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The case for centralized admissions in graduate medical education
Centralized admissions offers real equity and efficiency gains, but needs enough flexibility to respect programs’ specialty-specific rules and autonomy
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Colleges and universities often say they help students develop the skills needed for an enriched life and provide services that benefit the community; but a recent trend in…
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A bogged down campus network could be an insurmountable competitive disadvantage for colleges and universities as they compete for prospective students. Six in 10 college students identified a…
Which online courses are women taking?
While the average online college student is a woman in her early 30s, the massive open online course (MOOC) landscape has been dominated by men since the courses…
5 important YouTube videos for IT
IT play an integral role in the university experience. However, in our rapidly changing and interconnected world, what resources and strategies do IT personnel need to stay ahead?…
Is this the “dark horse” of online education?
“Disruptive innovation” is a catchphrase making the rounds in higher education circles, and is often applied liberally to many recent trends, such as MOOCs and blended learning. But…
Google Drive’s new changes could improve classroom collaboration
In case you haven’t noticed the recent changes already, it's well worth pointing out that Google is making some interesting changes to their Google Drive service. At the…
3 ways online courses could become more like iTunes
Modularization is hardly a mainstream concept in online education today, but if colleges and universities follow suggestions laid out by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) task force,…
Is Big Data ‘bull****’?
The man who headed up the tech side of President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign took issue with higher education's emphasis on Big Data this week, and it's not…
8 tips for creating video in online learning
