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Lessons from Dewitt by Mike Chapple
Recently the higher education IT community suffered a great loss when Dewitt Latimer was tragically taken from us after a motorcycle accident in Montana. The news of Dewitt’s accident spread quickly through the institutions he served: Clemson, Kent State, the University of Tennessee, Notre Dame, and Montana State. This quickly led to an outpouring of stories on social media and mailing lists from those who knew Dewitt and the impact he had on higher education IT.
I first met...
Collaboration Enables Next-Generation Digital Learning
By Rob Abel, Marwin Britto, Patrick Masson, and John Johnston
The growing emergence of digital devices, learning platforms, and applications promises easier access to a variety of content, increased productivity, and the realization of personalized...
HEEMAC 2013 Conference Sessions from Daphne Hunt
Daphne J. Hunt, University Web Administrator in the Office of Web Services at Tarleton University, recently shared an article she wrote summarizing a few of what she considers the best sessions of HEEMAC 2013. Thank you to Daphne for sharing her thoughts with those of us who did not attend this conference. Those who have done something similar for various conferences they attended have helped build a wonderful (but definitely distributed...
Fulbright Scholar Program Also Serves Learning Technologists
by Meg Stewart
“The world is changing. Our disciplines are changing. Our students are changing. But is higher education keeping pace?...For education to do better we cannot just keep doing the same things.” —Diana Oblinger
Professional development within and around international educational exchanges might become essential as we...
What I Learned in Jail
"Are we going to do collage?" asked a large man in a blue jumpsuit and day-glo orange tennis shoes.
"No, I don't think we'll be doing any collage, at least not for now, Bob. Sorry."
It was the first day of my first class at the local county jail. I'd signed on as a...
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