I recently read “The Civil Classroom in the Age of the Net” by P.M. Forni, which appeared in the fall 2008 issue of The NEA Higher Education Journal: Thought & Action. Forni discusses the issue of disengaged students in higher education, and offers some sage advice for responding to the many challenges which face today’s [...]
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The Civil Classroom…
Posted in Critical Thinking, Library Instruction on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clouds on the Horizon – Part 1
Posted in Ken's Tech Update, Technology, tagged cloud computing on January 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The New Media Consortium (NMC) recently presented their 2009 short list (http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/2009_Shortlist), and one of the topics being considered to be adopted within the next year is “Cloud Computing.” Cloud computing is a service or application that is provided over the Internet, while all the software and data is stored online. Cloud computing also allows [...]