Is Big Data ‘bull****’?
The man who headed up the tech side of President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign took issue with higher education's emphasis on Big Data this week, and it's not…
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Faculty ’empowered’ in university’s MOOC rollout
Faculty members at at a host of universities have blocked massive open online course (MOOC) initiatives, criticized the corporate interests driving MOOC adoption, and raising labor union concerns…
eTextbooks are as polarizing as ever in higher ed
The eTextbook revolution has been coming for quite some time, but if recent national survey results are any indication, acceptance of nontraditional textbooks isn't even close to critical…
6 reasons campus networks must change
The word "legacy," when it comes to discussions of college and university networks, has become a dirty word. "Legacy," in these exchanges, is shorthand for a technological solution…
Learning from MOOC mistakes, one click at a time
Online education is getting a thorough review -- one click at a time for 6.9 million clicks. There are reams of data telling educators how students learn best…
The eCampus News 2014-15 Readers’ Choice Awards
This past spring, we asked readers to give us their top picks for school hardware, software, websites, and services—and more than 1,300 readers responded online. In nominating their…
3 ways to bolster competency in higher education
Converting a student's experience into college credits, whether in the traditional classroom or online, has proven one of the most complex, oft-discussed issues in higher education. Competency based…
Why are colleges getting free Big Data services?
Hoping to mold a generation of college graduates specializing in analyzing data using certain proprietary Big Data software, companies are offering their services for free to campuses nationwide.…
‘You can’t improve what you don’t measure’
The collection, parsing, and analyzing of data is today more prevalent than ever in higher education, and some colleges are using that data to eliminate waiting lines on…
The top 10 ways college students plagiarize
When it comes to plagiarizing, students who use the unethical shortcut seem to be all in: Copying and pasting a research paper word for word is now the…