May 2016

UMD’s virtual reality students show off final projects

May 25, 2016 by Laura Ascione

For 29 students at the University of Maryland, the Spring 2016 semester ended with a virtual walk in the desert and junkyard demolition derby and a digital waterfall…

Digital Innovation

Is free college really going to work?

August 23, 2017May 25, 2016 by Alana Dunagan

The current hot solution to college affordability: make it free. My colleagues at the Christensen Institute have written fairly extensively on our views on “free college” proposals. Our…

Campus Leadership

U. Iowa investigating cheating among online students

May 24, 2016 by Vanessa Miller, The Gazette

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Campus Leadership

Data courses could include virtual reality

May 23, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

University of Wisconsin (UW) data science students could soon don virtual reality headsets to navigate and interpret data. A UW instructional designer says looking at Big Data in…

Microcredentials

New trend sees higher ed bootcamps go 2.0

May 23, 2016 by Meris Stansbury

It seems that coding bootcamps are so 2015. For students eager to get into a burgeoning field that pays well, data science bootcamps promise to be the new…

Campus Leadership

4 European higher education trends that could benefit the U.S.

May 20, 2016 by Ronald Bethke

According to a new report from the American Council on Education (ACE), there are unique new opportunities as well as challenges for increased innovative higher education collaboration between…

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