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Campus +Industr y TECHNOLOGY HAPPENINGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
A VIDEO HISTORY. An effort at Kansas State University seeks to preserve thousands of hours of video content amassed over the last three-plus decades. The legacy content, including historical footage, guest lectures and more, is being imported to Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite video content management platform, which will serve as a central repository
for all academic video files on campus. “We’ve had a history of solutions scattered
everywhere, and Mediasite is a great end-to-end, automated platform from capturing to managing to distributing the media,” said Brandon Utech, instructional media administrator for the Kansas State University Office of Mediated Education, in a statement. Read the full story online.
WHEN MOOCS DIE. “6.002x Circuits and Electronics,” the original massive open online course that thrust MIT into
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the annals of MOOC history, is no more. Citing security concerns, edX retired the platform and shut down the servers supporting it on March 15. Members
of the MOOC community received a letter explaining, “We care about the privacy of our students, and it is simply too cumbersome to maintain security on the original half-decade-old servers. Unfortunately, it has come time to retire the original MITx 6.002x.” An updated version of the course will continue to be available. Read the full story online.
GIGABIT UPGRADE. A new gigabit wireless network is delivering high- speed WiFi to students, faculty and administrators at the University at Buffalo, the largest institution in the State University of New York system. The coverage, based on technology
from Aruba, will extend across all three UB campuses, totaling 150 buildings (academic, administrative and residence halls) and 10 million square feet. User expectations for ubiquitous wireless were a key driver behind the upgrade. “When
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