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Mallon, Melissa – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
As academic librarians' professional and personal lives become busier and more varied, the need for tools to assist with accomplishing a myriad of tasks in a short time becomes even more necessary. Due to its ability to provide anytime and anywhere access to information, mobile technology offers a number of advantages for staying connected and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Library Services, Librarians, Handheld Devices
Rocchio, Rose A. – EDUCAUSE, 2014
Smartphone ownership among college-aged Americans is high and growing, and many students own more than one mobile device. Such devices are increasingly incorporated into the academic lives of students, and the era of "bring your own everything" presents new opportunities and challenges for higher education. Mobile data collection is the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Handheld Devices, Higher Education, Technology Integration
Ferreira, Vítor Manuel; Ramos, Fernando – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper presents a new mobile micro-broadcast (or near-me) Location-Based Service designed to promote face-to-face communication among users located within a given geographical area such as a University campus. Because the communication services provided are time dependent, the application decides whom to contact based on the geographic…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Electronic Learning, Campuses, Geographic Location
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Needham, Richard – School Science Review, 2013
Examples of the use of various kinds of mobile information technology are explained for use in the classroom or laboratory. Individual or group work can make use of such devices, avoiding the need to move the class to a computer room or wait for a turn to use a computer in the laboratory. Many different applications are available. This article…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Rapp, David – Library Journal, 2011
Ereaders are so last year. Tablets were the watchword at this year's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 6-9. This year, the show set new records, with some 2700 companies from around the world exhibiting at the multiple exhibition halls and 30,000 attendees gawking at the products. What did they see? There were still some…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Electronic Publishing, Influence of Technology, Technological Advancement
Brooks, D. Christopher – EDUCAUSE, 2014
While the use of analytics to promote student success is gaining in popularity, basic questions about what IPAS is and the issues institutions face during implementation and integration. The "IPAS Implementation Handbook" catalogs the experiences, observations, and practical advice from 19 institutions engaged in IPAS implementation…
Descriptors: Guides, Program Implementation, Expectation, Organizational Objectives
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Drill, Sabrina L. – Journal of Extension, 2012
Mobile computing devices (smart phones, tablets, etc.) are rapidly becoming the dominant means of communication worldwide and are increasingly being used for scientific investigation. This technology can further our Extension mission by increasing our power for data collection, information dissemination, and informed decision-making. Mobile…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Computer Software Reviews, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
Gonzales, Lisa; Vodicka, Devin – Leadership, 2012
In this article, the authors describe some of the top websites recommended by colleagues for the Association of California School Administrators. The Top 12 for 2012 are: (1) Facebook (facebook.com); (2) Twitter (twitter.com); (3) Tungle (tungle.me); (4) FCMAT (fcmat.org); (5) YouSendIt (yousendit.com); (6) Slideshare (slideshare.net); (7) QR…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Program Descriptions, Information Sources
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Mueller, Shane T.; Perelman, Brandon S.; Tan, Yin Yin; Thanasuan, Kejkaew – Journal of Problem Solving, 2015
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that requires finding the shortest path through a set of points ("cities") that returns to the starting point. Because humans provide heuristic near-optimal solutions to Euclidean versions of the problem, it has sometimes been used to investigate human visual…
Descriptors: Sales Occupations, Salesmanship, Computer System Design, Computer Software Reviews
Breeding, Marshall – Computers in Libraries, 2012
As another year draws to a close, the author reflects on the trends in play related to library technologies and attempts to anticipate their trajectory going forward. The library economy has not necessarily achieved full recovery from the recent downturn. Nevertheless, the author expects that investments in technology will expand next year. For…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Automation, Open Source Technology, Research and Development
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Fauville, G.; Lantz-Andersson, A.; Säljö, R. – Environmental Education Research, 2014
United Nations of Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO's) founding statements about environmental education (EE) in the 1970s positioned it as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry. When enacted as such, it challenges traditional ways of organising secondary school education by academic subject areas. Equally,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Technology, Educational Research, Literature Reviews
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McHugh, Sheli; Yarmey, Kristen – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
Near field communication is an emerging technology that allows objects, such as mobile phones, computers, tags, or posters, to exchange information wirelessly across a small distance. Though primarily associated with mobile payment, near field communication has many different potential commercial applications, ranging from marketing to nutrition,…
Descriptors: Libraries, Internet, Library Automation, Library Development
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Bouhnik, Dan; Deshen, Mor – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
WhatsApp is a Smartphone application for instant messaging. Lately the application's popularity has risen. One of the unique features of the application is its ability to enhance communication within a group. Classroom communication between teaching faculty and high school students using WhatsApp has not yet, to our knowledge, been researched…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Synchronous Communication, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Software
Gross, Liz – CURRENTS, 2012
As a new year begins, higher education professionals who manage social media are getting to know the latest social network, Google+, and how they can best use Google+ Pages to advance their institutions. When Google+ first came on the scene in late June 2011, several institutions signed up and began using the service. Given the popularity of other…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Technologies, Mass Media Role
Reynolds, Veronica – Computers in Libraries, 2011
In these difficult economic times, everyone is on the lookout for savings. This author, an adult services librarian at New City Library in New York, has spent the last two years implementing small-scale open source and freeware replacements where proprietary or paper solutions once ruled. While none of these projects is individually revolutionary,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Open Source Technology, Library Automation, Library Development
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