Facebook and edX are collaborating to give free access to online education to students in Rwanda through the SocialEDU initiative, Facebook announced Monday. SocialEDU will incorporate aspects of…
On Monday, Cornell launched its first Massive Open Online Course — ASTRO2290x: Relativity and Astrophysics — for several hundred viewers, The Cornell Daily Sun reports. Cornell initially announced…
If you’re accepted to Harvard Business School, you can look forward to learning alongside the eggheads and overachievers deemed worthy by the school’s admissions office, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.…
Recent articles about Pandora’s and Netflix’s use of big data illustrate why government IT managers should not just focus on data management, data collection and even big data…
Sensitive personal information of 146,000 students and recent graduates at Indiana University -- including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers – may have been exposed after the data…
Helix Education (previously Datamark), a world class provider of student lifecycle technologies and services, has expanded its executive committee to ... Read more
Walk around any college campus today and, more than likely, you’ll see students heads down in their studies. What’s different about today’s campuses vs. those just a few…
Let me start on a humorous note that surfaced on Facebook recently: "Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do…
The University of Houston (UH) System will offer two massive open online courses (MOOCs) designed to help high school students prepare for the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP)…