Levine: UH has dropped recruits for inappropriate remarks made on social media
Prospective recruits: Be careful what you tweet, The Houston Chronicle reports.
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The ABCs of MOOCs: what it’s like to enroll
Esther Duflo, one of the two superstar MIT economists teaching my massive open online course (MOOC) on global poverty, is a fast-talking French woman with whom I could…
Social media putting college freshmen at ease
Celestina Encinia is comfortable with the idea of starting her freshman year of college later this month at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, The Houston Chronicle reports.
MOOCs are toast or at least should be
Is it time yet to declare massive open online courses or MOOCs an academic failure? The ongoing revelations about poor test results, high dropout rates and disgruntled university…
When MOOCs profit, who pays?
MOOCs - massive open online courses - have been heralded as inaugurating an inevitable transformation in higher education, Aljazeera reports.
Polish University taps IBM Big Data tools to bring Middle Age manuscripts to the public
IBM and the Wroclaw University Library in Poland announced a national scientific project to preserve and digitize nearly 800,000 pages of distinctive European manuscripts, books, and maps dating…
Wesley College publishes student records online
Wesley College mistakenly published records online including test scores, grades and critiques of more than 100 students, WBOC reports.
UC Berkeley seeks to expand security program to combat cyberattacks
Amid the increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks faced by universities, UC Berkeley is doubling its efforts and allying with other UC campuses to address security risks, The Daily Californian reports.
Personal data on 72,000 staff taken in University of Delaware hack
The University of Delaware (UD) has joined the long line of recent data breach victims, with a compromised university system yielding personal information on 72,000 past and present…
A culture of cheating in online classes
We are in the midst of a heated public debate over the benefits of online education, the Daily News reports.