Some profs concerned with Coursera’s move into China
Last month, Coursera, a pioneer of massive open online courses, announced that it would begin partnering with a major Chinese internet company, opening the door to MOOCs for…
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The race is on to segment for MOOCs: To the victor go the spoils
MOOCs have emerged as a disruptive force in ‘traditional’ higher education. A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course allowing unlimited student enrollment through the internet, Chicago Now…
What is ‘Big Data,’ anyway?
“Big data”—the large data sets that can be managed and analyzed only by increasingly powerful and sophisticated tools—is an expansive and rapidly evolving field. For now, I’m not…
Is social media ruining your university experience?
Whether it’s adding your new flatmates on Facebook, creating a LinkedIn profile in pre-graduation panic or receiving a disheartening 3/10 on "Rate Your Shag", all students’ experience of…
MOOC excuse beats ‘dog ate my homework’
Well, it finally happened: Despite having two chances on a multiple-choice question, I spoiled my perfect score in the massive open online course I'm taking from the University…
New York campuses share information technology services
Two upstate State University of New York campuses have launched a program to share information technology services and facilities. The University at Albany and Hudson Valley Community College…
Online college marketplace clicks with students
Two years ago, when Kathleen Ward graduated from Texas Christian University and moved to Dallas to start her career, she needed furniture for her new
apartment, FW Business…
Purdue cautiously moving ahead with MOOCs
The development of Massive Open Online Courses – or MOOCs – continues at Purdue, WBAA reports. The university requested proposals from professors earlier this year to begin teaching…
How social media privacy settings could affect your future
In an effort to win back its teenage audience, Facebook made a major change last week to its privacy policy, The Huffington Post reports. Teenagers have been rapidly…
Big Data brain drain
Big data is everywhere in science today, opening new insights in fields from astrophysics to zoology, Science Careers reports. For all its promise, though, big data also poses…