Innovative Uses for Educational Technology Funds?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday January 27, 2002 @05:53AM 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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??? by _typo · 2002-01-27 06:36 · Score: 4, Redundant

Let me get this straight. You charge them a "technology fee" *first* and then dedice what get's done with it?

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Build an integrated account system by Rhonabwy · 2002-01-27 08:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Build an integrated account system for the various OS's that you have around campus. This ends up being a LOT more than spending money, although money is part of it. It's spending Campus political clout and providing a unified service to the students. One account, one authorization, no matter where you're going or what you need.