How to save lives with social media
Dallas, Texas -- The night before Byron Piatt was scheduled to speak about campus emergencies at the 2014 ACUTA conference here, his campus was experiencing an emergency of…
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- Are ed-tech startups a bubble that’s ready to burst? - January 1, 2015
- Are MOOCs really dead? - August 28, 2014
Employers like MOOCs — if they know what one is
Employers are fans of massive open online courses (MOOCs), according to a new study by researchers at Duke University and RTI International. But many first had to have…
Has online learning made the lecture hall obsolete?
College by radio was a failure. College by television was a failure. Now, college by internet. Will it be different this time? That's the question ABC News' John…
The shocking politics of online learning
Parties both support online learning, just different forms, and for different reasons A Republican governor and a Democratic governor in ... Read more
The wifi challenge campuses dread
Dallas, Texas -- Massive college sporting events like the NCAA tournament -- which concludes here with the Final Four this week -- can be a strain on campus…
Why online courses have low retention rates-and how to boost them
Academic leaders are notably more worried about retention rates in online courses now than they were a decade ago. Forty-one percent of chief academic officers say they agree…
Educators increasingly wary of online course retention
Forty-one percent of chief academic officers said they agreed that retaining students was a greater problem for online courses than for face-to-face classes. Only 28 percent of respondents…
Students still prefer print textbooks over digital
Study suggests college students are slow to adopt eTextbooks College students still prefer print textbooks over digital textbooks, partially because ... Read more
Google Glass journalism course coming to USC
A new course to be taught at the University of Southern California will ask students to find ways for journalists take advantage of Google Glass. The course, which…
University of Maryland faces more cybersecurity woes
The University of Maryland alerted administrators last week that someone hacked into its computer network and accessed the personal data of a senior university official. The "cyber-intrusion," as…