Month: June 2015

IT Leadership

Lecturing to ghosts: Blurring the face-to-face and online divide

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Are any of us as college professors better than Google as an instructor? Is there anything value-added vis-à-vis your classroom teaching? Might one contribute a unique understanding, or…
IT Leadership

6 ways to improve college math placement–and why it’s critical

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States and colleges are being urged to revise their math placement policies in an effort to help more community college and four-year college students pursue and enter STEM…
IT Leadership

Everything goes in first-of-its-kind science degree

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In the wake of an influential 2011 McKinsey report showing that the U.S. may face a shortfall of 190,000 data scientists by 2018, several prominent universities—including Columbia, Stanford,…
IT Leadership

California Community Colleges overhauls nation’s largest virtual catalog of online courses

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Chancellor Brice W. Harris today announced that the California Community Colleges has upgraded its web-based catalog of online college courses, California Virtual Campus, to make it easier for…