CURRENT ARTICLE • July 29

SUNY ITEC Chooses Ensemble Video Multi-Tenant Platform for University-Wide Video CMS

The State University of New York (SUNY) Information Technology Exchange Center (ITEC) today announced its acquisition of the Ensemble Video platform. Ensemble Video will provide streamlined video content management and publishing capabilities throughout the nation’s largest comprehensive system of higher education.

Read more ›

OTHER RECENT ARTICLES

AcademicPub Introduces Express Books Enabling Educators to Self-Publish

AcademicPubTM, the world's largest provider of copyright-cleared content for digital and printed course packs in higher education, today announced the launch of Express BooksTM, enabling professors to self-publish. The announcement was made by Caroline Vanderlip, CEO, of AcademicPub parent SharedBook Inc.

Read More ›

i>clicker Announces Release of i>clicker GO, Now Offers Mobile-Friendly Hybrid Response Solution

i>clicker, one of the most widely used student response systems in higher education, today announced the release of i>clicker GO, a mobile response solution that transforms laptops, smartphones and tablets into student response devices. i>clicker GO is available for purchase at https://www.iclickergo.com or as an app from the iTunes and Google Play app stores.

Read More ›

AcademicPub, Getty Images Partner to Give Educators Easy, Legal Access to Images

Getty Images, one of the world's leading creators and distributors of imagery, video and other multimedia products has partnered with AcademicPubTM, a technology platform which enables faculty to create customized course packs with real-time selection of copyright-cleared content from multiple publishers and sources.

Read More ›

Blackboard Launches Mosaic, a Web-Based Platform That Lets Institutions Rapidly Issue High-Quality Apps

Blackboard today unveiled Mosaic™, a unique platform that gives schools and universities a radically different approach to deploying mobile apps. While institutions can spend months developing apps and lack flexibility to make changes once they've launched, Mosaic greatly simplifies the process so that people with very limited technology experience can create, deploy and update high-quality, device-specific apps in minutes or days.

Read More ›

AspirEDU Attains Certified Partner Status with Canvas by Instructure

AspirEDU, a company specializing in data driven educational analytics, announced that it has attained Certified Partner status with Canvas, joining the ranks of other Canvas partners such as Pearson, McGraw Hill, Wiley and Adobe. Canvas by Instructure is a cloud native learning management system (LMS) used every day by more than 400 colleges, universities and school districts. In addition, the Cisco Networking Academy selected Canvas to power “The World’s Largest Classroom.”

Read More ›

Panopto and Instructure Expand Integration between Lecture Capture and Learning Management Systems

Video platform provider Panopto today announced a unique, expanded integration with Canvas, an easy-to-use learning management system (LMS) by Instructure, enabling educators and students one-click access to Panopto-recorded video lectures inside Canvas and enabling IT administrators one-click integration of all courses and lectures.

Read More ›

Student Demand for Online Courses May Not be as Strong as Colleges Think, New Study Finds

Most community colleges believe that student demand for fully online courses is outpacing the college’s supply, but a new study suggests that colleges may be overestimating students’ desire for more online learning, particularly in certain subjects.

Read More ›

Pearson Acquires Ed Tech Startup, Learning Catalytics

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, announced today that it has acquired Learning Catalytics™, an advanced, cloud-based learning analytics and assessment system developed by Eric Mazur, Brian Lukoff, and Gary King of Harvard University.

Read More ›

Colleges Moving Slowly Toward State Authorization Compliance or Opting Out of States

A growing number of colleges obtained the necessary approvals in states in which they serve distance students, but many have a long way to go. As an alternative to seeking approval, an increasing number of institutions no longer accept students from some states. These are the findings of a survey of nearly 200 colleges conducted jointly by three leading distance education organizations.

Read More ›