With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
Big Data has become an all encompassing, somewhat sprawling term. Seemingly, it has as many definitions as it does applications, Forbes reports. So what is Big Data, exactly,…
My heart is knocking loudly against my chest, and silence rings in my ears. It's always the same. Exams bring me a dry mouth, the shakes and vomit-inducing…
Bad leadership is like the proverbial iceberg that sunk the Titanic — it doesn’t matter how strong the ship is if it’s being steered into disaster, Venture Beat…
In January, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas plans to deploy Maverick, a visualization and data analytics resource for the open science and engineering…
Colleges have been hit with a surge in applications from Romanians and Bulgarians wanting taxpayer-funded loans and grants to study in this country, the Daily Mail reports. More…
Many prominent schools, such as MIT, are investing significant resources in MOOCs; however, the viability and success of MOOCs will be ultimately be determined by the legitimacy of…
Silicon Valley's Foothill-De Anza Community College District won a $16.9 million state grant to establish a new state-wide online education program aimed at increasing graduation rates, the Silicon…
Distance learning — especially given the advances of high definition video conferencing — has long been touted as a way to augment conventional educational techniques, Wired reports. Increasingly,…
Well-established universities and colleges like Harvard, Stanford and University of Cape Town are participating in the Massive Open Online course (MOOCs) movement. Despite the exponential growth of MOOC…
