December 2013

Data mining exposes embarrassing problems for massive open online courses

December 18, 2013 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

It wasn’t so long ago that the excitement surrounding online education reached fever pitch, MIT Technology Review reports. Various researchers offering free online versions of their university classes…

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MOOCs: an opportunity for professors, or grave threat?

December 19, 2013December 17, 2013 by From staff and wire reports

In October 2012, some 40,000 students from around the world enrolled in professor Al Filreis’ online course about modern and contemporary American poetry. A couple of them, who…

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3 things colleges should consider when investing in Big Data

December 17, 2013 by By Michael Sharnoff, Associate Online Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/michael_esm' target='_blank'>@Michael_eSM</a>

What criteria should colleges look at when investing in Big Data? Share by commenting on this article and connecting with us on Twitter at @ecampusnews.

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What MOOCs can’t teach

December 17, 2013 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

"I like to think of education as giving people superpowers." With this metaphor, Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng summed up the purpose of MOOCs, or massive open online courses,…

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Online courses: high hopes, trimmed

December 17, 2013 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

The idea of a remote course that will “educate” thousands or hundreds of thousands of students is something only a venture capitalist could dream up, The New York…

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What to do with a big idea?

December 17, 2013 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

"Watch out for what you wish for," the old Chinese proverb, comes to mind as we sort our way through our plans for our upcoming MOOC, "What's Your…

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Faculty ‘like’ social media, but not yet in class

December 17, 2013 by By Jake New, Assistant Editor

University faculty members are increasingly using social media in their professional and personal lives, even as they continue to cast a suspicious gaze toward students using those same…

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edX job placement experiment reveals MOOC resistance

December 16, 2013 by By Jake New, Assistant Editor

Massive open online course (MOOC) provider Udacity announced In November that it would turn its focus away from traditional colleges and universities and toward more vocational training. This…

Data mining exposes embarrassing problems for massive open online courses

Top 10 ed-tech stories of 2013, No. 10: Digital textbooks

MOOCs: an opportunity for professors, or grave threat?

3 things colleges should consider when investing in Big Data

What MOOCs can’t teach

Online courses: high hopes, trimmed

What to do with a big idea?

Faculty ‘like’ social media, but not yet in class

edX job placement experiment reveals MOOC resistance

Gale Digital Scholar Lab Expands to Help Students Present and Share Digital Humanities Research

APM Steam Offers Unparalleled Heat Exchanger Assessment and Testing Services for Colleges and Universities

College of Charleston Launches Two New Schools

Cyber Attacks on Colleges and Universities: How Businesses Help Safeguard Higher Education from Cyber Threats

Laramie County Community College to Unveil New SmartCIM 4.0 from Intelitek

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