February 2014

The real promise of big data: It’s changing the whole way humans will solve problems

February 10, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

Current “big data” and “API-ification” trends can trace their roots to a definition Kant first coined in the 18th century. In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant drew…

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Universities under threat from MOOC revolution

February 10, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

It’s been called the biggest educational revolution in centuries, an increasingly popular movement that could shape the future of higher learning around the globe. And it could also…

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MOOC watch: Scale and openness disputed

February 10, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

The head of Stanford University, an institution whose academics led the current revolution in online education, has questioned whether MOOCs are able to effectively teach large numbers of…

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Open higher-ed data could be big for policymakers

February 14, 2014February 7, 2014 by By Jake New, Assistant Editor

Federal and state governments need to do far more to increase the accessibility of education data, open data advocates said during an event organized by the congressional eLearning…

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Online education’s ‘wicked’ challenge

February 7, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

One 20,000-student university would have to be constructed somewhere in the world every week for the next dozen years to accommodate the projected 50 million new students expected…

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5 ways open source is transforming tech in 2014

February 18, 2014February 7, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

For the last decade we’ve watched an epic contest unfold between open source and proprietary technology, and 2014 is the year that this dynamic will radically transform, OpenSource.com…

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LinkedIn becoming a marketing tool for colleges

February 7, 2014 by By Jaccii Barmer

LinkedIn University Pages, since it was introduced in August 2013, has become a source of information for high school students deciding which schools to apply to and a…

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University of Leeds Selects Mediasite by Sonic Foundry for Lecture Capture and Video Content Management

February 7, 2014 by Carletta

United Kingdom-based school plans large-scale deployment of Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform MADISON, Wis. — February 06, 2014 — Sonic Foundry, ... Read more

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Online courses alone don’t make for a college education

February 7, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

A college degree matters, and there’s no good substitute for the broad education that a student receives on the way toward earning one. College creates an environment where…

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Big Data today will be the norm tomorrow

February 7, 2014 by ECampus News staff and wire reports

Big data seems like a complex, complicated and potentially expensive investment that leaves many executives pondering whether they should jump aboard this latest and greatest analytics boom or…

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