Higher Ed News and Trends

07/31/2009 To showcase your academic experts, forget TV and embrace Ustream… like Duke University

Duke University has done it again.

With “Office Hours,” a new series in partnership with Ustream launched today at noon ET, the institution has found another great way to showcase the expertise of its faculty.

The...

07/30/2009 Reason #1 to improve your online videos: 62% of internet users watch videos online

Lately, the higher ed community has been taken by the Twitter storm. I’ve heard and read a lot about the importance to add Twitter to the communication mix with students, alums and other target audiences.

While I’m a...

07/28/2009 Get a taste of the Institutional Web Management Workshop held in the UK from your desk

I love conferences.

Unfortunately, I can’t go to all of them – especially when they take place in Europe. So do most of you, I bet.

That’s why I really enjoyed watching earlier this morning the live stream of...

07/27/2009 The ABCs of Mobile Marketing for Higher Education

My fifth UB column for 2009 is now available in the July/August issue as well as online: “The ABCs of Mobile Marketing: Words to know in exploring this new frontier in higher education marketing”

The ABCs of Mobile...

07/15/2009 Find out more about MobilEdu and why Blackboard paid $4 million for it

As reported on the Chronicle’s blog, Campus Wired, the giant of online course management system, Blackboard, has announced yesterday at its user conference BBWorld its acquisition of the start-up Terriblyclever Design LLC...