By Marquis Cabrera, Author at eCampus News

“Independent MOOC” reaches global audience with connected course

October 21, 2014 by By Hayley Goodman

Independent collaboration may sound like an oxymoron, but for George Washington University (GW) this method of MOOC hosting has reached a significant global audience and strengthened relationships with…

IT Leadership

5 lessons for launching your first competency-based degree

October 20, 2014 by By Dian Schaffhauser

Abandon all notions that you can draw from existing degree models for CBE. So say administrators at Purdue University, which, in implementing a new competency-based education (CBE) degree…

Digital Issue Article

New cloud SRS technology has big classroom potential

October 16, 2014 by By Carly Morales, Editorial Intern

Clickers, once the popular ‘it’ classroom tech tool, have come under scrutiny from cash-strapped students required to pay for these sporadically used devices. Now, say students and faculty,…

Digital Issue Article

Vocational ed is making a comeback

October 14, 2014 by By Dan Sommer

When you think about vocational education, you might conjure up a picture of a mechanic or a carpenter. Historically, vocational education, rooted in learning a particular skill set,…

IT Leadership

XPrize focuses on ed tech, but will it succeed or fail?

October 8, 2014 by By Julia Freeland

Exciting news hit the presses early last week—the XPrize is funding its first ed-tech competition. The goal: to handsomely reward the team that develops the best open source,…

Campus Leadership

Chicago offers unprecented incentive for students to go to college

October 6, 2014 by Op-ed from the Chicago Tribune

Every year, hundreds of Chicago Public Schools students earn decent grades, graduate from high school and then ... flounder. Many of them don't get the encouragement to enroll…

IT Leadership

Choosing college: What we don’t know

October 3, 2014 by By Rachel Fishman

Every September, over one million newly minted high school grads load up the family car with their possessions and head to State U or a private liberal arts…

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