eCampus News June 2011

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Highlights

23 eCN Special Feature
Cloud-computing security has been a concern for many IT folks, but that’s starting to change.

What´s News

1 College net price calculators don’t compute
1 Blackboard aims to reassure schools after $1.64B sale
1 HarperCollins’ eBook expirations rile librarians
1 More teens asking: College? Who needs it?
10 Critics question the value of for-profit colleges
11 MIT’s goal: Reach 1 billion with open courseware
12 New eLearning rules prompt call for cooperation
12 Texas colleges use private recruiters for online classes
13 Online nurse training feels old-school heat
14 Seton Hill survives the ‘iPad jitters’
14 Hood College: Freshman orientation and an iPad
15 Should profs be required to post their syllabi online?
16 Social media in higher education: Friend or foe?
16 ‘Geosocial networking’ links students offline
17 The 20 most Googled colleges: Skill or luck?
17 Google lures more schools with bigger eMail inboxes
18 Video lectures take on new risk as blogger targets profs
19 Lecture-capture technology used to proctor exams
19 New site lets students find low-cost textbooks, quickly
24 InfoComm 2011 reveals the future of AV technology

Departments

4 Online Update
6 Front Lines
26 Leading Edge
27 Stakeholder Relations
28 Teaching & Research
29 Money Matters
29 Law & Ethics
30 eCampus Security
30 Eye on the Ball
31 Product Spotlight
31 The Word
31 eCampus Partners

8 UNC-Chapel Hill is redesigning its computer labs and classroom spaces to reflect 21st-century needs and strategies.

Resources for this issue

29 Money Matters
For the latest campus funding news, see:
ecampusnews.eschoolmedia.com/category/funding

30 eCampus Security For more
on securing campus networks, go to:
ecampusnews.eschoolmedia.com/
technologies/campus-networksecurity-made-easy

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