University of Maryland University College to offer credit for MOOCs
University of Maryland University College believes it will be the first university in the Maryland system to let students earn academic credit for taking a massive open online…
Month: August 2013
Higher education struggling to contain data breaches this summer
College students and their professors may be away from campuses, but news of data breaches big and small continue to make headlines at colleges nationwide, including a few…
Social media putting college freshmen at ease
Celestina Encinia is comfortable with the idea of starting her freshman year of college later this month at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, The Houston Chronicle reports.
MOOCs are toast or at least should be
Is it time yet to declare massive open online courses or MOOCs an academic failure? The ongoing revelations about poor test results, high dropout rates and disgruntled university…
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When MOOCs profit, who pays?
MOOCs - massive open online courses - have been heralded as inaugurating an inevitable transformation in higher education, Aljazeera reports.
Polish University taps IBM Big Data tools to bring Middle Age manuscripts to the public
IBM and the Wroclaw University Library in Poland announced a national scientific project to preserve and digitize nearly 800,000 pages of distinctive European manuscripts, books, and maps dating…
Are students ‘too busy’ for MOOCs?
According to a survey released by Instructure, the education technology company behind the learning management system Canvas, MOOC students may just be too busy to complete the courses.
FSR Unleashes Multi-Format Scaling Matrix Switcher
Woodland Park, NJ – FSR has announced the immediate availability of the new DVS-MFSW-94XT, a multi-format 9×4 scaling matrix switcher ... Read more
Extron Now Shipping New Market-Leading Speaker Innovation for Suspended Ceilings
Anaheim, California (August 1, 2013) – Extron Electronics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the SpeedMount Ceiling Speaker ... Read more