Tips for understanding copyright rules
With headlines about tough copyright rulings fresh in their minds, educators across the nation might hesitate when it comes to using copyrighted material in their lessons or sharing…
Month: January 2013
Grading the president: Obama’s education approval stats
All week long, you've heard about how states are doing on education. Now it's the president's turn to be graded, the Huffington Post reports.
Opinion: How MIT and Harvard are connected to Reddit co-founder’s death
Open democracy advocate and internet pioneer Aaron Swartz was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide, flooding the digital spectrum with an outpouring of grief, says the Huffington…
Downturn still squeezes colleges and universities
An annual survey of colleges and universities found that a growing number of schools face declining enrollment and less revenue from tuition, the New York Times reports.
eCampus News Nov/Dec 2012
• Campus leaders ponder eLearning's future • Anonymous online reporting draws fire • Boise State seeks to redefine 'well-educated' • Gates Foundation supports college readiness apps • New…
2013 WEBINARS ON STRENGTHENING ASSESSMENT ANNOUNCED FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION COMMUNITY
LiveText, a market leader in evidence-based performance evaluation of student learning achievement, announces its 2013 webinar series focused on strengthening ... Read more
College degrees protected recent grads from great recession’s worst
It was a defining image of the Great Recession: floundering college grads stuck back home, living in mom and dad's basement. But while rooted in some truth, that…
FAQs on recent data misreporting by colleges
In recent months, four colleges admitted to misreporting data to U.S. News for our college rankings.
No one knows how many vets graduate: Why it’s a problem
The federal government has spent more than $20 billion helping 817,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan go to college, the Huffington Post reports.
Niche-based digital marketing attracts nontraditional students
To improve enrollment, officials at Mount Olive College knew they would need to understand their own student population better, and identify the types of students they should target…