Big turnout for launch of big-data center
It was standing room only in Sutardja Dai Hall’s Banatao Auditorium, with many more watching monitors in the overflow section, at Thursday’s high-energy launch of the Berkeley Institute…
Month: December 2013
MOOCs are a total bust according to the hype cycle
If last year was The Year of the MOOC, this one is the year of disenchantment with massively open online courses, Motherboard reports. Haven't you heard? Online courses…
Higher Education’s Big (Data) Bang: Part Three
Higher education institutions in recent year have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in data research and tools. Some universities are putting up this money themselves, while others…
Florida Polytechnic University selects Three Rivers Systems’ innovative CAMS Enterprise to launch its 2014 opening
St. Louis — December 19, 2013 — With a STEM-based learning strategy, a post-space-age dome-like inaugural building designed by an ... Read more
Obama advisers: MOOCs will transform education ‘at all levels’
A group of scientists and engineers who advise President Obama on national technology policy wrote in a Dec. 18 report that massive open online courses (MOOCs) could prove…
IBM’s predictions: 6 Big Data trends In 2014
Businesses next year will sharpen their focus on big data and place a greater emphasis on analytics projects, data-related security and privacy, and a new generation of cognitive-intelligence…
Do you agree with Sebastian Thrun’s anti-MOOC comments?
Sebastian Thrun, founder of the free online learning platform Udacity and visionary of massive open online courses (MOOCs), added to the ... Read more
The intrigue of Coursera
Coursera, the popular massive open online course (MOOC) platform, intrigues, Forbes reports. With over 5 million students served and $85 million raised—both numbers are first among the “MOOC…
MOOCs provide unprecedented insight into how students learn
Stanford's Sebastian Thrun, one of the founders of the massive open online course (MOOC) movement, shook up the education world with a recent interview in which he suggested…
New Datamark White Paper Examines Powerful Role of Search Marketing
Salt Lake City, UT – December 16, 2012 – Datamark, the leader in data-driven driven enrollment marketing, has published its ... Read more