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Autodesk has announced AutoCAD 2011 for Mac. This new version of AutoCAD, software for professional design and engineering that previously ran only on the Windows platform, now runs natively on Mac OS X. Autodesk also announced that the new Mac version of AutoCAD would be accompanied by the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone, and the iPod touch that will let users edit and s...

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Created by physicians for physicians, a mobile device application in use at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville allows doctors to continuously monitor their patients, even if their patients are several rooms away. VigiVU, created for the iPhone by the VUMC Department of Anesthesiology, allows anesthesiologists and other clinicians to watch over up to four patients immediately before,...

Stolen from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Enjoy! When caught turning in papers with passages lifted straight from Wikipedia, some students say they didn’t realize that was against the rules. Should colleges do more to explain plagiarism and academic integrity? A series of articles in The New York Times this month highlights the prevelance of student plagiarism on campuses and the cluel...

For autistic children, the new iPad is an effective, portable device for teaching communication and social skills. It’s also way cool. Three weeks had passed since Shannon Rosa had glanced over the numbers on her tiny blue raffle ticket. Like many other parents, she had agreed to cough up $5 not because she thought she had any real chance of winning, but to support the school. Now, as she sat in...

Educators from around the country are gathering here this week to trade ideas at the 26th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. One expert they’ll hear from is George Veletsianos, an assistant professor of instructional technology at the University of Texas at Austin who edited the new book Emerging Technologies in Distance Education. Wired Campus caught up with Mr. Veletsiano...

Sallie Mae’s “How America Pays for College 2010” (PDF, 4MB) study, conducted by Gallup, finds that even in a continued period of economic uncertainty, families are digging deeper to invest in what they value: a college degree. Based on a nationally representative survey of college-going students and parents of undergraduates, the study found that: Both parents and students op...

Over the weekend, Fortune reported on data collected by research firm Student Monitor showing Apple holding down the #1 spot among notebook computer manufacturers favored by U.S. college students. In its most recent survey of 1,200 students, the firm found that 27% of student-owned notebooks were Macs, compared to 24% for second-place Dell. Apple also fares well looking ahead to the future, with 4...

Every time you navigate from website to website, or video to video, you’re driven by the experience. And yet, when we share content online — whether it’s scrolling through a Flickr photostream from your friend’s wedding, or a live-streaming video — we are often left feeling that something is missing; that for all of the attention on social networking, there are few social media experienc...

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. The research revealed that Americans spend a third their online time (36 percent) communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging. ...