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People-Powered Customer Service for California Community Colleges Ask a question, share an idea, or report a problem. Get Satisfaction support network Go back to CVC MyEdu Partnership & Pilot Go to Pilot FAQs What is MyEdu? Today’s college students are confronted with a number of difficult challenges: succeeding in class, graduating on time, rising tuition [...]

What is the pilot? What are the benefits of  joining the pilot? Who is in the pilot? What is the term of the pilot? What is the cost to participate in the pilot? If the service is free, how does MyEdu generate revenue? What is required of the pilot colleges? What are the responsibilities of [...]

The California Virtual Campus is partnering with MyEdu to connect California students to courses and degree planning resources in an effort to (1) increase academic success, (2) reduce time-to-degree, (3) improve degree completion rates, and (4) increase 4-year transfer rates. This partnership leverages MyEdu’s services and technologies to create strong connections between students, counselors, and [...]

http://sloanconsortium.org/aln Nov 9-11, 2011 Orlando Florida The 17th Annual Sloan-C International Conference invites you to submit your proposal; conference tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and effective practices in the following areas: K-12 Online Education Faculty and Professional Development and Support Open Educational Resources Learning Effectiveness Technology and Emerging Learning Environments Student Services and Learner [...]

Academia.edu is a free social networking website and collaboration tool aimed at academics and researchers from all disciples. You can specify your interests (e.g., social networking), and join the existing community discussion around that interest. You can also increase your visibility in the academic community by adding your papers and publications for the community’s review. [...]

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This article by Brian Croxall in the ProfHacker column of the Chronicle of Higher Education (6/7/10),  reflects on the use of social media tools in a humanities course. Tools used included: twitter; Google Wave; wikis; Zotero, the Firefox plugin for collecting, managing, citing, and sharing research; and Google Docs. Reflections on Teaching with Social Media

An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 2010) describes a survey by the Babson Survey Research Group in collaboration with New Marketing Labs and Pearson, which found that more than 80 percent of college faculty are using social media, with more than half using these tools as part of their teaching, according to [...]

Students are taking the battle against high-priced textbooks into their own hands. This week, 11 University of Cincinnati seniors in the psychology program presented at an Educause event a comparison of the content of traditional college texts, one of which costs $168, to content they found for free on the Web. The research effort was [...]

WCET Conference is Now Open! The 23rd Annual WCET Conference will take place October 26-29 at the Denver City Center Marriott in downtown Denver, CO! WCET invites you to share some of the innovative concepts, good practices, new research findings that are making a difference in how technology advances higher education. Submit a conference presentation [...]