Study: Campuses lack mobile and BYOD policies, despite concerns
Three quarters of university chief information officers say that the importance of mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) has ... Read more
Year: 2013
Sycamore Education Expands Into 40 Countries
Cloud-Based Student Information System Experiences Rapid International Growth June 27th, 2013 – Sycamore Education, a leading provider of online school ... Read more
Missouri’s support for private online university is questioned
It may seem odd that a state with no shortage of public colleges is urging its citizens to consider a private school. Yet that’s exactly what Missouri is…
Tradition will prevail over online offerings
Everybody is talking about Moocs and how global education is about to be irremediably transformed by the emergence and easy availability of these massive open online courses, the…
Engineers: this is how and why you need a free ‘big data’ education
I’ve been a systems engineer and database administrator for fifteen years now, and it’s fair to say that there have been more than a few large-scale shifts in…
News Corp.’s Amplify is latest with a MOOC for the high school crowd
High school kids across the country are getting the chance to make potentially thousands of new Facebook friends, Gigaom reports.
Sharing 30 songs online cost this college student $675,000
Like millions of others, Joel Tenenbaum illegally shared music on the Internet in college. And like thousands of others, he was caught by the recording industry, which asked…
Platform helps drive conversation among thousands of MOOC students
MindMixer, a platform for online community engagement, was used during a recently-concluded Coursera MOOC.
eXplorance and Desire2Learn Integrate Course Evaluation into LMS
The integration provides Desire2Learn clients with access to course evaluations, surveys, and feedback analytics directly from the learning suite Montreal, ... Read more
Plan for technology costs when saving for college
Textbooks may soon be as outdated as the phrase "Kodak moment." That's how Jeff Livingston, a vice president with McGraw-Hill Education, sees it, U.S. News reports.