10 gaming trends that are transforming higher ed — onlinecolleges.net

Excerpt:

Video games don’t always enjoy the greatest of reputations, though their ubiquity and decade-spanning permanence keeps garnering them more and more mainstream acceptance as years tick past — to the point where many academics and institutes of higher education open their arms to their learning potential. While these digital technologies only trickle slowly into college and university classrooms, it seems as if they won’t be exiting anytime soon. Whether trendy, soon-to-be-trendy or a possible future trend, some of the amazing ways education professionals use video games definitely deserve consideration.

4 university libraries move down the virtualization path — from ConvergeMag.com by Tanya Roscorla

 

Profile of teachers in the United States -- 2011

 

Addendum on 8/7/11:

Hub Life: Insights that shape campus spaces — from Herman Miller

 

 

Aruba MOVE delivers high-quality video simultaneously to 100 iPads in a single classroom at the University of Ottawa — from ArrubaNetworks.com
Multimedia applications included Apple Facetime and AirPlay, Blackboard Mobile™ Learn, Distribution Access Learning, HaiVision and Turning Technologies

Excerpt:

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 13, 2011 – Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) today announced that it and several application partners delivered the next-generation classroom experience at the University of Ottawa. Validated by the university information technology (IT) department, the classroom experience consisted of six leading multimedia educational applications delivered to 100 iPads, concurrently. Each of the applications was delivered simultaneously to all 100 iPads with the highest quality and without any noticeable jitter, delay or frame loss. 100 percent of the iPads passed the multimedia Service Level Agreement (SLA), as measured by VeriWave WaveInsite, which was also used to objectively verify sustained performance of 1Mbps of multimedia streaming to each iPad.

From DSC:
I think there may be something here for the Smart Classrooms of the future. I can’t help but think of some of our courses in astronomy, for example, and that I think that sometimes we are using the wrong technologies to display images and videos to our students. Without investing an enormous amount of money on very high-end projection systems, we lose too much detail with a variety of images that feature galaxies, constellations, etc. with a projected image.

What about if a student could control where they want to zoom in on an image — and not lose any resolution or brightness? What about if they had such high res images available for viewing directly on their iPads? Sounds very interesting to me.

Also see:

  • Haivision Acquires KulaByte and MontiVision; Forms Internet Media Division
    Haivision driving toward $50 million revenue with new division combining Internet streaming and cloud transcoding to enable over-the-top media delivery
    MONTREAL and CHICAGO
    July 21, 2011  Haivision Network Video, a leading provider of the most advanced video networking, digital signage, and IP video distribution solutions, today announced that it has acquired both KulaByte Corporation of San Marcos, Texas, and MontiVision Imaging Technologies based in Germany. The technologies of both companies, including advanced encoding, transcoding, cloud computing, and workflow solutions, will be combined to form Haivision’s new Internet Media Division.

 

 

Wikipedia to launch article-quality ranking system — from digitaltrends.com by Andrew Couts

 

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Some excerpts from SmartDesks.com — my thanks to Mr. Cal Keen at Calvin College for these resources

 

Equator™ Conference Table

 

Equator™ Conference Table with Wings Raised

 

MacTable™ for iMac and Mac Pro Computers

 

 

Quark™ Mobile Computer Table

 

 

Collab Tables by CBT SMARTdesks installed in Learning Center Studio Space

 

Nice elevated flooring design here:

 

Nice raising flooring example from SmartDesks.com

 

Addendum later on 7/18/11:

 

  • Get the Most Out of Your Learning Space — from Chief Learning Office by Natalie Morera
    Corporations can learn much from higher education institutions when it comes to utilizing physical learning spaces. When used properly, they can facilitate better learning.

 

New ways of learning effects library design — Aaron Cohen Associates

Excerpt:

Technology has impacted the way we use library collections. It has impacted the way we interact in the library building. The landscape of learning has changed so much that we need to ask – “Is someone literate if they can not use digital technology?”

New ways of learning effect library learning spaces
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Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century.

Teaching students to be multimedia storytellers — from Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning

From DSC:
With a special congrats out to Laura Fleming on her curation efforts:

We wanted to point Spotlight readers to a new, powerful collection on the National Writing Project’s Digital Is website. Reading and Writing Transmedia is curated by Laura Fleming, a library media specialist in River Edge, N.J., who blogs regularly about the connection between transmedia and education.

The Futurist interviews librarian futurist David Lankes — from The World Future Society (July 2011 Update)

Libraries Move Beyond Books
As more information moves online, traditional libraries are losing relevance, but librarians are becoming more important than ever. This is according to R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship (MIT Press, 2011). Himself a librarian—he is the director of Syracuse University’s Library and Information Science Program and an associate professor in Syracuse’s School of Information Studies—Lankes sees librarians’ roles evolving into that of “facilitators of conversation” who interact with their communities to support each one’s informational and learning needs. Rick Docksai, staff editor for THE FUTURIST, spoke with Lankes about his book and his views on libraries’ future.

I predict that the future is going to be fewer libraries and more librarians. The facility is transitioning from places where librarians do their work and to places where communities meet and gather. The physical space is simply where the librarians sit. The electronic medium is where they can research and read.

 

Addendum later on 6/28/11:

The digital era needs human guides: Why your school should keep, not cut, the Librarian — from Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning

Powermat and Bretford -- wireless charging for learning spaces

 

Bretford -- Edu 2.0 announcements - June 2011

 

 

 

From DSC:
I hesitated in posting this because I don’t know what the future will tell us re: the use of wireless technologies. But for now, the majority of the tests/research that I’ve seen assert that we are not in much danger from using wireless technologies. (I just hope this arena doesn’t turn out to be another Philip Morris type of move from the manufactures/companies selling these items.)

 

The Copyright Rebellion — from The Chronicle
New lawsuits and policies have hobbled teaching and research. Now scholars are pushing back.

The Copyright Rebellion 1

Chronicle illustration by Bob McGrath

The digital age was supposed to put information at our fingertips. Books and data and images on an Internet browser would be just a click away.

Instead, scholars are being denied access to millions of books. Images are not being distributed. Two major universities face lawsuits by book and video publishers for using digital copies in courses. And the U.S. Congress has placed behind the wall of copyright many items that used to be in the public domain.

Also see:

Online :: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EDT :: July 26 & 28, 2011

Designing learning spaces — from Edmagine, posted by sonsangnim

Some of the links mentioned:

 

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