The embarrassing truth about the hybrid cloud
Lots of up-and-coming technologies have been receiving the media’s attention this year. Wearable tech promises emails and search capabilities with a glance at our watch or just by…
Month: October 2013
MOOCs and their discontents
Coded into the DNA of MOOCs (the unwieldy acronym for Massive Open Online Courses) is a profound sense of social, educational, and economic justice. MOOCs are courses from…
Educators wary of tech fixes for college affordability crisis
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) are being heralded by some educational administrators and officials as a potential solution for the college affordability crisis. But are they really the…
eCampus News top views: MOOCs, online learning and IT
This has been another great week for eCampus News. This week’s featured stories include commentary on IT and networking, more analysis on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), Big…
Colleges and Universities Reduce Server Footprint, Improve System Performance and Simplify IT Maintenance with Oracle Exadata Database Machine
University of Arkansas, Northern Illinois University and Brigham Young University Improve Registration and Student System Availability and Reliability with Oracle ... Read more
UW-L will study MOOCs with Gates Foundation grant
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will look back at the college’s popular online math class to examine how the new way of learning might better benefit…
Canon Launches New S-Series of Ultra-Compact, Lightweight, Full HD Network Cameras with Built-In Analytics
MELVILLE, N.Y., October 17, 2013 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, added four new Full HD ... Read more
Colleges ramping up data analytics degrees to meet big data challenge
Jobs in the data analytics field are growing every day. The reason so many of them are left unfilled is because, up until now, there has been no…
Europe’s iversity launches 1st MOOCs with 100k+ students
Berlin-based MOOCs startup iversity, which last year began a pivot away from online learning collaboration tools with the aim of becoming the Coursera of Europe, is launching its…
MOOCs: Can they produce the next Einstein?
Growing proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is having a profound (if not fully understood) effect on education. MOOCs, compared to traditional classrooms, have impressively high enrollment,…