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Innovative Uses for Educational Technology Funds?

Posted by Cliff on from the spending-someone-else's-money dept.

RumGunner asks: "I work for a university, and we have a special 'technology' fee that is charged to students, intended to be used for focus on new technology of direct benefit to students either in the classroom or related educational/learning activities. Every semester there is a request for proposals on how to spend this money, and for the most part these proposals are fairly lackluster. Since I know there are a lot of .GOV and .EDU readers on Slashdot, I'm curious to see if anyone has any good ideas for large (or small) scale applications of new technology for the benefit of students?"

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  1. Campus-wide wireless? by Stiletto · · Score: 4, Interesting


    If you have enough money, you can cover the campus with wireless access. This would be good for schools that haven't already wired every dorm and every classroom with CAT5.

  2. Tech Fees. by saintlupus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work for a university, and we have a special 'technology' fee that is charged to students, intended to be used for focus on new technology of direct benefit to students either in the classroom or related educational/learning activities.

    I work for one too. We also charge a technology fee. It goes straight into the general fund, never to be seen by the IT department.

    This seems pretty common -- most of the colleges I've heard of use the tech fee as something to raise rather than tuition. There's lot of those; Death of a Thousand Cuts to keep the paper tuition low.

    --saint