I believe you are using the teaching tool of the century in its infancy. A business I recently consulted with was using social networks to deliver educational materials on selling medical, dental insurance, and travel health insurance to its sales staff. The staff was given reading materials, videos, audio files, and… Continue

Facebook has been making many inroads into education over the last few years. Many institutions are using Facebook sites to publicize events on campus, as well as to aid in their recruiting.

As well, many students, instructors and administrators are using a number of Facebook applications for a wide variety of academic purposes. Recently we’ve been examining a number of Facebook apps that are relevant for educational use.

We’ve assembled a small list of 20 facebook apps here and are happy to h… Continue

Like most Ops managers, I’ve come across and dealt with my fair share of IT disasters. I’ve gone the route of hiring an in-house staff, only to realize that it exhausted my budget and half the time I was paying for employees to sit around and wait for a disaster to strike. I’ve also gone the route of hiring an outside company to run my IT support, again only to find that I was being overcharged at every turn and I had no REAL immediate support, more like we were put into a “Queue” and when our n… Continue

Various resources regarding online teaching & learning

The Times Higher Education rankings have been released today, and we’re very excited to see a client of ours, University of Cambridge has moved up to #2 ranking globally. Harvard maintains it #1 ranking and Yale comes in at #3.

Rather than quibble about where you school ranks, I’m curious if you believe such rankings are important and offer value. Did you or your children use lists like this to help decide which school to attend? Let us know what you think.

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