By Carly Morales, Editorial Intern, Author at eCampus News

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,…

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…

IT Leadership

Tech industry looks for students who are…homeless?

October 2, 2014 by Jason Shueh

The Learning Shelter began as an idea -- to provide those in need with tech tools, mentors and coaching. And it turned into a “what if?” -- a…

IT Leadership

4 keys to survival in a rapidly changing ed-tech market

October 2, 2014 by By Connor Gray

When Borders Books opened in Ann Arbor, Mich., more than 40 years ago, the company was ahead of its time. The Borders brothers had created an inventory system…

IT Leadership

Wikipedia grows up on college campuses

September 29, 2014 by By Bruce Maiman, @Maimzini

A trusted bromide in academia is that you become a better student when you become a teacher. Something like that is happening at Wikipedia. The internet encyclopedia has…

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