laws loom University of Sydney adopts desktop virtualisation Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
OrgSync Reaches 200 Higher Education Customers and 500,000 Registered Users PRWeb.com August 24 2011 Rapidly growing SaaS technology company celebrates significant milestones in four-year history We will continue investing in our team to ensure that we have the necessary resources required to deliver the same premium support and customer service that our campus partners have grown accustomed to. - Eric Fortenberry, OrgSync, a provider of online community management solutions, has reached two significant milestones in its four-year history: 200 campus customers and 500,000 registered student users. This year alone, the Company has welcomed more than 60 new campus partners into the OrgSync family including.... Full article: http://goo.gl/38xYT
A textbook case for digital learning The Sydney Morning Herald August 16 2011 HEAVY, expensive, often quickly out of date. Textbooks can break a university student's budget, with the cost for some courses running into hundreds of dollars a semester. But e-textbooks, accessible through tablet devices such as the Kindle and iPad, could change that. In July, online retail giant Amazon announced textbooks would be available for rent to students in the US, saving them up to 80 per cent on the cost of a hard copy. The scheme would allow users to make notes and mark pages in their e-textbooks, making them truly the student's own, but it is not clear that students will jump on board.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Z6EYI Social media sells education The Australian August 12 2011 THE explosion in internet access has transformed the 3.5 million strong market for international education according to a four year global research project by the British Council's Education Intelligence unit, published today exclusively by The Australian.
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