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A crowd of about 100 people gathered in Zellerbach Hall at noon Thursday to honor five members of the campus community who perished in Friday’s Oakland fire.
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Jordan Zimmerman was once a sales associate at a local retail store, putting in 20 hours a week to help make extra money on the side as she studied at UC Berkeley.
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Educational Technology Services has operated its lecture capture service since 2001, recording about 3,000 lectures each semester. However, the service spends more than $1 million more than its budget per year, and the “students-only” webcast model would help to solve its deficit, according to deputy director Ben Hubbard.
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It’s no secret how fond our school is of displaying its Berkeley pride in virtually everything remotely related to the university. We have BearWalk, Bear Market, BearFacts — you get the idea. A crucial part of this esteemed ‘b’ club was bSpace, but it is slowly being phrased out by the
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UC Berkeley expects it will completely phase out its current learning management system, bSpace, by the end of spring 2015. The new system, called bCourses, began implementation over the summer.
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As part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the campus’ online educational tools, UC Berkeley’s Educational Technology Services (ETS) has announced it will pilot online platform Canvas with the long-term goal of replacing bSpace, the current system for hosting course webpages.
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UC Berkeley is designing a new platform to improve online interaction and collaboration among students, faculty and staff — part of an overall shift toward using alternative platforms to improve cross-campus communication. Currently in the design and pilot phases, CalCentral seeks to combine all the features of bSpace — the
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One of several UC Berkeley classrooms that are being converted into active learning classrooms, which would serve as “test kitchens” to try out new tools and techniques in classes, was completed last week and will now be available for use in the fall semester. The project to transform two classrooms
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