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How USF is breaking down information silos and igniting student success
The student success movement at USF is built on the simple, fundamental belief that every student will succeed
Faculty get a new, copyright-flexible digital media backpack
Digital media company VideoBlocks has begun a service for higher education to, simply put, provide accessible creative tools for students and faculty without the traditional worries over quality…
Stanford asks its students to tackle the biggest education challenges
Buoyed by the idea that students can collaborate and apply knowledge to address learning problems in education, Stanford's Learning, Design and Technology (LDT) Program in the university's Graduate…
5 considerations to realize the full potential of campus IT
I’m a traveling man so I have the luxury of hearing views from institutions across North America on technology in education. Soon I’ll be attending two higher education…
Faculty: Why should we collaborate with campus librarians?
A new survey on campus libraries has revealed that, despite their many benefits, greater collaboration and communication are needed between librarians and faculty in order to maximize their…
University takes 4 Steve Jobs steps to engage students
When students have negative interactions with a school’s online systems, it hurts the brand and the bottom line—problems that are all too common in higher education. Luckily, there’s…
5 gray areas of higher education’s reinvention
eTextbook engagement analytics, cloud systems, career training programs, MOOCs, flipped learning, virtual worlds, game-based instruction…the list could continue for pages. And while institutions emphatically communicate that many of…
Critics question federal aid for MOOCs, boot camps
A new program from the U.S. Department of Education would open up access to federal aid for partnerships between colleges and universities and nontraditional education providers such as…
Campuses go online for active shooter training
In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College—and additional slayings on campuses in Texas and Arizona in the days after—university administrators are struggling to square…
3 ways technology is democratizing video for course learning
