How colleges are finding tomorrow’s prodigies
Battushig Myanganbayar, a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Mongolia, asks me, "Have you ever heard of the 'Freshman 15'?" He's referring to the storied…
eSchool Media staff cover education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to best practices, to lessons learned and new products. First published in March of 1998 as a monthly print and digital newspaper, eSchool Media provides the news and information necessary to help K-20 decision-makers successfully use technology and innovation to transform schools and colleges and achieve their educational goals.
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MOOCs may create a global trail of failed business schools
The Mooc (massive open online course) phenomenon is having a significant impact on higher education – especially business education, the Financial Times reports. In less than two years,…
Trust me: Big data is a huge security risk
When Hadoop started, it had a security problem. The spin from the various Hadoop vendors and proponents tended to be something like, "We see security as a front-end…
NYU supports University of the People, free online education
The University of the People, a tuition-free online university, received accreditation on Feb. 13 from a national agency and will graduate its first class of seven students later…
Harvard’s exit strategy
A recent Free exchange column looked at how online education might affect higher education. Elite institutions should be fine, we wrote, because they product they offer is completely…
No college left behind: Randy Best’s money-making mission to save higher education
Randy Best can’t read, Forbes reports. “I’m acutely dyslexic,” says Best from his office in a glitzy Dallas skyscraper where he ... Read more
The 5 best universities for mobile technology
It might have been easier to pinpoint mobile-friendly colleges in the mid-2000s, before schools of every size invested in support for web-connected mobile devices of every kind pouring…
Viral parody video: Bad for online education?
Online learning advocates have worried for years that the legal and ethical problems surrounding for-profit online colleges would be conflated with more traditional nonprofit university online course offerings.…
What every college should know about Big Data and analytics
Big Data, a complex collection of data sets used to analyze information, can be characterized by the degree of complexity within the data set and how much value…
7 must-have interactive apps for higher-ed academics
Administrators and educators are constantly thinking of new ways technology can help deliver instruction more effectively and enhance the student experience. eCampus News has assembled a list of…