Universities seek new measures to protect student privacy
During the summer of 2012, the state of South Carolina suffered a massive cyber attack in which 3.9 million South Carolina tax returns and 387,000 credit and debit…
Month: February 2014
University of Utah betting on big data
We search Google billions of times a day, send out millions of tweets an hour and upload 100 hours of YouTube video every minute, so perhaps the mind-boggling…
Online learning is ‘the blackboard of the future’
Children in nurseries will soon be learning through Moocs (Massive Open Online Courses) as the internet revolution changes the face of learning, according to the man who first…
Market values are not MOOC values
If, as the New York Times claimed, 2012 was the Year of the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), then 2013 was the Year of Pushback Against the MOOC,…
Harvard’s online course: a MOOC, sort of
Harvard University will offer one online computer science course in three different ways this semester, allowing students to choose from options that drastically vary in price. The expense…
Online cheating tech leads to huge plagiarism drop
There has been a marked drop in the frequency of plagiarism at colleges and universities that deploy anti-plagiarism technology, just as campuses adopt online academic integrity policies in…
CAE (Council for Aid to Education) to Issue Digital Credentials for Students Using ProExam Vault
Professional Examination Service to Enable CLA+ and CWRA+ Mastery Badges in College and K-12 NEW YORK – Feb. 11, 2014 ... Read more
At Utah Valley University, BYOD is simple, secure, and fast
Utah Valley University (UVU) is the second largest institution of higher learning in Utah with about 33,000 students and 5,000 faculty members and staff. As a key provider…
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) Seeks Learning Resource Publishers’ Feedback
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Dave Gladney Lauren Burke LRMI KEH Communications dgladney@publishers.org lauren@kehcomm.com 267-351-4329 410-975-9638 The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative ... Read more
Big Data on campus to decline dropout rates?
What if colleges could predict whether students would drop out of college before they had a chance to? How helpful would this information be in reducing dropout rates…