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Blackboard Launches Blackboard Analytics
Blackboard Inc. — Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Blackboard Inc. opened a major focus in data analytics with the launch of a business intelligence solution for higher education and a commitment to accelerating innovation to help them make better use of data to inform important decisions across the institution. Read More »
National University Selects EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Publishing — Tuesday, February 08, 2011
National University, the second-largest private, nonprofit institution of higher education in California and the flagship university of the National University System, has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ from EBSCO Publishing to provide the University with a way to deliver its large collection to the end user and to make its library resources easier to find. Read More »
Pearson, Moberly Area CC Partner To Increase Access to Affordable Course Materials
Pearson — Monday, January 31, 2011
Pearson announced a partnership with Missouri's Moberly Area Community College to increase students' access to affordable course materials through a variety of print and digital package options. The college currently uses the Pearson LearningStudio platform to power its online learning programs. Read More »
Twenty Campuses Launch Pilot of Combined Solution
Blackboard Inc. and McGraw-Hill — Thursday, January 27, 2011
Twenty different colleges and universities have partnered with Blackboard Inc. and McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, to test drive the latest in higher education technology: a combined solution that offers students and instructors a single point of access for courses, content and learning tools. Read More »
New E-Textbooks Help Students Save an Average of $60 Per Title
Association of American Publishers — Monday, January 24, 2011
Newly released statistics from digital course materials provider, CourseSmart.com, show that college students returning to classes this January can save an average of $60 per title by using state-of-the-art e-textbooks. Similarly, Simba Information recently predicted that e-textbooks will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 48.5% by 2013. Read More »
Partnership To Save Students Up to 40% on Textbooks
Pearson — Thursday, January 20, 2011
Cerritos College and Pearson announced a customized textbook program for the college’s humanities and social sciences division, which is projected to save students an average of 40 percent over standard textbooks. The Cerritos College-Pearson partnership is the first of its kind for a community college in California. Read More »
Blackboard Updates Mobile Learning App
Blackboard Inc. — Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Blackboard Inc. announced new innovation and expanded access to its mobile learning application, Blackboard Mobile(TM) Learn, with an updated release that brings new features and capabilities to one of the industry's most widely adopted mobile apps, now in use at more than 500 institutions worldwide. Read More »
Macmillan Launches 2nd Generation of i>clicker
Macmillan — Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Macmillan’s new ventures group has released i>clicker2 – an enhanced version of its market leading student response system remote. With increased functionality, Macmillan’s i>clicker2 aims to improve the learning experience for students and instructors, while maintaining simplicity and reliability. Read More »
Community Colleges in 29 States To Pilot New Accountability System
American Association of Community Colleges — Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The nation's community colleges are taking a major step forward in redefining what "success" means for their institutions with the naming this week of 40 pilot colleges to test drive a new Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA), a national system designed to provide accurate data, operational transparency, and the ability for colleges to benchmark student progress and completion data against peer institutions. Read More »
Community Source Initiative Delivers New Enhancements to Banner Human Resources
SunGard Higher Education — Tuesday, January 04, 2011
SunGard Higher Education has released a new version of its Banner Human Resources (HR) system, which is designed to improve business processes and efficiencies through automation. Three of the new enhancements were driven by customer input and collaboration through the SunGard Higher Education Community Source Initiative. Read More »
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