New trend: Students enrolling with no intention of graduating
‘Skill builder’ students are enrolling in college, but not for the degree Kevin Floerke has been down this road before. ... Read more
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3 Friday Shortcuts
Welcome to Friday Shortcuts, a round-up of the ed-tech news that didn't make it onto the front page of eCampus News this week. 1. Former Yale president heads…
City aims to take your college’s most tech innovative
In what could be considered an ingenious idea by any city looking to bolster the local economy, provide fresh perspective to the area, and fulfill a promise to…
Is this the Netflix for student college searches?
Two organizations have joined forces to answer important questions related to how search, discovery and recommendation online are affecting student college choices. Specifically, both organizations will research the…
19 leaders emerge in new degree programs
The Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) has selected 19 colleges and universities to address shared challenges to designing and developing competency-based degree programs and related business models. This initial…
How to battle the dark side of for-profit universities
When Hannah Benbow ran into problems with the for-profit college she attended, she turned to the federal government for help. Benbow, 24, wrote to the U.S. Department of…
These online degrees are on the rise
As demand for medical services booms, odds are increasing that your next visit to the doctor will mean meeting a specialized nurse — one who may have earned…
‘MOOCs are just one of the tools we have’
More than 210,000 people signed up when the University of Pittsburgh offered its first five massive open online courses last year. Though that was more than 11 times…
UCLA professor uncertain on engineering MOOCs
Behzad Razavi, a veteran professor of comms chip design, has announced that he will offer a massive open online course (MOOC) on basic circuit theory later this year,…
Foundation gives $3 million to Stanford for ‘big data’ initiative
The Li Ka Shing Foundation has provided a $3 million planning grant to the Stanford University School of Medicine for a new initiative to explore ways of harnessing…