| | | | | 1. Wofford College Selects Daktronics For LED Super System Installation | via AV Network
Wofford College of Spartanburg, South Carolina, partnered with Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota to design, manufacture and install a facility-wide system at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium that includes video displays, ribbon displays, scorer’s tables, shot clocks and fixed-digit scoreboards. The equipment is set to be installed in the 123,000-square-foot facility during the Spring and will be ready to entertain and excite Terrier fans on opening night. | | Why This Matters: With four large video displays in the four corners of the building supplemented by a wide array of additional AV solutions, the experience for fans and student athletes are Wofford College has been taken to the next level. | | | | 2. Student success drives Cal State Fullerton's digital strategies | via EdScoop
Technology serves many masters on college campuses. But for California State University, Fullerton and its CIO, Amir Dabirian, the first goal of IT strategy is that technology must help drive student success. | | Why This Matters: In our era of hyper-connectedness, tech-driven solutions are essential, but these solutions must also be supported by solid IT strategies. | | | | 3. UC Berkeley aims to improve higher ed online accessibility | via University Business
In a move that will ultimately bring its public online content in line with new federal accessibility standards, the University of California, Berkeley has begun removing older videos and other documents that don’t meet the mark. | | Why This Matters: How do you feel about UC Berkeley taking down their content with accessibility issues? While their newly created content will meet government accessibility standards, it's a shame that they chose to remove older content rather than making it accessible. |
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| | | | It’s Too Easy to Blame Facebook
"The obstacles existing in diffusive information literacy (and now media literacy, news literacy and digital literacy) have not changed in the 40+ years since information literacy became part of the academic lexicon. We teach __________ literacy, we bring attention to the trouble of information digestion in a society of rapid consumption, and we have a history of measures showing aptitude in students in controlled spaces with ____________ literacy yet today, like in the past, the problem is growing." —Rolin Moe, edutechnicalities |
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