ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: March 2011 news summary
Technology impacting on education: March 2011 news summary
Borders collapse: readers turn to e-books IELTS software ridiculed Cloud email crawls to RMIT students, staff Australia: Day of the iPad arrives Technology transforms the lecture Melbourne uni floats IPTV for international students University: Bundle student NBN access cost into HECS Why You Need Facebook’s Like Buttons On Your Site The high-tech halls Unis prepare for next Cloud wave IT could split higher education Tablet devices: iPad takes over as the lecture hall aid of choice Strong and Steady Wins the Retention Race Ohio System Teams with Flat World Knowledge on Freebie Digital Textbooks When Textbooks and Social Media Collide Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses Tablets emerge as new uni tool Students use YouTube in quake fund-raising 7 Digital Trends Worth Your Attention Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
Borders collapse: readers turn to e-books The Sydney Morning Herald March 28 2011 Consumer interest in e-books has jumped since Borders and Angus & Robertson slipped into voluntary administration, according to industry insiders, suggesting a swift pace of growth in the sector this year. The Australian arm of Canada-based e-books company Kobo estimates there has been at least a 30 per cent increase in traffic to its sites, generating “good” sales, since REDgroup Retail slipped into voluntary administration.... Full article: http://goo.gl/wkkbb IELTS software ridiculed The Australian March 23 2011 IELTS Australia, the company that runs English language testing here, was warned about its unreliable software but did nothing, a corruption watchdog has been told. The West Australian Corruption and Crime Commission is investigating claims that overseas students paid up to $11,000 for false IELTS test results so they could qualify for permanent residency.... Full article: http://goo.gl/lYjuw Cloud email crawls to RMIT students, staff Computerworld.com.au March 21 2011
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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: March 2011 news summary
Though self-admittedly lagging on a trend most universities completed in the past few years, RMIT in Melbourne has committed to migrating its student and staff email accounts to a hosted solution. Headed by Brian Clark, appointed executive director of IT services at the university in January, the institution will look to either Google’s Gmail or Microsoft’s Live@edu hosted solutions.... Full article: http://goo.gl/xmy2U Australia: Day of the iPad arrives University World News March 20 2011 As the Australian academic year got under way late last month, a South Australian university became the first in the world to give an Apple iPad to all its first-year science students as part of a curriculum shake-up. Meantime, other universities are also changing their teaching through the use of new technology but perhaps not so generously.... Full article: http://goo.gl/4qOq3 Technology transforms the lecture University World News March 20 2011 Dr Birgit Loch (pictured) is helping reshape the age-old formal lecture with its talking head and passive students. Using new technology to boost student learning, improve their marks and even keep drop-out rates down, Loch has incorporated tablet PCs with touch-sensitive screens, clickers and screencasts.... Full article: http://goo.gl/h5bqt Melbourne uni floats IPTV for international students ComputerWorld.com.au March 18 2011 IPTV service prototype, Uni TV, could be the key to bossting the number of international student studying at Australian universities An internet protocol television (IPTV) service prototype developed by the University of Melbourne could be used to attract international students to study with Australian universities from abroad.... Full article: http://goo.gl/wm5HC University: Bundle student NBN access cost into HECS ARNnet March 18 2011 Melbourne’s Monash University also sees the NBN as an incentive for international students to study in Australia Upfront technology costs including access to the National Broadband Network (NBN) should be part of the Federal Government’s deferred education fee payment scheme for university students, according.... ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology impacting on education: March 2011 news summary
Full article: http://goo.gl/cnQNY Why You Need Facebook’s Like Buttons On Your Site AllFacebook.com March 15 2011 All web publishers should strongly consider implementing Facebook’s like buttons into their sites. If you head over to the Facebook For Websites page, you will find an overview of all of the social plugins available to publishers. Facebook has made it extremely user friendly for publishers to implement the like buttons into.... Full article: http://goo.gl/DF7we The high-tech halls The Age March 17 2011 Tertiary students are spending less time on campus than ever before. With the help of changing technology they are increasingly logging on to learn. But are they the better for it? MADDY Murphy is your typical university student. She commutes to Monash University from her parents' home up to four days a week and works up to 20 hours at a part-time job. On Mondays she forgoes a class so she can go to work and catches up by downloading a podcast of the lecture.... Full article: http://goo.gl/faXKQ Unis prepare for next Cloud wave ComputerWorld.com.au March 16 2011 Blackboard managed hosting gains traction as universities contemplate further outsourcing moves Following a wave of migration to Cloud-based email systems for students and staff, Australian universities are preparing for the next migration trend, outsourcing instances of the popular Blackboard student resources portal.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ebaDX IT could split higher education University World News March 13 2011 Information technology is a multi-faceted and potentially disruptive phenomenon and we should not assume business as usual, the President of the Commonwealth of Learning, Sir John Daniel*, told the congress.
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Delivering the first international keynote address, Daniel said that if used properly, education technology could achieve wider access, higher quality and lower cost.... Full article: http://goo.gl/yykgq Tablet devices: iPad takes over as the lecture hall aid of choice FT.com March 14 2011 At their fingertips: MBA students have rapidly adopted Apple’s touchscreen device At the start of 2010, Apple’s iPad had not even been announced, let alone released. But within months of the tablet computer’s April debut it was being adopted in boardrooms around the world as the favourite toy of executives as diverse as WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell and News Corp’s James Murdoch.... Full article: http://goo.gl/SVOR2 Strong and Steady Wins the Retention Race CampusTechnology.com March 09 2011 Director of Retention Angela Naginey has employed a “holistic” strategy in her retention initiative at Cal Lutheran University. Her plan includes partnerships across campus, early identification of at-risk students, and a continuous review process. All components are supported both with software.... Full article: http://goo.gl/iRkxi Ohio System Teams with Flat World Knowledge on Freebie Digital Textbooks CampusTechnology.com March 09 2011 The University System of Ohio is setting a spark under faculty members to encourage them to try out digital textbooks in the classroom with a new pilot program that will allow 1,000 Ohio students to receive the texts for free. The system is working with Flat World Knowledge, a company that publishes textbooks online and.... Full article: http://goo.gl/bIpRV When Textbooks and Social Media Collide CampusTechnology.com March 09 2011 A professor at a Christian liberal arts college in Michigan puts textbooks together with social networking to get students jazzed about historical events. Right around the time that the term "social networking" was starting to roll off the tongues of school administrators and teachers, Christian Spielvogel was already deep in the throes of a project that would combine the next concept with traditional textbooks.... Full article: ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
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http://goo.gl/KkUEf Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses The Association of American University Presses March 2011 A Report of the AAUP Task Force on Economic Models for Scholarly Publishing.... Full article: http://goo.gl/E0xfg Tablets emerge as new uni tool The Sydney Morning Herald March 08 2011 THE 53 students who enrolled in RMIT University's new pharmacy degree program this year are pioneers in more ways than one. Before they began the course last week, each student was given an Apple iPad as a basic tool in the learning process. At Adelaide University, one faculty has been even bolder. The 702 students who signed up for science this year have been given free iPads.... Full article: http://goo.gl/6zNuV Students use YouTube in quake fund-raising Otago Daily Times March 03 2011 Students at an Auckland school are using YouTube to promote an international fund-raising campaign to raise money for Christchurch's earthquake recovery. Glen Eden Intermediate School students released a clip today asking foreign schools to organise "All Red and Black Days" to raise funds for the New Zealand Red Cross.... Full article: http://goo.gl/KQXhh 7 Digital Trends Worth Your Attention MediaBistro.com March 03 2011 The 2011 social media trends watch continued as Steve Rubel, SVP and director of insights at Edelman Digital, highlighted predictions and recommendations for this year while speaking at the BRITE ’11 conference hosted by Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership in New York.... Full article: http://goo.gl/zNmYN Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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