4 ways universities can use the social media app Vine
Have you heard of Vine? Chances are you may have seen a cute six second video of a pet, toddler or food dish posted on a friend or…
Mobile Technology
Apps and analytics: The key to student engagement?
Bolstering engagement with students could hinge on how colleges and universities use real-time data. Insight into how, when, and even why students interact with campus technologies has become…
A new frame of reference through Google Glass
While wearing the Google Glass device, many of my experiences have focused primarily on subjective perspectives, like taking pictures, for instance. This is mainly because that part of…
Students can now skip the line without being a jerk
Everybody hates waiting in line, but nobody likes a line skipper. Thanks to a new partnership between Blackboard and Qless, students will be able to skip lines without…
5 ways mobile devices have (and haven’t) changed studying
College students now own an average of seven mobile devices, and spend nearly four hours a day interacting with their laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The bandwidth needs…
Is it hypocritical for universities to ban graduation ‘selfies’?
It’s almost that time of year again when scores of young adults enter the coming of age period when they graduate from college. What better way to celebrate…
Which schools will lead the pack in higher ed?
On April 30, Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New American Foundation and Arizona State University, will hold a conference in Washington, D.C., called “Hacking the University:…
Universities to explore Internet with…cars
Internet2 will provide electric vehicles to universities experimenting with the Internet of Things The nonprofit computer networking consortium Internet2 will provide electric vehicles to four colleges and universities…
How to save lives with social media
Dallas, Texas -- The night before Byron Piatt was scheduled to speak about campus emergencies at the 2014 ACUTA conference here, his campus was experiencing an emergency of…
Are campuses really mobile ready? And what does that mean?
It’s not news to say that the IT demands placed on campuses across the country are skyrocketing, thanks to student, and administrator, need for mobile devices and communications…