Share Economy Comes to Education: Notes from the MOOCs Experiment
“When I first blogged about MOOCs about a year ago, they were causing significant consternation about the fate of education,” ... Read more
Month: April 2014
Online learning innovation hub to advance campus technology practices
A new online learning innovation hub that aims to spur the development and use of online and blended learning approaches ... Read more
W.H. official: More tech key to education
Innovation has been slow to reach classrooms across America in part because the federal government spends very little to support ... Read more
Cengage Learning Digital Products Named as Education and Content Finalists for SIIA 2014 CODiE Awards
MindTap, myNGconnect, Health Care Career Exploration Learning Lab and Questia earn prestigious industry recognition in six CODiE categories Stamford, CT ... Read more
Sonic Foundry Announces Finalists in the 10th Annual Enterprise Video Awards
Award program recognizes Mediasite users for revolutionizing video in their organizations MADISON, Wis. — April 09, 2014 — Sonic Foundry, ... Read more
Adapt Courseware Joins Academic Innovators at Sloan-C ET4OL to Explore Competency-Based, Adaptive Learning
Las Vegas, NV and Dallas, TX – April 8, 2014 – Adapt Courseware, the provider of comprehensive adaptive multimedia that ... Read more
Are campuses really mobile ready? And what does that mean?
It’s not news to say that the IT demands placed on campuses across the country are skyrocketing, thanks to student, and administrator, need for mobile devices and communications…
New open-source strategy would drop textbook costs to $0
Holding a whiteboard, the University of Maryland-College Park students scrawled their complaints and posed for a picture. “My name is Justin and I spent $114 on ONE textbook,”…
5 technology trends poised to rock higher education
Trends like “devices,” “MOOCs,” and “Twitter,” are making the rounds in higher education, but what do these trends means for admin and students, and how are they affecting…
Online learning: tutors at your fingertips
The rich have long been able to whisk their children’s private tutors on to a yacht in Monaco, a jet ... Read more