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Student-athletes might soon be able to use online classes to be eligible for competition. The NCAA will next week decide on a proposal that would allow student-athletes to take these classes to meet the minimum full-time enrollment requirement. Currently, student-athletes can take online classes as long as they are enrolled in at least 13 credits of classroom-based courses.  View Original Article
IQity is a Platinum Sponsor of the T+L Conference and will be hosting an exciting special event on Wednesday evening. We’ll be going to the Experience Music Project, a unique Seattle venue dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in popular music. Interactive displays and the opportunity to see cutting-edge technology will be paired with a live band, dancing and refreshments, so conference attendees can mix networking and fun.If you’ll be at the conference, don’t miss the party, and be sure to ask me how IQity can bring technology and learning to your school.
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College students always have an iPod within arm’s reach. They spend hours watching videos on YouTube, and send text messages and e-mails at a pace older folks can’t comprehend. Edison State College is saying: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. So, professors are posting video and audio of their lectures on iTunes. Students are videotaping themselves giving speeches, then downloading them to YouTube  View Original Article
YouTube, Podcasting, Blogs, Wikis and RSS are buzz words currently associated with the term Web 2.0 and represent a shifting pedagogical paradigm for the use of a new set of tools within education.
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Today’s accelerating adoption of open source software (OSS), and the shift from desktop to web applications increasingly built on top of OSS, is being embraced by individuals, the nonprofit sector, and small, midsize, and even enterprise businesses. As more of us get connected via the Internet and through web applications, seek ways to make our collaboration more powerful and shift our old
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College students always have an iPod within arm’s reach. They spend hours watching videos on YouTube, and send text messages and e-mails at a pace older folks can’t comprehend. Edison State College is saying: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. So, professors are posting video and audio of their lectures on iTunes. Students are videotaping themselves giving speeches, then downloading them to YouTube View Original Article
I recently conducted a short classroom training session on ARCS Model of Motivational Design and Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction Model for instructional designers in my division. As an assignment post the training session, I asked the participants to read the blog by Donald Clark titled, Gagne’s Nine Dull Commandments. Although the blog is a bit dated, the content is relevant every time we discuss Gagne’s events of instruction.
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Louisiana Tech President Dan Reneau proudly announced the establishment of the Global_Campus at the university’s fall faculty and staff luncheon on Tuesday, September 16.
Under the leadership of Dr. James Smith, Global_Campus will be a highly interactive, electronic learning platform that will allow Louisiana Tech to combine its academic and faculty strengths with the power and convenience of the  View Original Article
Has digital overload made today’s generation of students stupid or smart? Two experts debate this question in their respective new books.  View Original Article
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