Half of U.S. business schools might be gone by 2020
Richard Lyons, the dean of University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, has a dire forecast for business education, ... Read more
Month: March 2014
Adapt Courseware Research Featured at New Directions in Online Learning Event
Rochester, NY – March 17, 2014 – Adapt Courseware, the provider of comprehensive adaptive multimedia that individualizes each student’s learning ... Read more
MOOC class far exceeding UI hopes
When organizers launched the University of Iowa’s first Massive Open Online Course — better known as a MOOC — they ... Read more
8 ways this technology can save time across all departments
If you are under pressure to keep costs down and productivity up, transitioning to paperless systems can increase efficiency. Paper is not only expensive to purchase, with indirect…
Symplicity Announces New Features in Student Recruitment and Admissions CRM
ARLINGTON, Va., March 17, 2014 – Symplicity today announced the winter update of Ascend, the company’s cloud-based admissions CRM and ... Read more
Some colleges ‘retreat’ from online learning
Campuses that have long been invested in web-based courses are continuing their focus on online classes while others have chosen to “retreat” from the courses, according to the…
Has the number of online programs been exaggerated?
Colleges and universities may be drastically over-reporting the number of online programs at their institutions, a new report concluded. The report, released by ApprovedColleges.com, said that the Integrated…
3 new tools for your 2014 campus arsenal
An influx of new technologies and resources for higher education have either just landed or are about to land, making this spring/summer 2014 one of the busiest seasons…
Google admits mining the data of students through apps for education tools
Google has acknowledged gathering data from millions of student emails through its Apps for Education suite of tools which are ... Read more
Smart Sparrow lands $10m to help teachers make online learning more adaptive and interactive
For most students, learning within the traditional confines of the educational system has been something to be endured, rather than ... Read more