June 2015

Large state university rolls out new engagement tool

June 11, 2015 by Laura Ascione

The Ohio State University is rolling out Top Hat campus wide as the selected classroom engagement system to nearly 65,000 students and 7,000 faculty members. The rollout started…

IT Leadership

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

June 12, 2015June 11, 2015 by By Carla Bluhm and Kevin Mobbs

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

June 10, 2015 by By Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

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

Revealing statistics highlight campus video boom

June 10, 2015 by Laura Ascione

Video is becoming more pervasive in lecture halls across the nation, with 67 percent of respondents in a recent survey indicating that video is used in student assignments.…

IT Leadership

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

June 10, 2015June 9, 2015 by By Andrew Barbour

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

New cost calculator aims to be the “Kayak.com” of college prices

June 9, 2015 by Meris Stansbury

Hailed as one of CNNMoney’s best new money ideas of 2014, College Abacus seeks to increase transparency in the college tuition market by allowing families to access the…

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

June 9, 2015 by Meris Stansbury

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…

Campus Leadership

Digital leadership training offered for community college students

June 8, 2015 by Laura Ascione

Discovery Education encouraged students in the UK's Uckfield Community Technology College (UCTC) to take ownership of their learning by leading a professional development event, where pupils became accredited…

IT Leadership

International competition targets immersive experiences

June 8, 2015 by Laura Ascione

The Immersive Education Initiative today announced the first in a series of international "builder" tournaments during which students and schools compete against one another to build immersive experiences,…

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

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

Revealing statistics highlight campus video boom

New cost calculator aims to be the “Kayak.com” of college prices

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

Digital leadership training offered for community college students

International competition targets immersive experiences

Gale Digital Scholar Lab Expands to Help Students Present and Share Digital Humanities Research

APM Steam Offers Unparalleled Heat Exchanger Assessment and Testing Services for Colleges and Universities

College of Charleston Launches Two New Schools

Cyber Attacks on Colleges and Universities: How Businesses Help Safeguard Higher Education from Cyber Threats

Laramie County Community College to Unveil New SmartCIM 4.0 from Intelitek

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