Technology Evaluation

LMS Update

Posted by on October 6, 2014

Last year, Educational Technology supported a committee of faculty and students to evaluate our current Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard.  This LMS Review effort was part of a larger project to understand whether the portfolio of learning technologies we had implemented on campus contained the best tools to meet the needs of instructors and students […]

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FINAL REMINDER: Blackboard Open Forum on October 2, 2013

Posted by on September 30, 2013

Educational Technology will be hosting a second open forum about Blackboard and Learning Management Systems (LMS) in general on Wednesday, October 2, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the main atrium of the Havener Center. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Participants will be eligible to […]

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Statement from EdTech on New Building Blocks in Blackboard and Other Technologies

Posted by on September 23, 2013

Pearson Education recently sent an announcement to several instructors that a new building block for Blackboard was now available, similar to other publishing company building blocks (e.g. McGraw Hill Connect). We will not be able to deploy the Pearson building block at the beginning of the Fall semester 2012. We here in Educational Technology (EdTech) […]

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Netbooks: A Transitional Technology

Posted by on June 11, 2009

We here at EdTech Enterprises have recently been examining the possibility of using a “netbook” for some applications instead of heavier and more bulky standard laptop or tablet PCs. However, I recently came across a couple of good articles that look at some of advantages and disadvantages of netbooks in comparison to other technologies. Jeff […]

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