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Duke University has discovered that iPods are a hit in class. A year after the university gave all freshman students the little white music players, the number of students using iPods for class work has quadrupled, and the number of courses incorporating iPods has doubled, the university announced. The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Invasion of […]

The Emory Wheel Online reports that Emory University chemistry professor Justin Gallivan is offering enhanced podcasts of his chemistry classes available free via iTunes. Thomson Peterson’s–Syndication for Higher Ed–Emory Chemistry Professor Offers Enhanced Podcasts Not in the law school, but close. Good article that highlights the benefits of podcasting as a supplement for students who […]

California recently adopted a law that stiffens data-security requirements for academic researchers who work with confidential information about human subjects. Some observers predict that other states will follow suit. (The Chronicle, subscription required) The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Safeguards for Personal Data This new law covers data provided by state agencies to non-profit research orgainzations […]

PennTags lets you organize and share your bookmarks. You can use the UPennToolbar or the PennTags Bookmarklet to post websites into your tagspace. PennTags / This is intriguing.  A local social tagging effort aimed at gathering the collected bookmarks of UPenn together in one tagging space.  Seems to focus on academia for the moment, so […]

A study by the Sloan Consortium found that a growing number of colleges are putting online more of the courses that they offer in a face-to-face setting. The consortium, an organization that promotes standards for online learning, found that more than three out of five institutions offering face-to-face undergraduate or graduate courses offer them at […]

In an announcement about Google Base on the company’s blog, CollegeBoard.com is listed as one of the first users of the service. The service has a section for "course descriptions" and another on "education." The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Google Helps Students Search for Colleges Well, this is interesting. A lot of the content in […]