3 cheap ways to amp up campus A/V
Splurging on top-flight audio-video (A/V) equipment has never been an easy sell in higher education, but now more than ever, campus A/V officials are striving to justify needed…
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An exclusive app you can’t afford to miss
The campus emergency app designed to simplify and improve students' crisis response is officially no longer higher education's best kept secret. In Case of Crisis, which eCampus News…
What’s hogging bandwidth on college campuses?
Bandwidth demands have been at critical levels for years on college campuses of every size, and the ubiquity of tablets has only complicated matters for higher education IT…
The best and worst states for online learning
All states were not created equal in online learning, according to national statistics charting large disparities between the number of college students taking web-based classes across the country.
The technology that prevents ‘hotbeds of fraud’ in higher ed
Fraud in test taking and student loans can threaten the very existence of online colleges and universities -- a fact that hasn't been lost on chief information officers…
Game-changing technology reveals student job prospects
Everything can be quantified, measured, and analyzed, and a college student's job prospects are no different. Around 8.5 percent of recent college graduates are unemployed. Perhaps more troubling,…
3 hurdles for online education and why they matter
For all of its growth, popularity, and improvement over the past decade, a few challenges persist for online courses in higher education. Online learning saw massive growth in…
The danger of passwords and PINs in online education
Authentication of web-based exams is a foundational piece of online education's legitimacy, as many in ed-tech would tell you, and passwords and personal identification numbers are falling short.…
‘Brogrammers,’ ‘hogrammers,’ and the gender gap
The rise of the brash, stylish, computer-geek-turned-cool-guy known simply as a “brogrammer” among popular technology startups threatens to further alienate women from enrolling in computer science courses, where…
Personalizing 1.2 million communications with students? No sweat
Almost any institution can send an eMail blast that reaches tens of thousands of perspective college students. It's the schools that can put the pivotal personal touch on…