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Tegrity Extends Award-Winning Class Capture Offering With Free Tegrity Lite Service and Lower Cost Classroom-Based Pricing
Tegrity — Saturday, July 04, 2009
Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture Web service for higher education, introduced a new three-tier pricing model today that makes it feasible for every college and university to benefit from the award-winning Tegrity lecture capture service. Read More »
Community College Research Center at Columbia Teachers College Gets Major Grant To Assess Strategies for Boosting Student Completion Rates
— Saturday, July 04, 2009
The Community College Research Center (CCRC), Teachers College, Columbia University, announced a three-year $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to carry out research to help identify the most productive investments in community colleges for the foundation’s Postsecondary Success (PS) initiative. Read More »
Stratford University Chooses SunGard Higher Education To Help Improve Administrative Services
SunGard Higher Education — Thursday, June 25, 2009
The solution will help improve the education experience for the University’s internal and external constituents while providing a foundation to support future enrollment growth. Read More »
Keystone Enterprise Services To Power Lehigh University’s Live Nationwide Distance Learning Via Satellite
Keystone Enterprise Services — Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Keystone Enterprise Services announced a strategic distance education partnership with Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lehigh University will enhance its distance learning educational program using Keystone’s interactive satellite-training network. Read More »
Pearson, University of Alabama Honored for Groundbreaking Use of Technology to Increase Student Achievement
Pearson — Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Pearson and the University of Alabama have received top honors from a consortium of the world's leaders in education and learning technology, in recognition of their innovative use of technology to improve math achievement. The award was presented during the IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual Learning Impact conference in Barcelona, Spain. Read More »
Pearson eCollege, Education Online Services Corp. Partner To Increase Access to Online Education for Diverse Populations
Pearson eCollege — Tuesday, June 16, 2009
EOServe Corp will use Pearson eCollege’s integrated education technology environment to offer students a robust and complete online learning solution, continuing a longstanding tradition on the part of both companies of broadening access to education for diverse markets. Read More »
University of Oregon Implements Web-Based Course Evaluation System From CollegeNET
CollegeNET, Inc. — Monday, June 15, 2009
CollegeNET, Inc., a provider of Web-based, on-demand technologies, announced that the University of Oregon has implemented CollegeNET’s What-Do-You-Think?™ Web-based course evaluation system to increase student participation, improve teaching and reduce paper workflow. Read More »
e-academy To Work with VMware To Provide Free Desktop Virtualization Software to the Global Education
e-academy Inc. — Saturday, June 13, 2009
VMAP is a comprehensive program that is designed specifically for the higher education academic community, where the program will offer free cutting-edge virtual server license software to all verified students and faculty world-wide. Read More »
Santa Clara University Announces the Deployment of TipNow™, a Text-Based Anonymous Reporting Tool
Resiligence, Inc. — Saturday, June 13, 2009
TipNow facilitates automated notification of campus security personnel regarding non-emergency suspicious activity which in the future could lead to human caused emergencies. The unique aspect of TipNow is its ability to encrypt the reporter's cell phone number or email id thereby guaranteeing the anonymity of the reporting user. Read More »
Juniper Networks Selected for 12-State Purchase Contract by Midwestern Higher Education Compact
Juniper Networks, Inc. — Thursday, June 04, 2009
The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC), one of four U.S. interstate compacts created to advance higher education through increased student access, research and policy analysis, and reduced administrative costs, has selected Juniper solutions for inclusion in the MHEC purchase order program. Read More »
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