What Will Happen to MOOCs Now that Udacity Is Leaving Higher Ed? — Campus Technology

By Dan Wheeler on January 31, 2014

John K. Waters in Campus Technology summarizes the current state of the rapidly evolving MOOC ecosystem.

What Will Happen to MOOCs Now that Udacity Is Leaving Higher Ed? (Dec ’13)

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How to Make the Most of the Flipped Classroom (Jan ’14)

By Dan Wheeler on January 31, 2014

David Raths reports in Campus Technology (Jan 2014) that while many classrooms are being “flipped,” professors are stilling working on improving their “lecture-free classroom time.”

How to Make the Most of the Flipped Classroom

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Internet Router Changes Thursday January 23th

By mark hine on January 23, 2014

Overview:

ITS will be making a minor change this evening to the equipment which connects us to the Internet. Although no Internet service outage is expected, due to the complexity of the work, a short interruption may occur. If an interruption should occur we anticipate it will only last a few minutes.

This action is being taken to resolve several reported problems streaming video and transferring large files to/from from the Internet. Thank you for your patience.

Timeframe: This work will be performed today, Thursday, January 23rd between the hours of 9:30PM and 11:00PM.

Impact: Potential Internet service outage (not anticipated). Any disruption should be minimal.

Things You Can Do: If your Internet service is interrupted, please wait a few minutes and try again.

Affected Users: All Colgate community members

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ITSInfo: Moodle Outage Fri 17-Jan (RESTORED)

By Dan Wheeler on January 17, 2014

Overview:

Moodle was out of service, reporting a database connection error, from about 11:40am until about 12:00pm due to a network configuration problem. ITS Infrastructure Services (formerly NSO) corrected a problem with DNS (Internet name service) and Moodle service was restored; they are researching the cause of the problem.

Impact:

Moodle was not available for use

Time Frame:

Friday, January 17 from 11:38am to 12:02pm

Affected Users:

All students, faculty, and staff Moodle users

Questions should be directed to ITSHelp@Colgate.Edu

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This and most other ITS communications are archived at http://blogs.colgate.edu/its/

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ITS Alert: Banner Outage on January 7, 2014

By Tim Borfitz on January 7, 2014

Overview:

At 5:30pm on Tuesday, January 7th, ITS will be doing a maintenance upgrade on Banner.To stay current with maintenance, we are setting aside a maintenance window from 5:30-7:00pm on the first Tuesday of every month. Major Banner upgrades will still be done with significant advanced notice and during off hours and weekends.

Impact:

After the upgrade, minor bugs in Banner will be fixed. When signing into Banner, the Tab key will now work to take you to the password field.

Time Frame:

Banner and Banner self-service (parts of the portal) will be down at 5:30pm. It will be back up by 7:00pm.

Affected Users:

All Faculty, staff and students.

More Information:

This and all other ITS communications are archived at http://blogs.colgate.edu/its/

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