Ellucian® Acquires CampusIT to Accelerate Delivery of New Solutions
FAIRFAX, Va. – January 20, 2014 – Ellucian® is pleased to announce the acquisition of CampusIT, a provider of student ... Read more
Month: January 2014
Can online education grow up?
First Stanford, then Google, then multimillion-dollar startup. Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng has put together an impressive resumé in Silicon Valley, Upstart reports. Now the 37-year-old Stanford computer science…
Are MOOCs the best chance we have to satisfy a global thirst for education?
"There are certainly MOOC junkies, who take them for no other reason than they're free and they like hanging out," grins Dr Ben Brabon of Edgehill university, whose…
CU-Boulder learning its own lessons from online teaching
For the first three weeks of teaching a massive open online course—MOOC—about comic books and graphic novels, William Kuskin felt as disconnected from his thousands of students as…
Big Data 101: Myths and realities
Massive amounts of data are generated by IT systems these days. Some of this is carefully tracked and analysed by well-defined reporting systems (finance and payment information, for…
Will ed-tech have a role in the White House’s college access push?
President Barack Obama invited nearly 150 universities, nonprofit, and business leaders to the White House Jan. 17 for a summit devoted to finding ways of improving college access…
MOOCs: Cheating as learning
I've participated in many MOOCs (I've lost count). Many of them I felt were xMOOCs but I wasn't so comfortable with my first MOOC experience which I thought…
Blackmagic Design Announces New Low Price for SmartView Duo
Fremont, CA – January 16, 2014 – Blackmagic Design today announced a new lower price on its popular dual rack ... Read more
ISE Line-up To Feature Presentation by FSR’s Jon Melchin
Melchin to Share Expert Insight on Benefits of Building Information Modeling Woodland Park, NJ – Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), the ... Read more
No room for sloppiness in online classroom
When your classroom is a global one, filled with well-informed online learners, they don’t cut you much slack, The Conversation reports. Hundreds of people pore over every element…