Written by Jade Nowland on February 23, 2012.
UPDATE (9:30AM Feb 21): An important typo in the % of existing mobile solutions was fixed in the report.
A few weeks ago I conducted the second survey about the State of Mobile Web in Higher Ed to provide the community with some insights on the mobile web in our industry. The first survey was run last year at about the same time.
This year again, this online survey was a big success as a total of 281 professionals working mainly in the marketing, communication and web offices of 267 institutions of higher education completed it from January 9, 2012 to February 13, 2012.
Youll find details about the following survey findings (as well as others) in the 10-page executive summary (PDF) including results and charts. This open and independent research work is supported by Higher Ed Experts (when you buy a webinar series like our upcoming Higher Ed Mobile Summit or you sign up for our Responsive Web Design online course, this is the kind of work you help fund 
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The Mobile Web is on the agenda in higher ed
- 59% (37% in 2011) of the survey respondents provide a solution (mobile website, accessible website, native mobile device applications etc.) targeting and serving owners of mobile devices.
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Written by Jade Nowland on February 13, 2012.
Heres a closer look at the hair and make-up from the Academy of Art University Fall 12 Fashion Show! Our fabulous team from Aveda helped bring the beautiful vision to life. Make-up artists created a subtly smokey eye with soft brown and plum shadows and black liner, finishing the look with a few coats of mascara. And though the eyes looked gorgeous the lips truly stole the show. First, a layer of fuschia lipstick was applied, and then topped with an even brighter coat of gloss. And when we say gloss, we mean super gloss this stuff was practically shellac. The bright lips added the perfect pop of color on the runway.
The hair had a definite 60s feel. Stylists back-combed the models hair to create volume at the crown, and then slicked it back. The ends were tied and tucked under, creating a soft, rounded edge.
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Written by Jade Nowland on February 6, 2012.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University Heritage Celebration Series presents Bruce. T. Fisher to speak on Monday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. as part of Black History month. Fisher’s presentation, “Tracing Our Roots: Oklahoma’s Historically Black Towns Tour,” will be delivered through ITV from Northwestern-Enid room 202 to branch locations in Alva-Carter Hall room 107; Woodward-room 114; and Ponca City-room 119.
Fisher’s presentation is free and open to the public.
The presentation features rare film footage of rural black communities in the late 1920’s shot by an African American minister, Reverend S. S. Jones of Muskogee, some of which was featured at a recent Association of Moving Images Archivist Conference by Yale University Archivist.
The Oklahoma Historical Society is the only other institution that owns this film footage.
Fisher was born in Chickasha and grew up in Oklahoma City. He received
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Written by Jade Nowland on January 24, 2012.
Some half-dozen years ago, I took part in building a “demo” course to showcase a learning / course management system (L/CMS) that was merely to be an exploratory space. This was mostly to show the various and full functions of the system for delivering various digital contents, supporting intercommunications, building learning communities, and maintaining student records. This demo course involved curriculum from K-12 and university because this was designed for a wide level of public usage.
Showcasing Quality E-Learning to a University Faculty Audience
Of late, another project involves creating an online showcase course, this time, for university faculty to see how others are building learning in the same L/CMS. This latter project assumes some varying levels of sophistication—from very low levels of sophistication to more complex ones. The overall structure of this course was based on an e-learning quality rubric. This course is being built to support training for faculty teaching online—to encourage more quality e-learning.
Beyond the audience differences and purpose, this latter project has been somewhat different from the initial one. First,
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Written by Jade Nowland on January 15, 2012.
Website redesigns are a fact of life in higher education. And, thats why our yearly Web Redesign Boot Camp webinar series (Feb 7-9, 2012) is always very well-attended as it provides practical tips and useful advice for web redesign projects in higher education as well as a good overview of the latest trends in our field.
Another great way to keep an eye on the state of web design in higher education is to follow EDU Checkup, Nick DeNardis video blog.
Every week or so, Nick selects a higher ed website, reviews and grades it. He has done it since October 2008 and thus has reviewed hundreds of websites from universities and colleges. Given the interest for the rankings of top higher ed websites by EDU Checkup scores I published last year, Im sure you will all be interested in this new edition of the rankings by overall EDU Checkup score combining grades for visual, information and code.
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