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Technology doesn’t isolate
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Contrary to popular belief, the Internet and mobile phones are not isolating people but enhancing their social worlds, according to a U.S. survey.
The survey was sparked by a 2006 study by U.S. sociologists who argued technology is advancing a trend seen since 1985 — Americans becoming more socially isolated, their social networks shrinking, and the diversity of their contacts decreasing.By Belinda Godlsmith
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College on Demand
Doug Ruschman knows that his job is as much about understanding how college students think as it is about knowing how technology works.
Ruschman, director for web services at Xavier University, a medium-sized Jesuit university in Cincinnati, is realistic when assessing his customers’ psyches. He knows that students today have been raised in a world where access to information is instantaneous, and that downtime — even a small amount — might turn them off permanently.
Karen D. Schwartz
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Moodlerooms announces joule platform at EDUCAUSE
In more EDUCAUSE news, Moodlerooms, introduced its joule Learning Management Platform today. While Moodle is well-known open source technology in educational circles, many institutions lack the time or internal expertise to fully leverage its capabilities. Moodlerooms has filled the gap, providing Moodle implementations in a variety of settings. Now, however, many of the features that users either built themselves or found via third parties are integrated into the company’s joule platform.
By Christopher Dawson
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Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech
While students and faculty seem to agree on the importance of technology in education, the two groups do not agree on how well it’s being implemented. According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors “understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes.” Students also rated that lack of understanding as “the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration.”
By David Nagel
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Online Education, Growing Fast, Eyes the Truly ‘Big Time’
Orlando, Fla. — Online education is a runaway best seller. Its growth rate — 12.9 percent — dwarfs the overall pace of academe’s student expansion. More than 25 percent of all students may have taken at least one online class this year, according to a speculative estimate suggested at a distance-education conference that wraps up here today.
by Marc Parry
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