How will Facebook’s news page changes affect higher ed?
Facebook will bring Timeline to Brand Pages by the end of this month. These changes will mimic the profile change announced at the F8 conference and although Facebook…
Month: February 2012
How important are open eBook standards to universities?
eBook standards may lack the glamor that the technology attracts, but the arrival of ePub3 has the potential to transform how the academy creates and delivers its content…
FCC bars the use of airwaves for a broadband plan
A proposed wireless broadband network that would provide voice and Internet service using airwaves once reserved for satellite-telephone transmissions should be shelved because it interferes with GPS technology,…
Does the online education revolution mean the death of the diploma?
Education is changing, and it’s changing fast. Anyone can put together a personalized educational experience via digital textbooks accessible by iPad, video learning from top university faculty, or…
Web developers unleash code in hopes that students will take on bookstores
The creators of a popular online textbook service are arming college students with open source code that might give rise to low-cost textbook sites and create competition for…
Low rates spur colleges to refinance, issue debt
Extremely low interest rates and an improved financial environment in the United States are encouraging educational institutions to refinance and take on debt, Reuters reports.
Date My School identifies the nation’s ‘hottest’ colleges
Date My School is a website founded in November 2010 by two Columbia University MBA classmates, Balazs Aexa and Jean Meyer, to help students of universities meet both…
In China, private colleges, universities multiply to meet higher-education demand
Hundreds of private colleges and universities have opened in China in the past decade in response to soaring demand for higher education in the world’s most populous nation,…
Obama looks to ‘educate our way to a better economy’
President Obama tabbed $8 billion in his new budget for online and in-person job training programs at community colleges in a move that Education Secretary Arne Duncan says…