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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Survey Reports Many Online Learners Never Seek Help Before Dropping Out</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/3241</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Among online students who dropped out of their degree or certificate programs, 40 percent failed to seek any help or resources before abandoning their programs, according to a recent EducationDynamics survey. Conducted in November 2008 among about 150 respondents who visited EducationDynamics&#8217; sites eLearners.com and EarnMyDegree.com, the survey was designed to identify students&#8217; motivations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCCC: Data Cleansing key To Managing Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/nccc-data-cleansing-key-to-managing-growth</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Community colleges are in a good spot in some ways during the economic downturn, as tight family budgets drive up the appeal of the community college option. But along with the rest of higher education, most community colleges also face shrinking IT budgets and tighter resources. That makes it that much harder to handle the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/top-10-threats-to-computer-systems-include-professors-and-students</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen McDowell spent several days this fall dressed in a purple fish costume, holding a plastic spear.
Ms. McDowell, a network-security analyst at the University of Virginia, wanted to raise awareness about &#8220;phishing,&#8221; e-mail schemes in which con artists send messages to trick people into giving out passwords or other personal information. Ms. McDowell walked around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Digital Technology Has Changed The Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/how-digital-technology-has-changed-the-brain</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last spring, I met with the management and academic leadership of Florida State University to talk about the future of higher education. I was there to share my views on pedagogy and how it needed to change now that the interactive, user-generated Web has altered the way an entire generation learns and thinks. 
One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Share Exams Online</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/students-share-exams-online</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos. Music. Irrelevant video clips. For years, college students have shared them all on the Internet. Now, they&#8217;re using the same medium to swap notes, tests, and quizzes—a trend that has caught the wary eye of profs whose materials are being uploaded and school officials who worry about cheating. 
In recent years, several Web sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Twitter really is worth the trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/yes-twitter-really-is-worth-the-trouble</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our resident student blogger, Zack Whittaker, asked a question this morning that caught my eye: “Twitter: is there any point?” My answer, as a growing devotee of Twitter and other bits of social media is, “Of course there’s a point!” Even for Ed Tech, I maintain that Twitter, and Twitter-like services, can have a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ways Not To Become Rote Using Instructional Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/6-ways-not-to-become-rote-using-instructional-technology</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While with any new technology there is a period of nervousness for teachers (more than students) in terms of training, course preparation, and implementation, if the nervous state of use quickly becomes habit, then the use of technology can become rote and meaningless for the student.  Just as we all became so obsessed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wimba Collaboration Suite Enhances Moodle Integration</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/wimba-collaboration-suite-enhances-moodle-integration</link>
		<comments>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/wimba-collaboration-suite-enhances-moodle-integration#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wimba recently announced that it&#8217;s expanded its support for Moodle, the popular open source learning management system. The enhanced support is designed to make it easier to integrate the Wimba Collaboration Suite in Moodle environments and broaden the features available, including a new new voice-mail feature that instructors and students can use to talk (literally) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas A&#038;M Video Campaign Shows New Face of Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/texas-am-video-campaign-shows-new-face-of-marketing</link>
		<comments>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/texas-am-video-campaign-shows-new-face-of-marketing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a move that will certainly be echoed by other institutions if it hasn&#8217;t been already, Texas A&#038;M University just launched a new microsite specifically to let students post YouTube-style videos showing what life as an Aggie is all about. The site, along with a new Facebook profile, is part of a university marketing campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Space profiles send teacher to unemployment line, court</title>
		<link>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/my-space-profiles-send-teacher-to-unemployment-line-court</link>
		<comments>http://www.cvc.edu/faculty/news/posts/my-space-profiles-send-teacher-to-unemployment-line-court#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raquel Rios</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every teacher wants to be the cool guy, the Robin-Williams-in-Dead-Poet&#8217;s-Society friend to students, but a court case from Connecticut offers a lesson to teachers-in-training: be careful when you buddy up to students online. While sites like MySpace make it easy to engage in casual contact with students, they also make it easy for the contact [...]]]></description>
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