The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind
Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting news and thought-provoking developments from the past week. I can’t fit all of this week's news stories here, though,…
Month: September 2016
5 tools to leverage augmented reality
It's fair to say that augmented reality has moved from a cool technology that might be neat for students to try to a credible teaching tool that fits…
Underground university: Bay Area teachers beam secret online classes to Iran
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Educate to Career releases 2017 ETC College Rankings Index
Educate to Career, Inc. (ETC), a California-based nonprofit, announces the release of its 2017 ETC College Rankings Index. Educate To Career offers educational attainment data to academia and…
Research: Students value college, but not for the reasons you’d think
With the cost of a college education uppermost in the minds of students and their parents, the actual value of college, and even how you might begin to…
IT pros: Funding is still our biggest hurdle
More than half (52 percent) of higher education IT professionals said funding or budget constraints are a top difficulty when it comes to managing IT operations, according to…
Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments
Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can…
Does your faculty actually know what OER are?
Open educational resources (OER) are not quite the driving force that some advocates might believe, due in large part to the effort required to locate and evaluate them,…
University of Utah to offer Unity Certification to game design students
Unity Technologies, a global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games and experiences, announced a new partnership ... Read more
Yale consolidates 10K hours of online videos
Panopto announced that its video platform has been selected by Yale University for campus-wide video content management, recording, and streaming. ... Read more