The New Media Consortium has released its 2010 Horizon Report. This annual reports seeks to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on research and teaching and learning. The report is produced as a collaboration between the New...
For faculty who like Wikispaces, but prefer a more "dashing" color palate and layout, wikispaces.com has just added new tools to the service that facilitate simple theme and color-scheme customizations. If you would like to give it a try in...
Many instructors invite guest lecturers or students to participate in their courses. In most cases, this is a straightforward affair: the faculty member simply accesses the course management system's control panel and adds the guest's UNI (Columbia University Network ID)...
There are a few important changes to CourseWorks (Columbia's current learning management system) and Sakai (the system that is slated to replace CourseWorks in the future) for the spring 2010 that help streamline the use of both systems. CourseWorks has...
The Educause Center for Applied Research has released a research bulletin, "Capturing Lectures: A Sticky Wicket" by Joshua Kim, Dartmouth College. ECAR Abstract: "this research bulletin describes how the formerly separate domains of lecture capture technologies and the emerging options...
The Columbia on YouTube EDU channel was selected as one of a limited set of partner channels to feature YouTube's new automatic captioning services. See our news posting announcing this release. These new features are Automatic Captions & Automatic Timing....
YouTube Time- If you'd like to quickly generate a new link to a YouTube video that specifies a particular starting point within the video, try YouTube Time. Just insert a link to a YouTube video on this website, then specify...
BookGlutton offers a number of interesting options for ebook aficionados. First, it is a self-contained epub format reader for your browser. It offers a simple, clean, and effective online reading option, similar to what you find on an iPhone...
More and more people are carrying portable media players or smartphones with them wherever they go. Two-thirds of all undergraduates own (or plan to own within the next twelve months) a Web-enabled device (according to this ECAR report). If you...
PolicyMap is a geographic information system and data analytics web service that allows users to access a powerful mapping and data tool that can produce custom maps, reports, charts and data analytics through a simple web interface. Data describing...
