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Two Educators Explain Their Experience Working with Digital Assessment Platforms

Goodbye bubble tests, hello instant feedback - A pair of educators recount how their classrooms have evolved as they move from paper tests to assessments built directly into digital content platforms.

October 25, 2016 Jeanette Bratcher and Tracy Cantrell Leave a Comment

The days of giving students tests on paper are coming to an end. More educators are exploring assessment options using students’ 1:1 devices to streamline the assessment process. To save teachers time and effort, some content providers have expanded their platforms to provide users with pre-built assessments, assignments, and activities designed to personalize learning by […]

Welcome to the New and Improved TechDecisions!

Our new website will focus on IT concerns of technology decision makers, while continuing to provide the best information in AV and Security.

October 21, 2016 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

Welcome! As you can see we’ve made a few changes. The most obvious change is that our brand is no longer separated by markets. We’re housing all of our information in one singular location for easier access and discoverability from one vertical market to the next. Why keep things separate when any market can benefit […]

Tracking Trends in Technology Management

Mobile device management to update your school IT.

October 20, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

New technology has become a trend in every part of our lives, giving us new ways to do things faster, easier and with more data available. Change is all around us with new operating systems, platforms and hardware. In the midst of all this change, one thing is certain: Mobility is here to stay. Especially […]

Videoconferencing Lends Help to Dental Practices Thanks to Operation Smile

The beautiful story of Operation Smile is something to smile about.

October 12, 2016 Andy Cuneo Leave a Comment

At the beginning of each day, I look for a motivational story for that little extra boost. Sometimes it’s a news story, a popular video or a personal anecdote from a friend of a family member. And each day as I reflect back on that story, I look forward to applying it to my work […]

ITT Tech Officially Closes After Federal Sanctions

The for-profit higher education institution discontinues all academic operations permanently after sanctions preventing ITT Tech from receiving any federal aid for tuition.

October 7, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever been home sick from work watching television, odds are at some point you’ve seen a commercial for ITT Technical Institute. It’s often a tale about a student success story, showing how the for-profit college helped a struggling young adult get a degree and begin an exciting new career. You won’t be seeing […]

Students Build Writing Skills with This Auto-Grading Solution

More than a million words needed to be read each semester in a single class at this university, until they turned to tech for help.

October 6, 2016 Wendy Gordon Leave a Comment

More than a million. That’s the total number of words that instructors at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, needed to pore through each semester for College Composition I. Approximately 250 full- and part-time students take the course each year at the Arizona community college, which requires students to submit written essays totaling approximately 4,500 words […]

Amazon Alexa Voice Control for Videoconferencing?

Commercial AV better get ready for Alexa, as the Amazon Echo device is about to significantly advance voice control in AV control programming.

October 5, 2016 Tim Albright Leave a Comment

Last month Dallas, Texas hosted a tradeshow dedicated to the audio visual industry. CEDIA is all about the residential segment of AV, but that doesn’t mean it has no impact on the commercial AV channel. One of the more significant bits of news to come out of the show last week was the integration of […]

Are Virtual Security Operations Centers in Your Future?

The next wave of campus physical security may be VSOCs, which leverage the cloud to deliver efficiencies, cost savings and improved security.

September 26, 2016 Brian Tuskan Leave a Comment

Being responsible for the physical security of a campus environment can be a daunting task. Campuses may share similarities, but every campus is different and requires a strategy for master planning before going out and wasting a lot of time and money. Campus security departments are usually under staffed, under budgeted and, historically, have had […]

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September 22, 2016 Danielle Frappier Leave a Comment

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Chicago’s Green Learning Center Gets a New Video Wall

This installation launches a strategic alliance between NanoLumens and DIRTT to bring fine-pitch LED displays to the corporate interior design market.

September 15, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

The traditional LCD video wall that has been the mainstay of the corporate interior design market is about to become a thing of the past — thanks to a new initiative launched by DIRTT Environmental Solutions, a leading provider of highly customized pre-fabricated interiors, and NanoLumens, the industry-leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor and outdoor […]