eCampus News top 5 most popular stories in 2013
2013 has been a great year for eCampus News. Our editorial team and guest contributors have produced the very best coverage in technology innovation in higher education. Whether…
Month: January 2014
Five steps to master Big Data and predictive analytics in 2014
As recently as the past two years, one of the seminal issues regarding Big Data was storage, especially with respect to the exponential growth and size of unstructured…
Code Watch: MOOCs’ final grade: Inconclusive
I've recently gone back to college. Well, not exactly, but I have been attending a single class via a massive open online course (MOOC). The course I'm taking…
Why do professors spend their precious time in teaching MOOCs when they are not getting paid for that?
Some universities count Coursera teaching toward regular teaching obligations. In other words, the university pays the teacher to teach on Coursera. Why do this? To officially be a…
Big Data shrinks to grow
What’s next for Big Data? Maybe a little thinning down of the industry and a little more focus, The New York Times reports. In fact, it may be…
2013 in MOOCs: Which event best defined the quest to solve education?
As we say goodbye to 2013, the year after The Year of the MOOC, I remain unable to adequately define the acronym that graces this blog’s header. This…
White House advisers push for accreditation flexibility
Online college degrees won't become more commonplace unless and until state agencies and accreditation organizations pledge to be more flexible in defining what counts as a credit-bearing course,…
Big Data analytics: Descriptive vs. predictive vs. prescriptive
The majority of raw data, particularly big data, doesn't offer a lot of value in its unprocessed state. Of course, by applying the right set of tools, we…
MOOCs: Inflated expectations, early disappointments
Massive open online courses–online platforms offering courses and educational materials to very large numbers of people–captured our imagination in the Fall of 2011 when, unexpectedly, a free online…
Lessons from the CEO of the first ever MOOC
There has been much press for the massive open online courses or MOOCs, including in my series of interviews to date with Sebastian Thrun and Daphne Koller, CEOs…