At Discovery, K-12 education’s lessons for community colleges
In a room on the ground level of Discovery Communications, 50 community college leaders stomped their feet and shook their seats and tables.
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San Jose State, Udacity ‘pausing’ for-credit MOOC partnership
San Jose State and massive open online course (MOOC) platform Udacity are “pausing” their much-touted partnership until next spring, throwing a potential wrench in the state of California’s…
Students, faculty want more support for eTextbooks
Faculty are struggling to find the time and support to actually adopt eTextbooks in the classroom, according to a new study released by the Educause Center for Analysis…
New MOOC gives away Warren Buffett’s sister’s money
Doris Buffett is letting the students who are taking a new massive open online course (MOOC) about philanthropy decide what to do with $100,000 of her money.
British company improves student engagement online
A British company called BlikBook is aiming to improve online engagement in higher education has just raised more than €1 million in funding and is eyeing the United…
UC Irvine researchers create Big Data management tool
Researchers in California are hoping they can help users manage Big Data with their new technology called AsterixDB.
MOOC platform Coursera raises $43 million in funding
Several investors have enough faith in MOOCs that they have just given more than $40-million to MOOC platform Coursera.
Carnegie Mellon company to offer courseware customizable with learning analytics
Acrobatiq will offer customizable online courseware, consulting services and learning analytics products to educators. The company will create new courses to run with Open Learning Initiative as well…
Maharashtra Government mulls ban on mobiles in colleges, varsity campus
Maharashtra Government has sought views of principals and teachers on a proposal seeking ban on using camera mobile phones in colleges and university campuses across the state to…
Pearson creates searchable catalog of open educational resources
The publishing and education giant Pearson has wrangled up nearly 700,000 open educational resources into an easily searchable catalog through its OpenClass Exchange platform.