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Nursing students can learn in a virtual world at UTA
In the virtual world, nurses in training from Texas, New York and Denmark can practice alongside other emergency personnel before an anthrax attack, pandemic or tornado grabs headlines.…
NASA invites students to design technologies for deep space
NASA is inviting college students to design technologies that can be integrated into a habitat in which future astronauts could live and work in deep space, the Washington Post reports.…
Amid Blackboard’s purchase of Moodlerooms, fear and loathing set in
The decision had been made, student information had been transferred, and faculty had been trained to use the Moodle learning management system hosted by Moodlerooms. Loyola University-Maryland had finally broken…
Flipped learning: Professor tested, student approved
Marcio Oliveira could see the benefits of his kinesiology course’s flipped learning approach with every new hand that popped up in the first minute of every class, as students peppered…
Google Art Project expands, with 32,000 works of art now online
Imagine pulling up a stool next to the lonely diners of Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" or dipping your fingers in the basin of "The Child's Bath" by Mary Cassatt.…
Colleges tap technology to prevent ‘burnout’ in nursing students
Relentless stress of on-the-job training and the looming specter of licensure examination have taken a toll on nursing students nationwide—a problem nursing school chiefs hope can be solved with an…
Moodlerooms CEO: Blackboard acquisition will expand open-source movement
Lou Pugliese, CEO of Moodlerooms, said Blackboard’s purchase of his company and another firm that hosts and supports the popular open-source learning management system (LMS) Moodle should be welcome news…
Students teach computer skills to older generation
Thirty senior citizens squeezed around a long table designed for about 20, the crush made tighter by canes, walkers, and wheelchairs. As late arrivals wriggled between others in search of…
After Gmail adoption, some college students aren’t making the switch
Gmail is unquestionably popular with college students, but IT staffers on some Google-friendly campuses have had to formulate carefully concocted public relations campaigns to get students to make the transition…
March Madness online streaming taxes campus networks
If Marquette University students weren’t on spring break this week, the school’s IT officials would have faced an internet bandwidth nightmare.…