FAST FIVE for the week of August 25, 2013

News:

Hosted course management: The University of Calgary is planning to move from on-premise hosted Blackboard courses to a cloud-hosted instance of Desire2Learn. They will be running 30 to 50 pilot courses this fall and they are planning  for full implementation in the Spring 2014 semester. eLearning @ uCalgary

Mobile learning: Algonquin College continues to expand its mobile learning program. All students entering into the program are expected to have and use a mobile computing device and they will take the majority of their courses in the Colleges newly renovated mobile learning classrooms. Over 6,000 students in 76 programs to participate in the program (2012/2013), and they expect to grow the program to include all students by 2016. Mobile learning @ Algonquin

New data centre: Mohawk College is building a new Dell modular data centre and the best way to describe it is with a picture: Data centre in a box

Migrating to Exchange 2010: The University of Toronto has migrated from Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. This project was a gradual migration that happened over a two year period. Upgrading email

Upgrading Moodle: Carleton University is performing its annual course management system upgrade and moving from Moodle 2.1 to 2.4. The upgrade will happen over the Labour Day weekend. Moodle move

Question:

If you had to teach a course in the management of IT in higher ed to first year students, what is the single most important issue you would tell them? 

Please respond to mprroman@gmail.com and I will post comments next week. Thanks!