Digication is exhibiting and presenting at the League of Innovations Conference taking place in Baltimore, MD,  March 28-31.

Stop by and visit founders Jeff Yan and Kelly Driscoll at booth 219 and see a demonstration of the Digication e-Portfolio and Assessment Management System and attend the following sessions for an indepth view of how Digication can be put to work on your campus:

Assessment Using e-Portfolios:  The Journey, Insights, and Discoveries
Learn about Tunxis Community College’s exploration and implementation of e-Portfolios for authentic assessment of student learning and accreditation. Participants are encouraged to share e-Portfolio journeys, insights, and discoveries.

Key Presenter:
Laura Gambino, Professor, Computer Information Systems And Technology Studies
Tunxis Community College

Date and Time: Monday, Mar 29, 2010 (3:45 PM – 4:45 PM)
Scheduled Location: University 3-4, Level 1, Marriott

Support Career Advancement, Teaching, Learning, and Assessment with Digication
Learn about the Digication e-Portfolio and Assessment Management System. Digication supports career advancement of students and faculty and assessment of student work for learning, curriculum development, and accreditation.

Key Presenter:
Jeff Yan, Co-founder & CEO
Digication, Inc.

Date and Time: Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010 (9:15 AM – 10:15 AM)
Scheduled Location: Key 12, Level 2, Hilton

About the League of Innovations Conference:

Innovations 2010 is the premier event for professionals dedicated to improving organizational teaching and learning, and discovering new approaches for enhancing the community college experience. The conference provides a tremendous forum for collaboration among academic experts and leading community college professionals, while granting participants exclusive access to the most inventive and thought-provoking programs from around the world.

The conference provides opportunities for colleagues to showcase their model programs, share lessons learned, and look to the future by experiencing a wide array of new ideas through the Conference Streams:

(1) Learning and Teaching
(2) Leadership and Organization
(3) Workforce Preparation and Development
(4) Student Services and Activities
(5) Basic Skills and Developmental Education
(6) Resource Development and Foundation Management
(7) Research, Assessment, and Accountability
(8) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(9) Sustainability

http://www.league.org/i2010/

Digication is exhibiting at NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010 taking place March 8-10 at the Providence, RI Convention Center.

Digication’s co-founders, Kelly Driscoll and Jeffrey Yan, will be presenting the Digication e-Portfolio and Assessment Management System at booth 304. Stop by and see us!

NERCOMP 2010 is entitled, “The Next-Generation University: Rethinking IT in Disruptive Times,” and will explore how  institutions and organizations are managing economic challenges, forging new visions, and integrating new information technology paradigms and approaches.

For more information about the conference visit: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5970

Digication co-founders, Jeff Yan and Kelly Driscoll are exhibiting the Digication e-Portfolio and Assessment Management System at AAC&U’s 2010 Network for Academic Renewal Conference titled, “General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities.” The conference is taking place February 18-20, 2010 in Seattle, Washington.

Conference themes include:
1. vision, goals, and designs of general education;
2. faculty engagement and collaboration, including with student affairs;
3. assessment and alignment; and
4. maintaining momentum, related to navigating change politically, structurally, and in a time of restricted resources.

Digication co-founders, Jeff Yan and Kelly Driscoll attended the annual AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities) in Washington, D.C, Jan.17-20th.  The event started with a pre-conference symposium titled, “The Search for VALUE: Innovation, Economic Uncertainty, and E-Portfolio Assessment”.  In this day long symposium participants contributed to the national dialogue about the need for high quality measurement of student learning through multiple expert assessments of the quality of student work rather than standardized testing.  They explored in depth the potential of e-portfolios as well as the barriers to their widespread adoption.

Nearly 2,000 participants gathered together last week at AAC&U’s annual meeting, The Wit, The Will,…and the Wallet to learn, debate, and discuss how to maintain quality in undergraduate education even in the midst of challenging economic times.

Yan and Driscoll met many thought leaders from educational institutions across the country and were thrilled at the discussions that took place centered on experiential learning and reflective learning.

Digication is now preparing of the upcoming AAC&U Conference in Seattle February 18-20.  This Network for Academic Renewal Conference is titled “General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities.”

We will be posting more information about this conference soon.  Hope to see you there!

As our customers know, Digication takes users’ rights to their own content very seriously.  Based on your feedback we have updated the Digication Terms of Use.

Below is a summary of changes:
- The overall language has been made more consistent.
- The “User Content” section has been made clearer.

Digication has always believed that users should solely own all of their content.  Digication only requires necessary rights in order to perform hosting and distribution functions according to each users’ settings.  The previous legal language found in the Digication Terms of Use, has always been there to support these beliefs but the language was rather confusing especially for those who are LSL (legalese as second language).

The most significant update is in “Section 6. User Content”. We have now made it more clear:

The new language is as follows:
“You will grant Digication all necessary rights to store, display and distribute (but not to sell) your User Content in accordance with your an your Subscriber’s (if your use of Digication is in connection with a Subscriber) instructions and permissions in the course of our operation of Digication, by posting your User Content on Digication. We also have the right to utilize data capture, syndication and analysis tools, and other similar tools, to extract, compile, synthesize, and analyze data or information concerning access and use of Digication (but not User Content) by you and other Users. We solely own the results of such extractions, compilations, syntheses and analyses, may use them for any lawful business purpose without accounting to you or any other User, and may distribute them without accounting to you or any other User as long as no User Content or other personally identifiable information is revealed and the information is reported only in aggregated form.”

The previous language:
“By posting your User Content on Digication, you grant us, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity and database rights you have in your User Content, in any media now or in the future, in order for us to store, display and distribute your User Content in accordance with your and your Subscriber’s (if your use of Digication is in connection with a Subscriber) instructions and permissions in the course of our operation of Digication. We also have the right to utilize data capture, syndication and analysis tools, and other similar tools, to extract, compile, synthesize, and analyze any non-personally identifiable data or information concerning access and use of Digication by you and other Users, not including discussions or User Content. We solely own such information and may use such information for any lawful business purpose without accounting to you or any other User, as long as the information is used only in aggregated form, without specific identification of its source.”

The new Digication Terms of Use can be found at http://campus.digication.com/terms_and_conditions.digi or at the bottom of all Digication pages.

All users who log in on or after 1/4/2010 will also be prompted to re-agree to the updated Digication Terms of Use. Users will only need to agree to it once.

Again, we appreciate all your feedback. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns at support@digication.com.