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Teaching and Learning

How digital moments delight your campus community

Something as simple as unlimited email space—and as complex as chatbots—can create an emotional connection between a student and a university that drives academic and institutional success.

How to collaborate to create active-learning classrooms on campus

Presenters at this year’s UB Tech conference covered a range of flexible-space strategies, from informal learning spaces to collaborative classroom redesign to professional development that steers instructors toward new teaching approaches.

Active learning relies on experience more than space

Penn State’s Kyle Bowen says experience takes priority over space as students and instructors embark on more active approaches to learning.

UB Tech® 2019 kicks off with pre-conference summits on digital learning and emerging technologies

One summit covered ways to address the return on investment of digital learning; a second summit looked at meeting the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Industry News: Colleges offer new programs through partnerships

Higher ed institutions around the country are teaming up with providers to save energy, implement digital platforms, design tax programs, offer jet training and search for new leadership.

5 keys to creating a successful campus innovation center

How to build sophisticated innovation centers (aka makerspaces or fab labs) will be the focus of a presentation at the upcoming UB Tech conference entitled “How to Develop a Makerspace that Supports a Thriving STEM Ecosystem.”

Thu May 2nd, 2019

UB op-ed: Reframing the debate on dual enrollment and early college

Lower costs and college-ready students are just some of the benefits.
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Thu Apr 11th, 2019

Creating ‘digital moments’

Curtis Carver likes to keep things simple. Not that he isn’t invested in the latest technologies, but he says technology should be without roadblocks to the user experience. Toward that […]
Thu Apr 11th, 2019

UB op-ed: How patient simulators enhance medical education

The latest in patient-simulation technology allows medical students to look at the human body in ways they haven’t been able to before. Still, some educators find that even today’s advanced […]
Mon Mar 4th, 2019

Industry News: InsideTrack, Echo360, Banner 9, Daktronics and Acopia Harvest International

Higher ed institutions in California, Illinois, Rhode Island and South Carolina will deploy new enrollment, AV, ERP and video screen systems as well as student training programs.
Tue Jan 29th, 2019

Voices in Tech: Collaboration in technology for higher ed

A Q&A with Penn State University’s Kyle Bowen on how technologies are invented and evolve, and how to use them in teaching
Tue Jan 29th, 2019