Crossroads Consulting Group
"Education today is at a crossroads. Institutions choosing the path to distance learning must be prepared to tackle new issues and concerns and to develop new approaches and new skills in order to create an empowering learning process, one of the desired outcomes of distance learning. In addition, as organizations move to the use of distributed teams, there will be increasing need to develop new and more effective facilitation and management skills"
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Information to Students Via Mobile
clearTXT News: "University of Cincinnati joins the clearTXT family, enabling mobile communication to more than 35,000 students.
March 1, 2006
Research Triangle Park, NC, March 1, 2006. Keeping track of class announcements, assignments, schedule changes, and other school information is much easier now for the nearly 35,000 students at the University of Cincinnati. Recently, the university integrated the clearTXT mobile communication system, which delivers important class and school information directly to students' cell phones and email addresses.
“The number one goal of the University's strategic plan is to ‘Place Students at the Center,'” explained Dr. Michael Lieberman, Dean of Instructional and Research Computing. “The plan includes putting the priority on the students' needs, and creating a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-week learning, living and social environment. We believe that clearTXT helps us accomplish those goals.”
“We're extremely proud that the University of Cincinnati selected us to help reach their strategic goals”, said Doug Kaufman, CEO of clearTXT. “We share their dedication to providing student focused learning tools and environments and are committed to helping them achieve their goals.”
This commitment is already evident. According to Dr. Lieberman, “One of the greatest benefits of working with clearTXT is the helpfulness of their staff. The staff was very patient with us as we piloted the product and made sure it worked properly in our complex Blackboard environment. They've been great to work with.”
As clearTXT is adopted throughout the university, students and teachers will make use of even more messaging options available through clearTXT. In the coming semester, plans for clearTXT include partnerships with on- and off-campus organizations and businesses. "
March 1, 2006
Research Triangle Park, NC, March 1, 2006. Keeping track of class announcements, assignments, schedule changes, and other school information is much easier now for the nearly 35,000 students at the University of Cincinnati. Recently, the university integrated the clearTXT mobile communication system, which delivers important class and school information directly to students' cell phones and email addresses.
“The number one goal of the University's strategic plan is to ‘Place Students at the Center,'” explained Dr. Michael Lieberman, Dean of Instructional and Research Computing. “The plan includes putting the priority on the students' needs, and creating a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-week learning, living and social environment. We believe that clearTXT helps us accomplish those goals.”
“We're extremely proud that the University of Cincinnati selected us to help reach their strategic goals”, said Doug Kaufman, CEO of clearTXT. “We share their dedication to providing student focused learning tools and environments and are committed to helping them achieve their goals.”
This commitment is already evident. According to Dr. Lieberman, “One of the greatest benefits of working with clearTXT is the helpfulness of their staff. The staff was very patient with us as we piloted the product and made sure it worked properly in our complex Blackboard environment. They've been great to work with.”
As clearTXT is adopted throughout the university, students and teachers will make use of even more messaging options available through clearTXT. In the coming semester, plans for clearTXT include partnerships with on- and off-campus organizations and businesses. "
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Jon Udell: The iTunes U agenda
Jon Udell: The iTunes U agenda: "I've had mixed feelings about itunes.stanford.edu from the moment I first saw it. When I raised concerns about Apple's approach -- which makes freely-available podcasts and their associated RSS feeds less accessible than they ought to be -- I took a lot of flak for saying so. A number of folks pointed out that Stanford is free to publish its own podcasts, and of course that's true. Just yesterday Dave Winer pointed out that Berkeley is offering a gaggle of them. It's not rocket science, after all. Just about anybody can figure out how to record an MP3 file, upload it somewhere, and maybe even provide an RSS feed with enclosure tags.
The issue here is not whether all university courses should be free. But when universities do choose to publish selected faculty lectures, talks by visiting speakers, or concerts, there are important reasons to make this material as accessible as it can be. Apple's iTunes U has a contrary agenda, and I'm not the only one who's noticed. "
The issue here is not whether all university courses should be free. But when universities do choose to publish selected faculty lectures, talks by visiting speakers, or concerts, there are important reasons to make this material as accessible as it can be. Apple's iTunes U has a contrary agenda, and I'm not the only one who's noticed. "
Sunday, October 30, 2005
FeedTier - RSS Web Feed Generator for Web Pages without Syndication
FeedTier is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing sydincation options. FeedTier is an experimental service and free for personal use.
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Blackboard and Microsoft - Sharepoint Services
Blackboard Media Center: "Blackboard and Microsoft Cooperate to Integrate Administrative and Academic Collaboration Products
New Development Initiative Provides Enhanced User Experiences That Are More Easily Managed Through Joint Standards-Based Integration Project
ORLANDO, FL, Oct 18, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) and Microsoft announced today at the EDUCAUSE 2005 annual conference, a joint development project intended to help academic institutions achieve a higher degree of integration and interoperability between their respective portal and collaboration products. The project will result in tighter integration between The Microsoft Office System and The Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) via standards-based integration of The Blackboard Community System(TM) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.
'With this program we plan to bring closer together the administrative power of Microsoft SharePoint with the academic collaboration capabilities of the Blackboard Community System and the Blackboard Content System,' said Todd Gibby, Executive Vice President of Operations at Blackboard."
New Development Initiative Provides Enhanced User Experiences That Are More Easily Managed Through Joint Standards-Based Integration Project
ORLANDO, FL, Oct 18, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) and Microsoft announced today at the EDUCAUSE 2005 annual conference, a joint development project intended to help academic institutions achieve a higher degree of integration and interoperability between their respective portal and collaboration products. The project will result in tighter integration between The Microsoft Office System and The Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) via standards-based integration of The Blackboard Community System(TM) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.
'With this program we plan to bring closer together the administrative power of Microsoft SharePoint with the academic collaboration capabilities of the Blackboard Community System and the Blackboard Content System,' said Todd Gibby, Executive Vice President of Operations at Blackboard."
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