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Bossier Parish Community College: Improving Developmental Education with MOOCs, Mobile Apps, and Asynchronous Learning

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SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION SERIES The US Department of Education has awarded multi-million dollar “First in the World” grants to 18 colleges and universities that are innovating to solve critical challenges with access, recruitment, retention, and student success. At AI, we have interviewed each of the recipients to learn more about the projects these institutions are pursuing, […]

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Creating a Responsive Design Framework for University Websites Digital Recording

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Do you want your institution’s Web content to be accessible anywhere by all of your audiences? Is managing the content on multiple sites or apps for multiple devices taking too much time? Are you considering using responsive design to make your institution’s websites accessible on any device but not sure how or where to start? […]

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Sponsored Article: Practical Strategies for Segmenting Your Enrollment Marketing

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SPONSORED ARTICLE This article is sponsored by the Campus Media Group. Our sponsored articles feature the expert advice or case studies of thought leaders at companies serving the higher-ed industry. If your company is engaged in research serving higher education or is helping institutions innovate to solve the pressing challenges of today and you would like […]

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Help Your Faculty Manage Online Workload

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PRACTICAL STRATEGIES In this updated and revised edition of a popular 2009 article from Academic Impressions, we have turned to Larry Ragan and Susan Ko for tips on how department chairs and faculty developers can help faculty manage online workload. We hope you will also invite your faculty to review our recorded webcast, Managing […]

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Mobile Learning: 5 Student Safety and Privacy Risks Every Educator Should Know

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As mobile learning and remote teaching increase in popularity, so do concerns regarding personal safety and privacy. As you pilot mobile projects in your classes, are you considering how those projects impact both privacy and security? During a recent webcast, Academic Impressions conversed with mobile learning veterans Stephen Baldridge, assistant professor and baccalaureate program director […]

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Identifying the Untapped Potential of Mobile Devices on Campus

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January 18, 2013. “Missed Opportunities” Interviewing a range of experts in the use of mobile technologies in enrollment, teaching and learning, and alumni relations during the closing months of 2012, we found consensus on several points: Many institutions still limit their use of mobile technologies to replicate what they already do or provide through other, […]

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Your Campus Website: Why Responsive Design May Be Your Next Step

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Recent projections by technology researchers confirm that mobile devices and tablets are seeing rapid adoption — and that more prospective students and alumni are first viewing your institution’s website from a mobile device. For example, market research firm IDC reported last year that by 2015 in the US, more people will access online content through […]

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Survey Report: Online Giving, Mobile Apps

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Market research firm IDC projected last year that by 2015 in the US, more people will access online content through mobile devices than through wired Internet connections, and many institutions are reporting sharp increases in the web traffic they are seeing from mobile devices. For example, Brett Pollak, director of the campus web office for […]

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Showcase: Examples of Mobile Technology Used for Teaching and Learning

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With more students bringing smartphones and tablets to campus — and expecting to access information and course content via mobile devices — it continues to be urgent for faculty developers and instructional technologists to explore the affordances of these devices and the opportunities for using them to enhance teaching and learning. In our past article, […]

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Course Materials for Mobile Devices:
Key Considerations

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In the past term, Duke University piloted a course in introductory chemistry that replaced the standard textbook and course materials with online, multimedia content collected by the instructor from open repositories, as well as materials developed by the instructor under creative commons. The content included video clips from recorded lectures, ePUB texts and PDF files, […]

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Marketing to Adult Students

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Increasingly, academic leaders are becoming aware that the traditional, 18-year-old high school graduate enrolling as a freshman at a four-year institution is a shrinking demographic. According to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES): Three-fourths of today’s college students are nontraditional 49 percent are enrolled part-time 38 percent work full-time 27 percent have dependents […]

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Including Social Media in Your Crisis Communications Plan

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In a 2009 interview with Academic Impressions, Cindy Lawson discussed some of the risks presented by social media in the event of a crisis, such as the potential for the rapid spread of misinformation. This week, we spoke with Lawson again to learn more about the opportunities social media channels present in the event of […]

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Five Tips for Making Your Website
Mobile-Friendly

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June 23, 2011. Last June, Ball State University released a study showing that of college students owning phones, 49 percent owned smartphones; the number had doubled since 2009. In the year since, many colleges and universities have launched mobile marketing initiatives or mobile apps for students and alumni. Among those efforts that have seen early gains: […]

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Piloting Mobile Learning

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The Urgency of Going Mobile Several recent reports have highlighted a rising rate of adoption for mobile devices: Gartner, this week, released a projection that tablet devices such as Apple’s iPad will see more than 19 million units sold worldwide this year, most of them in the US; Gartner also anticipates that this figure will […]

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Strategic Planning: Engaging Faculty and Other Stakeholders Early

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As July 2010 draws to a close, the news is full of reports of state budget shortfalls, belt-tightening initiatives to cope with the approaching demise of stimulus funding, and growing protests from faculty and staff as institutions make politically unpopular decisions in re-allocating increasingly scarce resources. In this environment, it is critical to engage as many stakeholders as […]

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Positioning IT as a Strategic Partner on Campus

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At a time when institutions of higher education are increasingly looking for technological solutions to strategic challenges, recent downgrades in the rank of the chief information officer at institutions such as MIT and the University of Chicago has sparked alarm in some quarters and a series of debates over whether the CIO may start to […]

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3 Questions to Answer Before a Wide-Scale Adoption of the iPad

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In a Campus Technology article this week entitled “CIO Predicament: What To Do About the iPad,” Tim Chester, CIO and vice provost for academic administration at Pepperdine University, recommended a middle ground between the opposing camps of those hurrying toward wide-scale adoption of the iPad and those refusing to support the new mobile device. While […]

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Considering Mobile Learning For
Your Institution

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A Campus Technology article this week highlighted both Abilene Christian University’s development of a homegrown mobile learning solution a few years ago and their current expansion of that mobile learning initiative to include classroom management, blogging, and (soon) mobile podcasting. While mobile learning continues to be a topic of interest among educators, very few institutions […]