Google Play increases eTextbook options
Textbook prices over the past decade have increased by more than 80 percent, and some students and faculty have begun turning to alternate, cheaper online means for their…
Month: November 2013
Social media gives leg up to students looking for work
When Bill, a 40-something displaced worker taking classes at Milwaukee Area Technical College, was told he would be required to engage in several forms of social media throughout…
Mediasite Power Users, Sonic Foundry VP to Talk Flipped Classrooms, MOOCs, Dual Enrollment
Clemson University, Eastern New Mexico University, Michigan Virtual University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse faculty, administrators to present at Sloan-C ... Read more
7 of the best Big Data experts to follow on Twitter
Educators, IT officials, and campus decision makers have increasingly looked to reams of data for ways to improve learning, teaching, and streamlining students' path toward a college degree…
To catch a test-taking thief (with technology)
Now that American education has entered the era of the MOOC -- the Massive Open Online Course -- the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever. The omniscient…
New data science institute to help scholars harness ‘big data’
In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to…
Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, godfather of free online education, changes course
There's a story going around college campuses--whispered about over coffee in faculty lounges, held up with great fanfare in business-school sections, and debated nervously by chain-smoking teaching assistants,…
Higher Education Evolution Part 2: Faculty’s Role in 2023
Online learning won’t be the only option in 10 years, but it will be a prevalent one, experts said, and that means more and more instructors will find…
The outsourcing of campus ResNet services is here
College and university IT officials have for years warned that students' ever-growing pile of mobile devices would eventually be too much for local residential networks (ResNet). It was…
Dell Software Simplifies Business Intelligence and Improves Operational Efficiency for Kennesaw State University
Date : 11/12/2013 Round Rock, Texas Implementing Toad Business Intelligence Suite saves university 20 hours a week on data provisioning ... Read more