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Sherrie Negrea

ASSISTING WITH TECH—Liam Owens, the assistive technology specialist at Adelphi University, works with students to show them how various tech-based accommodations can help manage challenges related to their disabilities.
Instructional Technology

3 models for enhancing the tech aspects of accessibility

Disability services offices are forming closer partnerships with campus technology administrators and increasing their own tech expertise. Here are three models they use to get the job done.

Having the rights to digital books allows libraries to offer students more options.
Academic Affairs

Library consortium adopts EBA model for e-book acquisition

Evidence-based acquisition helps campus libraries in Pennsylvania save on digital learning materials.
ACQUIRE BY DEMAND—Demand-driven acquisition is practiced at the University of Dayton for less expensive e-book purchasing. Here, Associate Professor of Psychology Viorel Paslaru spends time inside Roesch Library reading an e-book.
Academic Affairs

Acquiring e-books for college and university libraries

Two emerging models for obtaining e-books for academic libraries: Demand-driven acquisition and evidence-based acquisition
Instruction production—Dawn Dubriel (right), an instructional designer at Lynn University, helps faculty such as criminal justice professor Sindee Kerker create lesson plans using instructional apps for iPad Pro. Instructional designers produce videos with professors and teach them how to do it themselves.
Academic Affairs

How instructional design staff help faculty create better academic videos

Higher ed institutions are raising the bar on instructional videos as professors learn best practices in content development and production from their expert colleagues on campus
WINDOW DISPLAY—The video wall in the admissions office at New York Institute of Technology is meant to inspire people, whether it‘s a prospective student checking out academic programs while waiting for a campus tour, or a pedestrian walking by the building who can’t help but peer inside.
Finance

Video walls move to the next level

Ideas for using impressive video display wall technology across college campuses
Since a video wall was installed in the library at Connecticut College in 2015 (right), it has been used by more than 1,000 students in about 80 different classes.
Uncategorized

Tech providers on successful video wall displays

Tech providers weigh in on the challenges colleges and universities tend to have with creating video display walls and how overcome them.
IT and AV

Interactive video content ideas and best practices

Here are some examples of content ideas for interactive video content as well as best practices that are already employed by various universities and colleges across the U.S. Create ways for […]
IT and AV

Creating interactive video for distance learning courses

Teenagers spend more of their time watching YouTube video clips than television, according to research from DEFY Media. Yet when they arrive at college, they’re suddenly expected to sit in […]
Nearly one-quarter of Georgia Southern University's student population had signed up for its store‘s U Count Rewards Program in its first three months. Students get $2 for every $100 spent in the store.
Commerce

Higher ed retail: More in store

As textbook sales have declined, campus stores are relying on promotions to attract students who might not otherwise have a reason to visit. The wave of special events continues year-round in an attempt to drive business beyond the pre-semester rush.
Hear me now—The Furculo Hall project at UMass Amherst required transforming a gym space with high ceilings into classrooms. Acoustic panel ceilings and upper wall sound-absorbing treatments achieved the look and results sought by the program team. Architect: Perkins + Will Photo: @Anton Grassl
Facilities

How colleges are upgrading classroom acoustics

College classrooms of yore were often fortresses reinforced with concrete floors and walls. Listening to a lecture in such hard-surfaced rooms was like trying to decipher sound in an echo […]
Facilities

Acoustic design experts discuss trends in sound systems

How are higher ed institutions doing in recognizing the importance of acoustics and noise control in new and existing learning spaces? What’s one thing you wish campus administrators understood better […]
Acoustics quiz (click to enlarge)
Facilities

Quiz: Is your campus paying attention to classroom acoustics?

Take this quiz to find out if your campus has acoustic problems in its classrooms. If so, the facilities department should assess the acoustics to determine if there are problems with reverberation […]
Facilities

Helping deaf and hard-of-hearing students access lectures

Students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can struggle even in rooms with the best acoustics. Institutions receiving federal funding, including all public colleges and universities, are required by law to […]
Uncategorized

Getting the job done

For higher ed institutions considering restructuring their general education curriculum, administrators suggest they involve the faculty in the process from the start. “People need to communicate in a completely transparent […]
Uncategorized

Reconstructing general ed for colleges and universities

While a college’s general education curriculum touches every student, officials may go many years without touching those requirements in any significant way. In fact, some institutions are still using general ed […]
Uncategorized

‘New general education’ snapshots

Virginia Tech: Pathways Apply ethical reasoning and intercultural and global awareness across the entire curriculum. Take one of 10 interdisciplinary minors to earn up to 18 of the 45 required […]