February 2014

Carnegie looks to improve mobile with Big Data

February 13, 2014 by By Peter Sclafani

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Yahoo announced Feb. 12 a five-year, $10 million partnership granting university researchers access to Yahoo’s real-time data services to create better user experiences…

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Prepfoleo Launches Online Network of Academic and Career Resources

February 13, 2014 by Carletta

Newark, N.J. (Feb. 12, 2014) – As parents seek assistance in providing their children with the right educational materials, and ... Read more

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Chancellor: ‘Open SUNY’ online learning will redefine access to degrees

February 13, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher doubled down on SUNY's commitment to online learning in her annual "State of the University" address Tuesday, Record Online reports. While acknowledging online learning is…

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Massive open online forces

February 13, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

Universities have not changed much since students first gathered in Oxford and Bologna in the 11th century, The Economist reports. Teaching has been constrained by technology. Until recently…

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Professors: Benefits of MOOCs outweigh risks at Cornell

February 13, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

During a University Faculty Senate Meeting held in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium on Wednesday, professors debated the benefits and financial concerns associated with expanding Cornell’s current MOOC…

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Students earn online degrees … retroactively

February 13, 2014 by From staff and wire reports

Community college students who transferred to Connecticut’s four-year online college program before completing their associate’s degree could be eligible to receive the degrees retroactively.

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Without educator support, ‘there is no hope’ for MOOCs

February 19, 2014February 12, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), despite enthusiastic support from many educational higher-ups, won't gain widespread acceptance until teachers and professors embrace the experimental classes as a viable educational…

Around the Web

No college left behind: Randy Best’s money-making mission to save higher education

February 12, 2014February 12, 2014 by ECampus News Staff

Randy Best can’t read, Forbes reports. “I’m acutely dyslexic,” says Best from his office in a glitzy Dallas skyscraper where he ... Read more

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A colonial-style massive open online course

February 12, 2014February 12, 2014 by From staff and wire reports

The College of William and Mary and Colonial Williamsburg have agreed to pool resources to attempt to create an online college-level history course on the American Revolution and…

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Unicon Expands Identity and Access Management Practice by Welcoming Three New IAM Experts

February 12, 2014 by Carletta

Collective Experience includes the Central Authentication Service (CAS), Shibboleth, and OpenRegistry Gilbert, AZ – February 12, 2014— Unicon, Inc., a ... Read more

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