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Instead of a Facebook news feed cluttered with tidbits about friends’ FarmVille progress, Boris Revsin wants a social media site that alerts college students to the latest in academic news from their peers – information that could connect students and form study groups.
New software coming this fall will enable Livescribe’s digital “smart” pens to stream all notes taken live, in real time, to a computer—turning special dotted paper into an inexpensive digital tablet, the company says.
Officials at Northern Arizona University are reminding students that faculty members have the choice to use new electronic scanners that track class attendance at the campus’s largest lecture halls, but some students continue their vocal opposition to the technology as the fall semester gets underway.
Social media already are ingrained in most college students’ personal lives, and now some college professors are using social media as a tool to help students create professional connections and build valuable workplace skills.
Officials from open-license textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge say more than 1,300 instructors at 800 colleges and universities will use their books this fall semester—doubling the 400 institutions that used Flat World texts a year ago.
An advanced ventilation system that adjusts airflow according to outdoor temperatures and how many people are in a room could help the Massachusetts Institute of Technology save $100,000 annually as the university continues to trim its energy use.
Seton Hill University, one of the first campuses to board the Apple iPad bandwagon before the device was released in April, announced Aug. 23 that its art history students would use an iPad application that allows access to more than 40,000 sculptures and paintings.
College students have to know which data are most vulnerable before they can protect their identity online. The creators of a new software program that fights identity theft say it can do just that, and some of the most well respected universities are listening.
Sundar Nathan was a college student prepping for an exam, cramming hundreds of pieces of information into his overfilled memory bank when he resorted to flashcards—a strategy he’s evangelized forever since.
Facebook’s opt-in feature that lets friends check each other’s locations could be useful for colleges and universities tracking the most popular campus destinations, but social media experts said students haven’t yet embraced geo-tagging in any form.
