The Ivory Tower teeters
The world of higher education as we have known it has entered the twilight zone. Their contours still recognizable, America's colleges and universities are becoming shades of their…
Month: September 2013
Oklahoma U. brings order to digital disarray
Faculty members at universities are often criticized for being reluctant to embrace new digital tools and instruction models, InformationWeek reports. The University of Oklahoma, with its One University…
Campus libraries embrace future with technology
From eBooks, to online card catalogs, to entirely digital collections, research libraries are shifting further and further away from the dusty old buildings many associate with their college…
Roger Williams University Leverages Samsung Technologies to Create Collaborative Learning Environment in Support of Affordable Excellence Initiative
Roger Williams University (RWU) and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. are partnering on a groundbreaking educational technology initiative in an effort ... Read more
Will MOOCs save us?
Those who’ve been reading this series will recall that I didn’t think much of the “Baumol cost disease” explanation for why college costs are going up, The Washington…
Students turn to social media to research colleges
College students are scouring social media to find out about perspective colleges more than ever, though students with the highest SAT scores took a slightly different approach to…
Online class aims to earn millions
Two University of Texas at Austin professors this week launched their introductory psychology class from a makeshift studio, with a goal of eventually enrolling 10,000 students at $550…
The do’s and don’ts of social media in college
You may have caught wind of a story this week about a 22-year-old college senior at the University of Iowa who got arrested at her college’s football game…
Vanderbilt teases students, pleases faculty with MOOCs
Positioning its massive open online courses (MOOCs) as "educational outreach" rather than course replacements has helped Vanderbilt University sidestep faculty unrest, InformationWeek reports. A year into its partnership…
Knewton adaptive learning technology goes global
Just days after announcing an expansion of a collaboration with Pearson to bring its adaptive learning technology to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses, Knewton has announced…