eCampus News Digital Edition May 2012

Vol. 5, No. 5 Technology News for Today’s Higher-Ed Leader May 2012
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Top News Blackboard shakes up open source Here's what the LMS giant's purchase of Moodlerooms means for colleges. http://subscriptions.eschoolmedia.com/ecn050212isu/ Technologies After Gmail adoption, some students slow to switch Some IT staff have had to launch PR campaigns to get students to make the transition. Best Practices 'Flipped learning' is turning heads The 'flipped' model is still new on campus, but many students say they embrace it Funding Coming soon: Two-tiered college pricing? Santa Monica College is mulling a controversial pricing plan. Research Bandwidth use a big concern One in five colleges now restricts the number of devices students can have online. http://subscriptions.eschoolmedia.com/ecn050212isu/		http://subscriptions.eschoolmedia.com/ecn050212isu/ California colleges turn to technology amid budget crisis Campus officials are pushing for a centralized online learning repository to save money.