By Denny Carter, Managing Editor, Author at eCampus News

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Dennis has covered higher education technology since April 2008, having interviewed some of the most recognized IT pros in U.S. colleges and universities. He is always updating eCampus News with the latest in pressing ed-tech issues, such as the growing i

MOOCs: ‘Cakewalk for some’ and ‘a disaster for others’

February 3, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

The president of Stanford University, a laboratory for massive open online course (MOOC) experimentation, questions the future of MOOCs as key pieces to schools' online education programs. John…

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College degrees via mobile devices?

January 30, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

The definition of class participation has changed for college students at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering. The USC engineering program’s Distance Education Network,…

IT Leadership

The evolution of note taking in the digital classroom

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Pen and paper live on in higher education, as note taking has remained very much analog. Technology rules the classroom and lecture hall, as evidenced by campus research…

IT Leadership

Is K-12 driving university tablet adoption?

February 6, 2014January 28, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Fresno State University (FSU) President Joseph Castro, in unveiling the school's ambitious tablet initiative last week, said K-12 students' familiarity with the interactive mobile devices was a major…

IT Leadership

Big Data could be a $50M boon for one university

January 24, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Ohio State University (OSU) could be the next campus to see a multimillion dollar investment into gathering and analyzing mass amounts of data. Two of the university's oldest…

IT Leadership

MIT and Harvard: Stop focusing on MOOC completion rates

January 23, 2014January 22, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

There were 55 million viewings of recorded lectures, problems attempted, web pages read, and forum comments posted in Harvard and MIT's massive open online courses (MOOCs) since 2012.…

IT Leadership

Confusion lurks behind online course completion rates

February 3, 2014January 21, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Online education experts fear that abysmal massive open online course (MOOC) completion rates could confuse the public about the quality of more traditional web-based classes as in-person college…

IT Leadership

The biggest Big Data developments in higher education

January 20, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Colleges and universities, despite persistent skepticism in some educational circles, are looking toward Big Data to improve learning, reduce costs, bolster efficiency, increase degree completion, and drive critical…

IT Leadership

Some colleges ‘retreat’ from online learning

January 15, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

Higher education's online learning landscape is increasingly polarized, with colleges and universities choosing divergent paths for how to proceed with the nontraditional medium. Campuses that have long been…

IT Leadership

Using zombies to lure MOOC newbies

January 15, 2014January 13, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor

That the most well-known massive open online course (MOOC) platforms are leveraging popular culture to stir up interest in their experimental classes is hardly a secret. Still, the…

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