The higher ed technology group Educause on Wednesday released its based on the results of its “Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report,” annual survey of 930 colleges and universities. This year’s installment focuses on information technology trends on campuses between 2004 and 2008. Centralized IT funding rose, but only in proportion to enrollment and inflation. Outsourcing became more popular: In 2008, 70 percent of colleges used an external supplier for at least one IT function, and the use of homegrown systems decreased for all categories except library information systems. Colleges have increasingly turned to commercial vendors for learning management systems and e-mail clients, with a number of campuses considering dropping institutional e-mail addresses altogether, the report says.
(Link: EDUCAUSE – Core Data Survey)
EDUCAUSE – Core Data Survey
October 29, 2009
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Voice Mac – Google Voice App
October 29, 2009
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Description
Voice Mac is a client for Google Voice the features are described below.
Short Message Service (SMS).
Voicemail.
Calling people using your forwarding phones.
Contact list with the options of Google Contacts or Address Book.
Contact Filter.
Growl for SMS and Voicemail.
SMS History so you can go and view old SMS.
(Link: Voice Mac – Google Voice App)
Underscore.js
October 29, 2009
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Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.
Underscore provides 44-odd functions that support both the usual functional suspects: map, select, invoke — as well as more specialized helpers: function binding, javascript templating, deep equality testing, and so on. It delegates to built-in functions, if present, so JavaScript 1.6 compliant browsers will use the native implementations of forEach, map, filter, every, some and indexOf.
(Link: Underscore.js)
Wax Make iPhone + REST apps easy
October 28, 2009
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One of my favorite parts about Wax is how easy HTTP calls are, especially to REST APIs. Basically, to make an HTTP request you just need this code…
(Link: Wax Make iPhone + REST apps easy)
Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company | VentureBeat
October 28, 2009
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Zuckerberg: At first it was very simple. Just 10,000 lines of code maybe. There were profiles. And you could poke people. That was important. The idea is launch early and iterate. Early on, I didn’t just start Facebook as a company. It was a project that I wanted to exist. It’s amazing how much stuff we messed up.
(Link: Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company | VentureBeat)
Why Hasn't Mobile Learning Gained Traction? – Inside Higher Ed
October 28, 2009
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Google mobile learning and you get 103 million hits. At EDUCAUSE.edu, the same search results in 4,060 hits, including articles in EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review. Browse through the EDUCAUSE 2009 conference site and you will discover mobile learning will be one of the dominant themes at this years conference.
There seems to be a disconnect between our excitement and the reality of mobile learning.
(Link: Why Hasn’t Mobile Learning Gained Traction? – Inside Higher Ed)
Retrospectiva / Smarter Project Management
October 28, 2009
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It has 3 main modules:
* ticketing: to manage issues/requests
* code review / revision management: supports Subversion & Git)
* milestones / goals: to set & manage objectives for the project
And, comes with various add-ons like:
* wiki: manage documentation
* blog: to interact with the community, make announcements.
* agilePM: comprehensive support for your agile development process
* & more, which can be found in the wiki’s installation pages.
(Link: Retrospectiva / Smarter Project Management)
E-Learning's 'Third Phase' – Inside Higher Ed
October 28, 2009
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SunGard Higher Education is today announcing plans to integrate Epsilen, a learning-based social networking platform, into its learning-management system. The partnership will give SunGard clients access to Epsilen’s collaboration and e-portfolio tools — as well as 158 years’ worth of digital archives of The New York Times, whose parent company owns the majority share of Epsilen.
(Link: E-Learning’s ‘Third Phase’ – Inside Higher Ed)
Quickly Deliver courses online with the JumpBox for rSmart Sakai
October 28, 2009
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Sakai is an Open Source collaborative learning environment that contains everything necessary to deliver an effective eLeaning program. The JumpBox packages the rSmart distribution of Sakai which is a refined version of the Open source Sakai project with enhancements like additional modules and an improved user interface. Sakai can be used to deliver an entirely online learning experience or used as a supplement to traditional in-person coursework. Some of the more notable features include:
(Link: Quickly Deliver courses online with the JumpBox for rSmart Sakai)
Juice – the javascript web framework
October 28, 2009
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Juice is a server-side web framework built around CommonJS modules and specifically the JSGI 0.3 proposal. Its an open-source stack released under the MIT license that comes bundled with its own development server and a javascript interpreter.
CommonJS aims to bring some portability to the world of serverside javascript, and the Juice core is no different. Right now we’ve only checked that it runs on Flusspferd (the JS interpreter based on spidermonkey that comes bundled in the dists) but in the future we’ll make sure the Juice stack runs portably across all conforming CommonJS implementations
(Link: Juice – the javascript web framework)
