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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Productivity Applications and Systems
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The iPad for Professors: Evaluating a Productivity Tool After One Year
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April 7, 2011
The ProfHacker has published a number of posts about Apple's first-generation iPad. Now that Apple has started selling the second-generation version, they thought it was time for the authors…
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A Cure For Meetings?
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March 15, 2010
Ohio State experiment suggests that wikis could let professors make decisions more collaboratively without gathering in the same room. Ohio Stat…
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Text Generation
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January 8, 2010
Will the decision of many college libraries to encourage students to text queries from their phones cheapen the research process, or rescue it? …
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Forward Into the Cloud
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September 30, 2009
With more students auto-forwarding e-mail to private accounts, even colleges that have not outsourced their e-mail find it difficult to keep correspondence on their own servers. …
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Colleges Warily Turn Sensitive E-Mail Over to Outside Companies
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September 22, 2009
Colleges began trying such free services for students a couple of years ago, but most college technology leaders thought they would never put their most sensitive accounts on the systems as well.…
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With Budget Crunch Hitting IT, Time to Rethink Role?
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December 11, 2008
Colleges’ information technology budgets aren’t immune to the economic downturn, and some CIOs see opportunity to streamline priorities and recast their mission. …
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Keeping Track of Students, and Staying in Touch
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August 15, 2008
A start-up company from a former Blackboard executive is positioning itself to help colleges boost retention with communication tools ... and lots of data. …
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Is Blackboard on Your BlackBerry Far Behind?
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January 15, 2008
Higher ed’s largest maker of course management systems acquires NTI Group, one of the top mass messaging providers. Higher ed’s largest maker…
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FCC asked to bar cellular carriers from blocking SMS traffic
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December 11, 2007
A handful of public-interest groups have filed a petition (PDF) with the Federal Communications Commission asking it to prevent cellular service providers from blocking text messages from adv…
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When E-Mail Is Outsourced
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November 27, 2007
As more colleges move to Google or Microsoft, institutions start to consider the educational implications of the shift. As more colleges move to …

















